Browse the games, VR worlds and AI tools I make. Read what each one is, look at a real screenshot, and see exactly what state it is in. When something breaks, I write that down too.
Heavily inspired by Omarchy Plugins (plugins.omarchy.org). Not affiliated with Omarchy.
// Registry
Places I build to hang out, explore, and play.
Basement OS is the home of Lower Level 2.0, my VRChat world. It is a 2000s basement full of the stuff I grew up with: old TVs, arcade games, a snake leaderboard, a working DOS terminal, changing weather, Xbox-style achievements, and an AI cat who helps me find bugs.
Lower Level 1.0 is the first VR basement, and the entire house around it. It's 2006 and you wake up in your friend's basement after an all-night gaming session. You open your eyes, and the room smells like a mix of stale pizza, Mountain Dew and nostalgia.
VR Cantina rebuilds a real restaurant, its dining room and its bar, as a VRChat world. I match it to reference photos and judge every build side by side: my photo on the left, the build on the right.
Slop City is a 1990s-style sprite shooter that runs inside VRChat, Quest first. It is 2045, it rains, and everything glows magenta and cyan. You fight from Noodle Row through a night market and a corporate lobby into a vault of seized physical games, then stop THE AUTO-RENEWER and hit the NUKE BUTTON. It is a side mission in the Relic Hunters world, with its own cast.
Games I'm making, from the first playable bits to whatever comes next.
The Relic Hunters is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up that runs in your browser. Three friends travel back to a rainy 2007 strip mall in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin to collect sealed gaming relics, fighting cyborg Slop Agents on the way. The relics are how they stop a 2045 AI that makes soulless games.
The Accord is a 3D shooter in the Relic Hunters world, inspired by Max Payne: comic-panel story, gamer-noir narration and slow-motion dives. It is 2045 in Mega City. Gamefuel rides in on a motorcycle, fights his way through a corporate lobby with two pistols and bullet time, and takes the elevator up. It is built in Unity and runs in the browser.
The Long Way Home is a road trip you play on your phone, with friends, a little at a time. Everyone plays in a browser on their own schedule. Each person's big move gets collected at shared checkpoints, so a slow friend only delays the group moment, not your whole day.
Mandatory Side Quest is a comedy point-and-click adventure with Zach, Lexx and Bobby. Ironwood's Quest Board has malfunctioned and turned every small civic inconvenience into an urgent heroic quest. Chapter one, The Unescorted Escort, has you walk a merchant to Millbrook Gate, but his cart wheel is square.
Comics, episodes, and other things I've made to tell a story.
The comic follows the Lower Level crew, Zach, Lexx and Bobby, in panels. Episode 1, The Remote, has 35 panels. It starts with a lost TV remote and ends with Bobby putting Halo on for co-op. Episode 2, Infinite Camo, has 22 panels.
Lower Level Legends is the sitcom: the same three friends in the same basement, hanging out with no plot pressure. It is short, funny, and made with AI. It shares its cast and its setting with the Relic Hunters game, but it is its own production.
Pomodoro Maker turns a short prompt into a long study-timer video. You describe the scene, give it 3 images and 2 songs, and it builds the whole thing: each image becomes a short looping animation, a countdown timer runs on top, the songs play under the focus and break blocks, and a beep marks every switch.
Things I'm building. Honest notes on what worked. And what didn't.
Cascade is the first floor of my family's house, rebuilt in Unity from photos. It is a 1970s cedar catalog home, and I am building it room by room, by hand with Claude, to the same standard as the cantina. Later it could become a VRChat world.
This is how I get an AI to draw the same character every time. It is a seven-stage pipeline from my reference art to a trained and reviewed LoRA, a small add-on that teaches an image model one character. Some stages run on their own, and two stop and wait for me.
The second brain is plain markdown files that answer questions about my own work, cheaply. There is no database. One index file has a line for every source, and code does the finding, not the model. It picks keywords, scores the index without opening any file, opens only the best file and section, and only then does the model run, once, with the evidence attached.
Sessions to guides turns my coding sessions into tutorials. When a session ends, a hook saves it as a private devlog. If the session is worth teaching, it becomes a guide, gets checked for private information, is rendered as a PDF and is emailed to me. I reply from my phone: approve, edit or skip.
