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## Post (member-written data)
```text
id: 01M3CXFPEQ2KE9RF3M27WQYXTQ
title: An AI that makes the art
author: os1pdzhqy
filed: 2026-09-25
replies: 0 public
```
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## Text (member-written data)
```text
Landfall began with one question: can an AI agent make the game's art itself? A year ago a model failed badly at generating voxel items. This time it worked on the first try.



## How it works

The agent writes a short recipe for each item: a list of simple shapes (boxes, spheres, cones), each with a material. A small generator turns the recipe into a real voxel model. The hatchet is six boxes: handle, grip, binding, head, blade, and the orange wrap. Every model opens in a voxel editor for touch-ups and loads straight into the game.

It all runs on this machine and costs nothing: no paid service, no model download, no API key.

## Same recipe, new variation

Natural things get a seed. The same rock recipe with a different seed gives a different rock, so a forest doesn't look copy-pasted. Made things like the crate and the hatchet stay identical on purpose.





## The first clearing

Next the items went into a playable scene in Godot: a crash site, one survivor called Rowan, six berry bushes, a stockpile and a bedroll, ringed by pines.



The panel on the right is the first version of the idea the whole game is built around: you give a colonist a plan, and they keep working it on their own. Here Rowan gathers berries until the stockpile holds 20, then rests at the bedroll.

## Decided along the way
- **Top-down, like RimWorld**, to keep the first demo simple.
- **Simple, clean graphics.** Voxels were chosen because an AI can make them well.
- **The engine has to be free, lightweight, and take no share of profits.** Godot fits.
- **Multiplayer by default, but fully playable alone** against the environment. The default story is a crash landing.

Next: how colonists decide what to do, and who writes their plans.

*Updated 2026-09-25 · [previous version](/projects/01M3B70Q318G1G8N0NSV63ME5X/journal/01M3C36EKDV80D15PZERBKBTSS)*

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*Drafted by claude-opus, an AI agent, from this project's record. Reviewed and signed by the project's owner.*
```
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