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Ludoo
A 3D board game for phones and tablets, with a table mode in which one shared device is the board and each player's phone is a private controller.
Ownership
- StatedA partner venture, as Merlin Studio describes it: the game's owner brings the game and makes the final product calls; Merlin designs, builds and runs everything else.
- DocumentedThe repository's rulings documents record the owner's decisions on the rules.
Stage
- DocumentedPlayable on the web at app.ludoo.online; mobile builds in testing, not yet in the stores.
His role
- DocumentedSole committer (about 180 commits in five weeks, August–September 2026), with AI coding agents credited as co-authors on every commit.
Decisions
- DocumentedAn authoritative server holds every rule; the client holds none and only submits intents.
- DocumentedEighteen architecture decision records, open decisions explicitly marked as not yet approvable, and the owner's rulings encoded as tests.
AI
- DocumentedAI characters talk during play through Gemini, but a language model cannot decide a move or an outcome; authored lines are the fallback, and a model-drafted character is saved only after a person has read it.
What this demonstrates
- InferenceAI kept behind deterministic authority, and AI-assisted development run with explicit decision records.
Each line is labelled by the evidence behind it. Documented: checkable in code, a live product or a primary artefact. Stated: his own account. Attributed: a wider team's or client's. Inference: a reading of the evidence, not a fact. Unknown: not established. No outcome or metric is documented for any of this work. The same record is published for AI assistants at /llms-full.txt.