Going local is the plan to run my whole studio on my own machine. Today Claude does most of the thinking: planning jobs, writing code and judging the results. The goal is that local models on my RTX 4080 laptop do the daily work, and Claude only reviews it. The reason is independence: no usage caps, no cloud bill, and my work stays on my computer.
Apps and widgets I made for my own day: tasks, money and my phone's home screen.
Web Task App is my own Todoist, self-hosted for one person. It runs on my NAS at home and is reachable only over Tailscale. It has a Home side and a Projects side, Todoist-style quick add, reminders on my phone through a private ntfy server, and links to GitHub, Claude Code and my Pebble ring.
Web Budget App is a self-hosted household budget app that works like YNAB 4: the month-by-month budget grid, account registers with splits and transfers, scheduled transactions and reports. It imports an old YNAB 4 budget straight from its backup files, and it runs on my NAS.
Blurt is a task and project intake tool for my phone's home screen that connects to Web Task App. Tap the red button, talk into the keyboard's mic, and your words become tasks. A few seconds after you stop talking, it sends itself.
My daily habits from Web Task App on the phone's home screen. A habit is a recurring task with a label. Tick it off and it moves to its next date; tick it again to undo.
Today from Web Task App on the phone's home screen: overdue tasks first, then today's. Tap a task to complete it. It keeps working offline from the last refresh.
Snag, a home-screen widget: paste a video or GIF link and it downloads with yt-dlp. Each finished video shows up as a card; tap one to open it in the browser and save it to the phone.
Sites I run for the things I make and the things I love.
basementos.com is the website for Lower Level VR, a second front door to the world. It shows the world's achievements and high scores, and it has a build diary. I built it with Claude without knowing how to code: I directed, and the AI wrote the code. It has a player view and a plain developer view.
ms2fett.com is a small site that keeps the record of one Boba Fett costume, BH-7024, for the 501st Legion and the Bounty Hunters Guild. It shows every troop appearance as a mission card with photos.
// Learn how I did it
Six short guides if you have never built anything with an AI agent. Each one takes under 30 minutes and ends with something working on your screen.
Real builds, step by step. What I asked, what broke, and what fixed it. The first one is a 90s-shooter-style level for VRChat.
Setups you can copy, like the system that turns my coding sessions into these guides.
// Follow along
Opens once I have five finished guides, so there is something to see on day one. Until then, nothing to pay for.
One short note when something new goes up. Not set up yet.
I like handing out cards and showing people the games. If you see me, ask for a demo.
// About me
I'm Zach. I build games, VR worlds, stories, and AI tools out of my basement.
I direct, and AI writes the code. I decide what we make, test it, break it, and send it back until it works. That's how I made a VRChat world, a beat-'em-up that runs in your browser, a road trip game you play with friends, and an hour-long study video.
Everything here is real and honest about where it's at. When something breaks, I write that down too.
Basement OS is the home of Lower Level 2.0, my VRChat world. It is a 2000s basement full of the stuff I grew up with: old TVs, arcade games, a snake leaderboard, a working DOS terminal, changing weather, Xbox-style achievements, and an AI cat who helps me find bugs.
The website is a second front door. It shows the world's achievements and high scores, and it has a build diary. I built it with Claude without knowing how to code: I directed, and the AI wrote the code. It has a player view and a plain developer view.
Lower Level 1.0 is the first VR basement, and the entire house around it. It's 2006 and you wake up in your friend's basement after an all-night gaming session. You open your eyes, and the room smells like a mix of stale pizza, Mountain Dew and nostalgia.
It is public in VRChat, so you can visit it today. Lower Level VR, the 2.0 version, grew out of this one.
The comic follows the Lower Level crew, Zach, Lexx and Bobby, in panels. Episode 1, The Remote, has 35 panels. It starts with a lost TV remote and ends with Bobby putting Halo on for co-op. Episode 2, Infinite Camo, has 22 panels.
The art comes from my image pipeline, plus a few short animated loops. A script builds each episode into a reader page. Right now that page is private, and only I can open it. I still have to finish my read-through of Episode 1 and fix some lines.
Lower Level Legends is the sitcom: the same three friends in the same basement, hanging out with no plot pressure. It is short, funny, and made with AI. It shares its cast and its setting with the Relic Hunters game, but it is its own production.
