Football Simulator (working title)

Playable build: export a Defold HTML5 build into public/games/football-simulator/ and the embed above goes live. Until then it shows a styled placeholder so the page still looks finished.

The context

This is the project where I put 20 years of production discipline behind a single keyboard. I’m building a real-time 2D football simulator solo, in Defold and Lua, using Claude and Codex as paired collaborators — and treating the AI like a team I produce rather than a tool I prompt.

The workflow

The interesting part isn’t that AI wrote code; it’s the process I built so its contributions stayed consistent across a large, growing codebase:

• Design briefs → AI-paired design → independent AI review — every system starts as a written brief, gets designed in pairing, then reviewed by a separate AI pass that didn’t write it.
• Implementation planning → code-review gates → feature acceptance → documentation — the same gates I’d run on a studio team, applied to AI output.
• Context engineering — a reusable approach to feeding the model the right slice of the codebase so its work fits what already exists.

This is the same producer toolkit from my studio years — scope management, prioritization, review gates, technical-debt tracking — pointed at an AI-assisted pipeline.

What’s shipped so far

Physics-based player movement, role-specific AI behaviors, influence-zone blocking with contest mechanics, and a headless Lua test framework — roughly 36K lines of production Lua and 15K lines of tests across 217 commits in 7 months, an estimated 4x velocity over unassisted solo work.