C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026what pretraining looks like #CATCHAT is using a stat-of-the-art GRU-L3-V3a #LLM written with #LLVM #CPP and #Vulkan #compute #shaders . no python, training on our first #dataset of dialogue 397M dialogue turns tokens and 78.9m parameters as for our phase0 #pretraining running on 1x L40S by #NVIDIA 131
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Update: implemented new research to fix epoch 2 from using Block 64 from linear sequence (combine similar dialogue together instead of pure random) frontier post has been updated. read about it hear -> frontier.catgameresearch.net/gru-l3-v3-ch... #AI #RNN #GRU #RESEARCH #LLM #DEVLOG #TECHNOLOGYfrontier.catgameresearch.netGRU-L3 V3: Character-Level Pretraining on a 4.8M Parameter RNN — FrontierA compact 4.8M parameter GRU-L3 character-level language model trained on a single RTX 3080 Ti via a custom Vulkan compute backend. Architecture, WSD-S scheduling research, a regression and recovery c... 010
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026our first epoch of our experimental Cat Chat LLM is almost complete, and showing a lot of promise, read more about it here frontier.catgameresearch.net/gru-l3-v3-ch...frontier.catgameresearch.netGRU-L3 V3: Character-Level Pretraining on a 4.8M Parameter RNN — FrontierA compact 4.8M parameter GRU-L3 character-level language model trained on a single RTX 3080 Ti via a custom Vulkan compute backend. Architecture, research findings, training telemetry, and the path fr... 000
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 16/08/2026beta testing some designs for our signup feature here. Let us know what you think? This will allow you to access our beta Steam keys and such, as content and exclusives. catgameresearch.net/profile.htmlcatgameresearch.netProfile — Cat Game ResearchAuthentication and onboarding for the C.A.T. operator ecosystem. 000
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Server upgrade complete. 99.99% uptime. We are not interplanetary quite yet, but getting there. At-least we have the map. Claim your martian website today at your.name.mars. Call for custom quote today! Luna coming soon. catgameresearch.net//server-status #devlog #domains #websites #interplanetarycatgameresearch.netV-WORLD // NETWORK STATUSV-world network status and swarm telemetry. 030
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Server's receiving an upgraded, and will be back online by 8:30 am EST. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thank you everyone for stopping by and checking out our content. We would love to hear from you! Send an email to humans@catgameresearch.net to get in touch with a human. 020
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026After several years of research by @samanthahoriz0n.bsky.social ; we finally have successfully completed our "Bard Talks To Bing" vertical slice using our own pure C++ agent harness and local model inference. read more about the endless debate here: frontier.catgameresearch.net/pi-arena-end... 020
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026In depth deep dive into the mechanics and magic that makes point and click adventures come to life frontier.catgameresearch.net/anatomy-poin...frontier.catgameresearch.netThe Anatomy of Point-and-Click Games — FrontierA case study of Grim Fandango — and what a 1996 puzzle-dependency chart from a defunct adventure studio still has to teach a live AI-development industry about specification, verification, and design. 000
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026first public mod xn--1xa.mods.catgameresearch.net local sandboxed llm inference for game devxn--1xa.mods.catgameresearch.net 021
Reposted by C.A.T /// Cat Game Researchรค๓คภtђค ๒єฬเtςђє๔ 🏳️⚧️ @samanthahoriz0n.bsky.social · 10/08/2026X-men covers with trans and femme color pallettes. #ComicSky 021
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026so we made a prompt compiler to save on tokens. read more about it here. frontier.catgameresearch.net/compact-inst...frontier.catgameresearch.netCIC: The Compact Instruction Compiler — FrontierA compiler for agent instruction files: Markdown → PIR → compact Markdown, with a custom line-oriented intermediate language called PIR. 020
