https://reasons.design/asset-forge-devblog/ A dev blog about building Asset Forge, a game-asset studio: the research, the costs, the agent team, and the bugs, in reading order. en Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://reasons.design/asset-forge-devblog/making-merges-faster/ https://reasons.design/asset-forge-devblog/making-merges-faster/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Every merge ran every UI check, so a card that changed one screen still waited about an hour. Picking only the checks a change can affect fixed that for small cards. Most cards still touch shared files, and moving tests to my second PC freed a lock more than it saved time. https://reasons.design/asset-forge-devblog/building-with-a-team-of-ai-agents/ https://reasons.design/asset-forge-devblog/building-with-a-team-of-ai-agents/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 I write cards and Claude agents do the work, one card per run, each in its own git worktree, with a single merge script as the only way into main. Over 131 cards and 274 runs, more than half the cards needed a second run. https://reasons.design/asset-forge-devblog/never-a-surprise-bill/ https://reasons.design/asset-forge-devblog/never-a-surprise-bill/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Nothing paid runs in Asset Forge without a price on the button and a yes from me. This is how that rule grew, from a $5 cap on day one to job-id spend tracking, and the two money cards still unfinished on 11 October. https://reasons.design/asset-forge-devblog/studying-the-competition/ https://reasons.design/asset-forge-devblog/studying-the-competition/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Before I wrote much code I read everything Sorceress publishes, mapped its logged-in tools without spending a credit, then ran capped paid tests. It took 1,046 credits, plus one API key I had to scrub from git history. https://reasons.design/asset-forge-devblog/why-i-built-my-own-asset-studio/ https://reasons.design/asset-forge-devblog/why-i-built-my-own-asset-studio/ Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 On 2 October I started a Godot game, wrote down the 97 pieces of art it needed, and paused it the same afternoon to build a tool for making them. Ten days and 66 versions later, the game is still paused.