Publishing an AI-Built Game: Eleven Runners, Two CPU Architectures, Four Hidden Bugs

Runbook · Public release & CI proof · Part 4

A complete game played on an Arm64 Linux cloud build machine with no monitor, no desktop and nobody watching. The application drew this picture of itself.

Publishing an AI-Built Game: Eleven Runners, Two CPU Architectures, Four Hidden Bugs

In Part 3 of this series, ChatDev 2.0 built SANYALnet Labs Ludo AI Arena—a C#/.NET 10/Avalonia desktop game in which four autonomous AI players play a full match by themselves. Five free models failed at it; one paid DeepSeek run costing about a dollar shipped it. The post ended with the game running on four machines in my house, and a build report from the agents declaring everything green. Both of those statements were true. Neither of them meant the software was actually finished.

Build a Cross-Platform Ludo Game with ChatDev 2.0: Free AI Models Fail, a $1 DeepSeek Run Ships It

Runbook · Multi-agent application build · Part 3

The finished game: four autonomous AI players, a live event log of model-chosen moves, and a die that flashes without shoving the board around.

Building a Desktop Game with ChatDev 2.0: When Free AI Models Fail, and a One-Dollar DeepSeek Run Ships It

In Part 2 of this series, ChatDev 2.0 took a detailed specification and built a Live News Debate Wall—a self-contained Python web service that turned business headlines into a fictional AI-parody debate. That project answered a friendly question: can the virtual software company build a real application from a real spec? It could. This time the question was less friendly.

Build and Run a Live AI News Debate Wall with ChatDev on Linux

Runbook · Multi-agent application build

ChatDev’s finished Live News Debate Wall turns live business headlines into an AI-parody debate—complete with policy, bureaucracy, Vogon poetry and Yoda.

Building a live AI news debate wall with ChatDev 2.0: from requirements prompt to a tested Linux service

In the first part of this series, I installed ChatDev 2.0 on Linux, connected its virtual software company to an OpenAI-compatible GLM endpoint, and proved that the complete agent graph could design, write, review, test and deliver a runnable program. This time, the factory gets an actual assignment.

DO NOT PANIC: Free Windows Stock Market Dashboard

DO NOT PANIC Portfolio Visualizer turns delayed market data into an animated, full-screen financial display.

Stock-market dashboards usually resemble spreadsheets that have acquired several extra panels and begun making demands. We wanted something different: a financial display that could live on a second monitor, office screen, television, or wall-mounted panel without looking like an accounting department had occupied the room.

The result is DO NOT PANIC Portfolio Visualizer 1.0, a free animated stock market dashboard for 64-bit Windows 10 and Windows 11. It combines delayed portfolio quotes, four customizable ticker tapes, floating charts, global market clocks, macro indicators, financial headlines, and rotating city or stock-exchange backgrounds. It is now available from the project’s official GitHub release and its itch.io download page.

Install ChatDev 2.0 on Linux: AI Agents That Build Real Software

Runbook · Multi-agent software factory

Building software with a team of AI agents: installing ChatDev 2.0 and passing a full-lifecycle smoke test

For a while now I've wanted to break out of the closed ecosystems I write code in every day — OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex, Anthropic's Claude and Claude Code. The reason is simple: the free, openly available models have been closing the gap with the $20-a-month subscription tiers so quickly that paying for a walled garden increasingly feels like a habit rather than a necessity. That instinct was sharpened by Bill Gurley's July 2026 Washington Post opinion piece — Gurley, president and founder of the P3 Institute and a former venture capitalist, argues that the flood of powerful models being given away for free is not a security threat but ordinary competition: the oldest strategy in software, cost leadership, driving price down toward the near-zero cost of copying a model. It is, in the essay's words, simply "what competition looks like." Convinced that the open side is where the momentum now lies, I went hunting for a serious free-model toolchain to build real software with — and ChatDev is the most promising thing I found.