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 02/08/2026latest news update of what we have been working on this weekend. gpu training is about 90% ready for production. still lots more optimization paths. frontier.catgameresearch.net/dual-stream-... #aidev #devlog #ai #dev #ml #cpp #vulkan #artificialintelligencefrontier.catgameresearch.netDual-Stream GRU-L3 GPU Training: Breakthroughs and New Obstacles — FrontierWe scaled a custom Vulkan training pipeline from a toy benchmark to a real dual-stream GRU-L3 model. The harness now clears every incremental stage, but a long-sequence NaN and a stubborn CPU/GPU grad... 020
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026pre-training our first ai model, CAT LM, using our first engine mod, #NN , this is using our release version of our #Vulkan Compute Shaders. Not using #CUDA or #python, #CPP only. live training stats here bench.catgameresearch.net/llm/index.html #ai #ml #gamedev #pretraining #dev #linux #agentsbench.catgameresearch.netCat LLM Training Report 181
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026latest dream graph youtu.be/ZZq-Jasdl_c 3k nodes 4k edges. also check out this new lab page about deeper philosophies of Tau te Ching lab.catgameresearch.net/tao_te_ching... #devlog #dreams #philosophy #dev #dreamgraphlab.catgameresearch.netThe Tao Te Ching — 81 Chapters for a Modern World 031
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 18/07/2026our website catgameresearch.net will be going offline from 7:15 AM to 8:15 AM EST for routine maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience, and how to see you again when our upgrade is finished. Thank you everyone for your support and kind words. #catgameresearch #catgame #devlog #statusupdatecatgameresearch.netCat Game Research — Engine, Game, and Behavioral IntelligenceCatGame is a custom C++20 Vulkan engine and game project featuring behavioral intelligence research, Go RL training, VFX systems, and side-scroll gameplay. 020
Reposted by C.A.T /// Cat Game Researchรค๓คภtђค ๒єฬเtςђє๔ 🏳️⚧️ @samanthahoriz0n.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Hollywood trope that's starting to get overused fast: First episode has a well developed character played by an A list actor who gets killed off before the episode ends. I've seen this 3 times in the past 2 months on Netflix. 19696
Reposted by C.A.T /// Cat Game Researchรค๓คภtђค ๒єฬเtςђє๔ 🏳️⚧️ @samanthahoriz0n.bsky.social · 17/07/2026It's fun watching the Captain enjoy a second childhood of wonder and discovery. I can't wait to see his band 🤘 021
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026One of our favorite ai agent benchmarks. check it out. frontier.catgameresearch.net/bijan-bowen-...frontier.catgameresearch.netThe Bijan Bowen Benchmark: Why Practitioner Testing Beats Academic Benchmarks — FrontierSWE-bench scores don't tell you if a model can build a browser OS from scratch. Bijan Bowen's nine-task generative coding suite does. We formalize his methodology, prove it satisfies separability and ... 030
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Cognition lost Windsurf's CEO to Google's $2.4B heist last year when OpenAI's $3B offer expired. 72 hours later, they had a deal with Cognition. A year on: revenue 10x++, team 44→250, pioneered agent swarms. frontier.catgameresearch.net/cognition-sh... #AI #Cognition #Devin #AgenticAI #devfrontier.catgameresearch.netThe 72-Hour Bet: How Cognition Turned a CEO Heist into a 10x Empire — FrontierWhen Google poached Windsurf's CEO in a $2.4B acqui-hire, the 250-person team was left leaderless. Cognition called on Friday at 5PM. By Monday morning, they had a deal. Twelve months later, revenue i... 121
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026NEW #GAME; #Idleclicker to scrape data, train models on IP you don't own, distill rival AIs, and trigger model collapse for prestige. MANGO is a satire of every AI corp's business model. The discomfort is the point. Enjoy. frontier.catgameresearch.net/mango.html #gamedev #games #ai #freetoplay 052
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026UPDATE: finished updating rabbit island with burrows, carrots, snuggling, and trees. also fixed the issue with the rabbit model not loading. Also added a beach for rabbits to catch a tan. games.catgameresearch.net/rabbit-islan... #gamedev #indiedev #rabbitgame #bunnies #games #webgame #ai #webgl 081
