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The Build

How Inselnova gets built: AI workflows, tooling, and the engineering behind a solo-made browser strategy game.

6 posts

The Build 18 May 2026 7 min read

Building an AI harness around your app. Releases got slower. Hotfixes nearly stopped.

Inselnova is my first game, built solo with AI, three months live with real players. The AI is fast, and just as fast at shipping a mistake. The real work was the harness: a set of skills and gates every change has to pass before it reaches live.

The Build 12 April 2026 13 min read

How I Ship a Browser Strategy Game With Slash Commands and 12 Scripts

I replaced Trello with a custom tracker wired into my game's production database. Players report bugs from inside the game. AI skills in my editor wrap deterministic Node scripts for branching, committing, and deploying. If CI fails, the AI fixes it and retries. Here's how the whole release cycle connects.

The Build 4 April 2026 6 min read

What 150,000 Lines of AI-Generated TypeScript Actually Looks Like

Inselnova has 179,101 lines of TypeScript across 1,015 files and 1,272 commits. I didn't write most of it. Here's what that actually means, why it works at scale, and what the senior dev who quit at 150K lines got wrong.

The Build 3 April 2026 7 min read

How I Built a Dev Log Pipeline with AI in One Sitting

Sat down in Claude Cowork, dumped six weeks of raw notes about building a browser strategy game, and came out with 5 blog posts, a tone system, SEO integration, cover image generation, and a reusable skill. Here's how the pipeline works.

The Build 1 April 2026 7 min read

Blind Coding: My AI Workflow for Building a Game from My Phone

Built Inselnova's core gameplay loop on a road trip using Claude Code on mobile. Tests first, skill files for context, AGENTS.md as a living spec, plan mode to prevent scope creep. Three weeks in, one bad release.

The Build 14 March 2026 7 min read

I built a multiplayer browser strategy game in two weeks

30 years coding, built a multiplayer island strategy game in two weeks using Claude Code, Codex, and ChatGPT. Started blind on my phone during a road trip. Sharing the workflow, the mistakes, and what I'd do differently.