The last few weeks has been a really good one for Tharendell, and I’m excited to say I’ve pushed several major features into production. ⚔️ Single Fight Is Live (Alpha Testing) The Single Fight featur
Tharendell Update: Temporary Pause on AI NPC Chats
Good evening, everyone! I wanted to share a quick update on the AI NPCs on the portfolio page. For the moment, I’ve temporarily disabled the interactive chat functionality with the NPCs. Nothing’s bro
Shipping the Tharendell Player Area
Over the past four weeks, my nights have been filled with JWT bearer tokens, API design decisions, PHP rabbit holes, custom WordPress plugins, and a fully bespoke theme built from the ground up. Tonig
Four Articles, One Obsession: Engineering Living AI Characters
For the last several months, I’ve been neck-deep in a strange and wonderful hybrid of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and fantasy world-building. What started as “let’s see if I can mak
Changes are Coming
The heart of my portfolio, the place where I show off my AI tinkering, tuning, and world-building, is the land of Tharendell. For anyone just tuning in: during my first semester of grad school, I took
Flux Hijinks
Up until about 72 hours ago, I was a die-hard Kandinsky fan. My go-to model for AI art. My trusty paintbrush in the digital realm.But somewhere between “almost good” and “why is this elf holding a toa
Horror Movies + Coding = A Great Saturday Night!
Before I get into the nitty-gritty of tonight’s bug-squishing and feature-tuning session, I have to talk about how I spent my evening — watching Macabre Theater with the legendary Ivonna Cadaver! I fi
Building the Portfolio, Leveling Up the NPCs, & Real-Time SysOp Chat
I’m in full upload mode over here—there’s a pile of work I want to get onto the site for you all to poke and prod. A couple of my papers are with professors right now for a sanity check on clarity and
NPC
The first set of AI-driven NPCs is up and ready to chat: https://babblebaz.com/npc-ai. They live in Tharendell, the fantasy world I’m building in public—and you’re invited to help. After you finish po