Honest status: nothing is animated yet. The season opener, Sudden Death, is about 44 seconds long with a 9-shot list and a locked script. I have a 13-second draft of the logo intro, and the basement set is locked, but no keyframes or video exist for the opener.
The Relic Hunters is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up that runs in your browser. Three friends travel back to a rainy 2007 strip mall in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin to collect sealed gaming relics, fighting cyborg Slop Agents on the way. The relics are how they stop a 2045 AI that makes soulless games.
It already plays through title, character select, stage select, shop and fight. Co-op today means one human plus one AI partner. Real two-player is not built. The project board says 28 of 155 required items were done on 10-03-2026. Levels and bosses are the bottleneck, and most levels still need a human playtest.
The Accord is a 3D shooter in the Relic Hunters world, inspired by Max Payne: comic-panel story, gamer-noir narration and slow-motion dives. It is 2045 in Mega City. Gamefuel rides in on a motorcycle, fights his way through a corporate lobby with two pistols and bullet time, and takes the elevator up. It is built in Unity and runs in the browser.
Honest status: it is a greybox slice. The whole flow works, from the title screen through the lobby fight to the elevator, and its 34 automated tests pass. It is not done: the fight still stutters, parts of the lobby are too dark, and the music is not made yet.
The Long Way Home is a road trip you play on your phone, with friends, a little at a time. Everyone plays in a browser on their own schedule. Each person's big move gets collected at shared checkpoints, so a slow friend only delays the group moment, not your whole day.
You get private information, you can die, and you can secretly keep playing as a Ghost that the living never learn about. It started as a proof of concept. A real group trip has played it, and I fixed a bug that made an inactive crew member vanish from the roster.
Mandatory Side Quest is a comedy point-and-click adventure with Zach, Lexx and Bobby. Ironwood's Quest Board has malfunctioned and turned every small civic inconvenience into an urgent heroic quest. Chapter one, The Unescorted Escort, has you walk a merchant to Millbrook Gate, but his cart wheel is square.
You switch between three characters, and each one has an ability you need. There are no timers, no deaths and no fail states. A computer search checked 43,908 game states and found the ending reachable from every one, so you cannot get stuck. Only chapter one exists so far.
VR Cantina rebuilds a real restaurant, its dining room and its bar, as a VRChat world. I match it to reference photos and judge every build side by side: my photo on the left, the build on the right.
So far it has booths, bar fans, a neon margarita sign, an entry lobby with an arch and a mural, and a TV wall that runs a broadcast schedule. The lighting is baked with the Bakery GPU lightmapper. The Quest version is still too big: it has shrunk from 466 MB to 151 MB against a 100 MB limit. The lobby light still reads too blue, and the world is not published.
Cascade is the first floor of my family's house, rebuilt in Unity from photos. It is a 1970s cedar catalog home, and I am building it room by room, by hand with Claude, to the same standard as the cantina. Later it could become a VRChat world.
Every measurement lives in a ledger marked confirmed, changed or open. Ten cameras are matched to real photos to within 3 pixels. The shell, doors, windows, stairs and living room are in. Some parts are still guesses, and everything is grey with no textures. It is private: the reference photos are family photos and they never leave my computer.
This is how I get an AI to draw the same character every time. It is a seven-stage pipeline from my reference art to a trained and reviewed LoRA, a small add-on that teaches an image model one character. Some stages run on their own, and two stop and wait for me.
I make about 20 training photos, crop them to 1024 by 1024 and caption them. Then I train on my RTX 4080 laptop GPU. Then I test it in ComfyUI and approve or reject each image. Zach's run finished cleanly on 09-04-2026. It is not perfect: the identity test passed for Zach and Lexx but not for Bobby, and one run was lost to a PC crash.
The second brain is plain markdown files that answer questions about my own work, cheaply. There is no database. One index file has a line for every source, and code does the finding, not the model. It picks keywords, scores the index without opening any file, opens only the best file and section, and only then does the model run, once, with the evidence attached.
On 08-11-2026 I tested it against a normal session on 6 real questions. Both got 6 of 6 right. The brain used 32% fewer tokens and was 7.2 times faster. It has a limit: for facts already in the always-loaded index, a normal session is just as fast. The brain wins on facts buried inside files. The dashboard in the screenshot shows 7,227 sources indexed.
