RFD Studio on RFD Studio — Games by Robert Dugger

Dissonance Depths

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:46:28 -0400

Systemic Extract

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:41:38 -0400

House of Kings: Collab

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:34:24 -0400

Slimegarden

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:31:54 -0400

Snake Roguelike

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:29:37 -0400

AntSim Redux

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:27:15 -0400

Earlier version: AntSim (Python)

AntSim demonstrates pheromone trail emergence and swarm behavior through evolutionary genetics. Ants lay exploratory and return-trail pheromones, reinforcing successful paths through natural selection. The simulation shows how individual agent behaviors create colony-level intelligence without centralized control.

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Key Features

5-gene evolutionary system: sensitivity, speed, boldness, lifespan, energy_efficiency
Pheromone trails: Exploratory and return-trail markers with decay
Queen mortality: Autonomous royal jelly raising for colony continuity
Split-view rendering: Overhead foraging + ant hill cross-section

GitHub: AntSim

Mutant Battle Ball

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:17:48 -0400

SlimeCoin

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:14:55 -0400

SlimeWorld

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:03:46 -0400

Facility Escape

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:01:11 -0400

Ledger

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:51:16 -0400

CorpWorld

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:40:05 -0400

Kingmaker Squads

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:40:05 -0400

Trinity Siege

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:35:07 -0400

Gladiator Arena

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:03:17 -0400

Choke Point

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:48:09 -0400

Chimera Wilds

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:27:55 -0400

7 Days To Fry

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:23:30 -0400

ScrapCrawl

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:14:30 -0400

VoidRift Particle Sandbox

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:00:02 -0400

Coin Pusher Arcade

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:41:36 -0400

Shoal

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:45:25 -0400

Planet of Greed

Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:22:09 -0400

VoidDrift Redux

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:22:05 -0400

Succession

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:59:50 -0400

Wire & Rust

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:47:51 -0400

Derby Sim

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:43:45 -0400

SlimeBreeder

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:10:17 -0400

How games get in

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Written July 2026, when the engine was Lua-first; the studio is TypeScript-native now (ADR-013).

How New Games Get In: Google AI Studio → Shared Engine

New games start as standalone demos in Google AI Studio — a fast way to prototype a real mechanic without committing to the studio’s four-file contract before knowing if the idea holds up. The ones worth keeping get ported in.

ScrapCrawl is the proof this works. It shipped as a Google AI Studio TypeScript demo first, then got ported into the Lua contract as a standalone game — rooms, crafting, companion breeding, all of it, running through the same shared engine as everything else.

Studio Infrastructure — Studio Status

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Current State: Complete

Studio infrastructure is complete. The shared engine, compliance audits, and cross-game duplication resolution are all done.

ADR-013: TS-Native Default Locked

ADR-013 formalized what the Shoal performance investigation proved: TypeScript-native is the studio default. Lua is retired as a mandatory runtime — it remains supported for games with genuine cross-language portability requirements (VoidDrift, TurboShells), but it is no longer the default contract for new games.

This was driven by hard measured data (Shoal’s 151.7x speedup), not preference.

VoidRift

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:39:04 -0400

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The Game

VoidRift is a mining simulation set at the edge of a black hole. The asteroid fields are debris from what the black hole eats. You mine them. The station has been here longer than you. It should have been consumed. It has not been. You don’t know why.

OPERATOR: A Dispatch Simulator

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How It Works: The Game Loop

OPERATOR is a high-fidelity dispatch simulation where you manage a roster of genetically unique slime “operators.”

Hatch & Splice: Use the genetic engine to synthesize offspring with inherited traits (Energy, Shyness, Affection, Curiosity).
Deploy: Form squads and dispatch them to planetary targets with varying danger levels and resource yields.
Resonate: Audio events like the “Ember Chord” trigger based on the squad’s collective stats (STR, AGI, INT).
Resolve: After the real-time ETA expires, process the After-Action Report (AAR) to award XP, resources, or manage injuries.

Governance & Integrity

“Built under strict ADR discipline — CONSTITUTION.md, SPEC.md, and locked ADRs govern every architectural decision.”

GreenGap

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

GreenGap is my answer to a specific question: Can you teach serious environmental science concepts through a game without boring the player?

The answer is yes—if you embed the concepts in the rules.

The Game

You’re a land manager restoring a forest. You have budget, seasons, and limited actions. To succeed, you must:

Understand plant succession (pioneer species → climax ecosystem)
Plan long-term (this decision matters 20 seasons ahead)
Adapt when randomness disrupts your strategy (droughts, pests)

Win by reaching a thriving ecosystem. Lose by running out of budget or time.

TurboShells

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

TurboShells is a persistent turtle racing simulation with a 20-trait genetic system. A Python race engine runs the simulation and streams it over WebSockets to a React and PixiJS front end; the turboshells-core Rust library provides the genetics and race operations with Python bindings via PyO3.

Overview

The turboshells-core library provides high-performance Rust systems for turtle racing simulation:

Module	Description
`genetics`	20 gene definitions, Mendelian inheritance, mutation system
`simulation`	Turtle physics, terrain effects, race engine

Genetic System

20 Gene Definitions:

PyPongAI

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Research Question

Can evolution discover how to play Pong without hand-coded rules?

This platform demonstrates the answer: from Generation 0 (0% win rate, random movement) to Generation 50 (98% win rate, perfect predictive tracking).

The Arc

Generation 0:

0% win rate
Random paddle movement
No trajectory prediction
Ball bounces off randomly

Generation 10:

15% win rate
Basic ball tracking
Simple reaction to ball position
Still misses frequently

Generation 25:

Orbling Conquest

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Vision

Crash-land on an uncharted planet and use your ship’s Synthesis Lab to research, train and breed Orblings. Orbling Conquest is a turn-based RPG web app covering battles, crafting, exploration and a branching story, with encounters generated through Google’s Genkit AI framework.

The Build

Built with Next.js and TypeScript on Firebase, with Tailwind CSS and Radix UI components, Zustand for state and Jest tests. It was developed in Firebase Studio in one intensive week — 311 commits between 8 and 15 June 2025.

RogueAsteroid

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Game

You’re a ship in an asteroid field. Thrust carefully — momentum carries in space. Shoot a large asteroid and it splits into medium ones; medium ones split into small ones. Clear the wave and the next level gets harder. Survive two levels and you earn an extra life, up to five. The top five scores are saved between sessions.

Architecture

Game objects are entities made of components rather than a deep inheritance tree. Ships, asteroids, bullets and particles share movement, rendering and collision behaviour through composable components (src/core/entities/components.py), so a new behaviour means a new component, not a new subclass.

rpgCore

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

[!IMPORTANT] rpgCore was retired on 13 September 2026. Its work continues in RFDGameStudio, where a snapshot is archived for reference and recovery, and its patterns carried into the Rust-based OperatorGame. The retrospective covers what was kept.

The Concept

The Valve Orange Box: Half-Life 2, Episode One, Episode Two, Portal, Team Fortress 2. Five completely different games. One engine.

I wanted to apply that concept to solo indie dev: one engine, four completely different games, no duplicated systems.