Main Floor
Elven Court
A jewel-box three-reel slot with weighted strips and one readable payline.
Mini game · Godot 4 · AI / LLM assisted
A complete casino adventure, built with AI and finished with discipline.
House Rules is a nine-game, four-room experience. Human direction shaped the rules, taste, and release decisions; AI accelerated exploration, implementation, testing, and iteration.
Play money only · No purchases or wagering
- playable cabinets
- 9
- connected rooms
- 4
- automated tests
- 573
- assertions
- 124,982
The player experience
One world, nine different games.
The challenge was not simply to make nine mini games. It was to make them feel like one product: a walkable casino, one shared bankroll, one progression arc, consistent controls, and nine distinct visual identities.
Walk to a cabinet. Learn its rules. Carry your progress from table to table. Earn the deed to the House.
The collection
Nine cabinets. Nine identities.
Familiar casino structures become distinct worlds—from an elven slot and magical vault to tennis Plinko, pirate crash, and a harlequin cluster game.
Main Floor
Blackjack 21
A complete six-deck table with visible decisions, settlement, and dealer play.
Main Floor
Hexbound Vault
A risk-and-cash-out game presented as a forbidden magical vault.
High Roller Salon
Velvet Baccarat
Punto banco with exact commission rules, card squeeze, and a persistent bead road.
High Roller Salon
Match Point
Tennis-themed Plinko with three risk profiles and live physical feedback.
High Roller Salon
Corsair’s Reach
A crash game where a parrot climbs and the player chooses when to haul in.
VIP Penthouse
Ruby Roulette
Single-zero roulette with keyboard-navigable inside and outside betting.
VIP Penthouse
Texas Hold’em
Fixed-limit poker against five NPC play styles with full showdown presentation.
VIP Penthouse
Harlequin Masquerade
Cluster pays, tumbles, escalating multipliers, and staged win celebrations.
How the product works
Presentation never decides the payout.
Each cabinet calculates one round result. A single session layer settles it into the shared wallet and save—keeping animation and effects outside the game economy.
- 01Player inputKeyboard · Controller · Pointer
- 02Cabinet logicRules · RNG · Validation
- 03RoundResultTyped settlement boundary
- 04Wallet + saveOne shared source of truth
Zero to hero · Build review
Show the decisions, not only the finished screens.
The project moved from a one-line experiment to a release through product rules, reusable code, a traceable art pipeline, and evidence-driven review.
- 01IdeaCan AI help one developer ship a cohesive game?
- 02ContractNine cabinets, one wallet, keyboard-first controls.
- 03SystemsRules and settlement before visual polish.
- 04WorldSource art became production-ready rooms and hosts.
- 05ReviewAutomated captures turned defects into concrete tasks.
- 06ReleaseTests, simulations, documentation, and a public v1.0.
Real implementation excerpt
One guarded path settles every cabinet.
The cabinet session rejects closed, missing, or repeated results before the wallet can change. That small boundary makes nine very different games dependable.
Read cabinet_session.gdfunc apply_result(result: RoundResult) -> bool:
if _is_closed or result == null or _seen_results.has(result):
return false
_seen_results[result] = true
if not Wallet.try_apply(result.stake, result.payout):
context.balance = Wallet.balance
return falseOne asset, three states
Generate. Prepare. Prove it in the game.
Hexbound Vault’s host shows why a generated image is a starting point—not a shipped asset.
How it was built
From constraint to public release.
The roadmap documents completed work—not promises. Every stage moved through selection, integration, capture, and review before it became part of the release.
- 01
Define
Product contract, cabinet rules, progression, and accessibility constraints.
- 02
Prove
Deterministic game logic, settlement boundaries, and reproducible outcomes.
- 03
Build
Four layered rooms, nine themed cabinets, hosts, UI systems, and motion.
- 04
Refine
Automated captures exposed focus, scaling, collision, copy, and composition defects.
- 05
Validate
Regression suites, million-round simulations, public repository, and MIT release.
The asset system
Built as parts. Read as one world.
Generated and hand-directed source art was cleaned, aligned, converted into reusable production assets, and judged inside the engine—not in isolation.
Environments
Layered 4K rooms with independent foreground, collision, and depth behavior.
Characters
Aligned hosts, staff, reactions, and eight-direction player motion.
Interface kit
Reusable panels, buttons, medallions, focus states, and progression pieces.
Playing cards
One reusable deck for Blackjack, Baccarat, Roulette presentation, and Hold’em.
Player motion
Eight-direction movement calibrated to room perspective and painted characters.
Effects & feedback
Cabinet-specific reveals, wins, tumbles, and reduced-motion alternatives.
Human direction × AI acceleration
Generated work was never treated as finished work.
AI expanded the production surface. Human judgment set the goals, rejected weak output, shaped the systems, and made the final release decisions.
Human
Direction & judgment
- Product vision and scope
- Rules and acceptance criteria
- Visual taste and rejection decisions
- Accessibility and release gates
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AI
Exploration & execution
- Concept and prompt exploration
- Implementation support
- Art and pose generation
- Test, capture, and documentation iteration
AI accelerated production; it did not replace verification or authorship decisions.
Engineering proof
The polish is visible. The reliability is testable.
The release gate covers deterministic replays, resolution checks, navigation, collision, game math, and long-run simulations. The game runs offline, saves locally, and sends no telemetry.
- 8 million-round RTP simulations
- 100k Hold’em hand baseline
- FHD–UHD layout validation
- 0 network dependencies at runtime
Accessibility is part of the product
Every cabinet works without a pointer.
Keyboard and controller navigation, visible component-contained focus, device-aware prompts, paginated help, minimum target sizes, and reduced-motion behavior share one consistent interaction system.
- Keyboard
- Controller
- Visible focus
- Reduced motion
- Adaptive prompts
The outcome
The house is yours.
What began as an AI-building experiment became a complete public v1.0: nine games, four connected rooms, shared progression, reproducible art pipelines, automated captures, and a green release gate.