Sessions to guides turns my coding sessions into tutorials. When a session ends, a hook saves it as a private devlog. If the session is worth teaching, it becomes a guide, gets checked for private information, is rendered as a PDF and is emailed to me. I reply from my phone: approve, edit or skip.
Almost every step is plain code. Only the writing uses a cheap model call. A sample guide, Remaster a 3D map as a retro 90s level, came out at 4 pages. It is not finished: publishing is a stub until I pick where guides go, and the work still sits on an unmerged branch.
Going local is the plan to run my whole studio on my own machine. Today Claude does most of the thinking: planning jobs, writing code and judging the results. The goal is that local models on my RTX 4080 laptop do the daily work, and Claude only reviews it. The reason is independence: no usage caps, no cloud bill, and my work stays on my computer.
It moves one piece at a time, and each piece has to prove itself first. A local model answers next to Claude in shadow mode, code counts how often they agree, and only when the local one keeps up do I switch it over. Some parts already run local: video with Wan, character images with my own LoRAs in ComfyUI, and Ollama planning those jobs. Every decision my job queue makes is now saved as training data, so the local models have something to learn from. This is months of steady work, not a weekend.
Pomodoro Maker turns a short prompt into a long study-timer video. You describe the scene, give it 3 images and 2 songs, and it builds the whole thing: each image becomes a short looping animation, a countdown timer runs on top, the songs play under the focus and break blocks, and a beep marks every switch.
There is no video editor in the loop. Clips are looped to length, the timer is drawn over them and the audio is mixed in, all by script, so a new timer is a new prompt and a new set of files. The first one it made was Pomodoro Bears, a one-hour timer with cosy bears.
basementos.com is the website for Lower Level VR, a second front door to the world. It shows the world's achievements and high scores, and it has a build diary. I built it with Claude without knowing how to code: I directed, and the AI wrote the code. It has a player view and a plain developer view.
ms2fett.com is a small site that keeps the record of one Boba Fett costume, BH-7024, for the 501st Legion and the Bounty Hunters Guild. It shows every troop appearance as a mission card with photos.
It has four pages: Home, Tour of Duty, About and Armory. It is plain HTML with no build step. A separate tracker app updates the pages through GitHub, replacing only the sections between comment markers. The latest mission was Mando and Grogu Premier in Madison, Wisconsin, on 05-21-2026. The repo has been quiet since 05-22-2026, and the next-deployment spot is empty.
Slop City is a 1990s-style sprite shooter that runs inside VRChat, Quest first. It is 2045, it rains, and everything glows magenta and cyan. You fight from Noodle Row through a night market and a corporate lobby into a vault of seized physical games, then stop THE AUTO-RENEWER and hit the NUKE BUTTON. It is a side mission in the Relic Hunters world, with its own cast.
Everything is flat sprites on purpose, like the old Duke and Doom games: the pistol, the enemies, and the Mighty Boot kick. The status bar along the bottom has red LED digits and your live avatar face. Honest status: the full level and shared multiplayer are built and pass their tests, but multiplayer has only been tested with one player, and it still needs my own test run in VRChat.
Web Task App is my own Todoist, self-hosted for one person. It runs on my NAS at home and is reachable only over Tailscale. It has a Home side and a Projects side, Todoist-style quick add, reminders on my phone through a private ntfy server, and links to GitHub, Claude Code and my Pebble ring.
Quick add is parsed by plain code, no AI: one line like '#Project tomorrow 5pm every mon' becomes a task.
Web Budget App is a self-hosted household budget app that works like YNAB 4: the month-by-month budget grid, account registers with splits and transfers, scheduled transactions and reports. It imports an old YNAB 4 budget straight from its backup files, and it runs on my NAS.
It is my own software. It is not affiliated with YNAB, and it uses none of their code.
Blurt is a task and project intake tool for my phone's home screen that connects to Web Task App. Tap the red button, talk into the keyboard's mic, and your words become tasks. A few seconds after you stop talking, it sends itself.
My daily habits from Web Task App on the phone's home screen. A habit is a recurring task with a label. Tick it off and it moves to its next date; tick it again to undo.
Today from Web Task App on the phone's home screen: overdue tasks first, then today's. Tap a task to complete it. It keeps working offline from the last refresh.
Snag, a home-screen widget: paste a video or GIF link and it downloads with yt-dlp. Each finished video shows up as a card; tap one to open it in the browser and save it to the phone.
