Projects — Thomas J. Vu

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Fire Emblem gameplay dashboard showing map state, units, and AI decision context

LLM Let's Play - Fire Emblem

Agent gameplay harness: mGBA state in, tactical context to the model, controller actions back, dashboard for humans.

SteezUI docs homepage overview

SteezUI

Shadcn-style design system with dual install paths, inspectable demos, and craft-focused primitives for design-engineering portfolios.

Short SFW Rally presence loop — character idle with megaphone on a stage backdrop

Rally

Waifu visual novel chat experience with Live2D, memory, and a relationship loop you can actually play.

Mystery Gift randomness app showing execution controls, network selection, and request pricing

Mystery Gift

TEE-backed verifiable randomness infrastructure for giveaways and gachapon systems without on-chain costs.

Phantasy operator UI showing character runtime API routes and a character chat surface

Phantasy

AI agent framework for creating agents and games: character identity, memory, tools, approvals, and operator workflows in one engine.

Alkahest app interface with private chat thread, model panel, and attestation badge

Alkahest

Private and uncensored LLM inference platform with end-to-end encryption and trusted execution environment deployment.

Lisper Hugging Face Spaces demo interface

Lisper

Gemma 4 audio speech-practice app for low-pressure lisp feedback, with public model artifacts and a browser-ready ONNX/WebGPU path.

vn-tts playground with visual novel dialogue box and local TTS controls

vn-tts

Visual novel style local TTS — sine-wave beeps per character, zero dependencies.

Research

BS-Bench

600-game benchmark across six hosted LLMs for measuring deception, lie detection, and instruction compliance in a hidden-information card game.

Frozen pilot: 600 games

Models: 6 hosted LLMs

Honesty effect: Lies ↓, success ↑

Reproducibility: Seeded + CSV

“Honesty prompts reduced lying, but also reduced challenges and made remaining lies more successful.”

Prototypes

Archive

The Daily QuestAutomated game-dev newsletter with a daily challenge.
PomodauralPomodoro timer with binaural beats for focus sessions.
Neon StackBrowser 3D stacking game with neon aesthetics, built with Three.js.
Invader VimSpace Invaders-style game that teaches vi/vim keybindings.
Against GoblinUnity microgame with item management and goblin battles.
PomodoggoGamified pomodoro focus app where you stay productive while taking care of a virtual dog companion.
Boss RaidOpenAI-compatible API that orchestrates specialist agents and settles payments over x402. 3rd place hackathon project.
Cloud Step 9A browser-based rhythm platformer where you stomp on kawaii clouds to the beat of procedurally generated EDM.
Building a Paper Mario Action Command SystemHow to build a Power Bounce combat system with state machines, timing windows, and difficulty scaling.
AmadeusSteins;Gate 0 Amadeus replica: a character agent with a recognizable voice and memory.
Ed, Edd, & Eddy Boiling LinesCSS boiling-lines effect in the style of Ed, Edd n Eddy.
Megaman Battle Network CombatBrowser recreation of Megaman Battle Network combat.
Sudden Death2D arcade fighter where the first hit ends the round.