what you actually get
Not a wall of AI text — an angle, its evidence, a script that survived review, and the exact list of what still needs shooting. This one is annotated so you can see why each part is there.
A sample package with fictional content, shown so you can judge the shape of the deliverable. Connect your own work to see yours.
Ipsum Interactive — Placeholder Panic devlog
ApprovedPlayers kept clipping through the market crowd, and the fix was not a patch — it was throwing out A* for flow fields. Lead with the bug report that started it, end with the before/after crowd shot.
Why this story: Chosen over "new enemy reveal" because the crowd bug has 41 comments on the Steam thread — the audience already cares — and the diff is 90% of one system, which makes an honest deep-dive possible.
Every claim in the draft points back to one of these. Nothing is in the package because a model felt like it.
Steam discussion — "NPCs walk through each other in the market"
41 comments · top thread this month
Why it’s here: The story starts where the audience already is. This thread is the cold open.
a3f9c21 — replace A* crowd steering with flow fields
+2,140 −1,876 across pathfinding/
Why it’s here: The core of the piece. The diff size proves "rewrite" is not an exaggeration.
capture_0412.mp4 — 200 NPCs, old system, market square
0:34 · frame-sampled
Why it’s here: The "before" half of the money shot. Clipping visible at 0:11 and 0:27.
notes/flowfield-tradeoffs.md
design note, 900 words
Why it’s here: Carries the honest cost — memory doubled — which is what makes the piece credible instead of promotional.
Both versions are kept. The difference between them is an editorial decision, and it is recorded — not lost the moment the tab closes.
As generated
Three weeks ago a player posted a clip of our market square. Two hundred NPCs, and half of them were walking through each other. This devlog is about why the fix took a rewrite, not a patch.
As edited · approved
Three weeks ago a player posted a clip of our market square: two hundred NPCs, half of them walking straight through each other. We laughed, then we read the pathfinding code, and then we stopped laughing. This is why the fix was a rewrite, not a patch.
What the system learned: The reviewer merged the first two sentences and added the "stopped laughing" beat. Recorded as an editorial decision: openings should carry the studio’s self-deprecating tone. The next draft starts from this, not from zero.
The half of a briefing no tool writes down: the shot list. Your editor gets both columns, so the first question is never “what am I missing?”.
In the library
Still needs shooting
Cut a 4–5 minute devlog. The before/after crowd shot is the spine; the script is approved as edited. Two shots still need capturing — listed above, with framing notes.
Five states, five snapshots. Every decision between “generated” and “approved” is a row the next draft learns from.
Connect a repo, a social account, or a folder of recordings, and the first package starts from what you shipped last week.