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Most NPCs feel like costumes reading lines. The NPC Persona Builder turns character design into real, reusable behavior—how they feel, think, and respond using emotion, MBTI, bias, and communication principles. frontier.catgameresearch.net/npc-persona-... #gamedev #GameDesign #NPC #Psychology #AIfrontier.catgameresearch.netThe NPC Persona Builder: Engineering Believable Characters from Real Psychology — FrontierMost NPCs are scripts wearing a costume. The NPC Persona Builder treats character design as a behavioral engineering problem — combining Plutchik's emotion wheel, MBTI personality types, 55 cognitive ... 192
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026AI models are students that teacher. If we tagged every training sample with its source, license, and creator, then paid them automatically? Tech exists. Legal framework is coming. IP ownership ledger starts here. frontier.catgameresearch.net/provenance-t... #AI #Provenance #Copyright #Ethicsfrontier.catgameresearch.netThe Provenance Ledger: Auditing AI's Memory and Paying Its Teachers — FrontierEvery training sample carries a story — who made it, under what license, and how it was acquired. If we tag every sample with its provenance, we can audit what a model knows, pay the creators who taug... 001
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026AI companies strip-mine the internet to feed their bottom line. Research shows that they will collapse under their own exhaust. Future is small, bespoke models on local NVIDIA AMD hardware; only with trust boundaries. frontier.catgameresearch.net/distillation... #AI #NVIDIA #Ethics #frontierfrontier.catgameresearch.netDistillation Farming: Why the AI Scraping Economy Will Eat Itself — FrontierAI companies are strip-mining the internet to feed their models. The research says they'll collapse under their own exhaust. The future belongs to small, bespoke models running on local NVIDIA hardwar... 011
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026New frontier post: drawing 204 tiles in one GPU draw call from a flat uint16_t grid. How we're adapting GPU tilemap instancing for Cat Game's Vulkan engine. frontier.catgameresearch.net/gpu-instance... #gamedev #devlog #gamedesign #vulkan #cpp #design #frontier #ai #devfrontier.catgameresearch.netDrawing the World in One Call: GPU Instanced Tile Rendering — FrontierThe new tileset editor stores levels as a flat uint16_t grid. That's the same data layout modern GPU tilemap renderers use to draw 10,000 tiles in a single draw call. Here's how we're adapting that ar... 071
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026DIY: How to Build a Brain, from scratch. Explore the introduction on how brains are constructed. frontier.catgameresearch.net/building-a-b... #gamedev #devlog #gameai #brains #psychology #ai #ml #computerscience #philosophyfrontier.catgameresearch.netBuilding a Brain: The Architecture of Emergent Intelligence — FrontierHow six interlocking knowledge systems — built across four months in 2026 — created the behavioral substrate for the next generation of non-player character design. 170
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Check out the new Dream Studio, where you can edge, merge, and shuffle around your agents dream graph with manual or batch editing. dreams.catgameresearch.net/studio.html #gamedev #catgame #cats #dreams #dreamgraph #indiedev #aidreams #cybernetics #memorygraph #memory 0204
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Check out our new #papers website to find all of our latest #research and #pdf #whitepapers papers.catgameresearch.net created by @samanthahoriz0n.bsky.social and @p3ngu1nzz.bsky.social #gamedev #gameresearch #math #computerscience #ai #gametheorypapers.catgameresearch.netCat Game Research — Papers 170
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026new dream graph is live, some better improvements to navigation and rendering optimizations. dreams.catgameresearch.net this updates frequently so check back often. #gamedev #devlog #gamedreamsdreams.catgameresearch.netDREAM::GRAPH :: Cognitive Consolidation Report 181
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026🧪 The CatGame Research Lab is live! Explore behavioral intelligence tools, MBTI explorer, emotion visualizer, 48 Laws of Power & more. Big thanks to designer @samanthahoriz0n.bsky.social for creating it ✨ 👉 lab.catgameresearch.net #GameDev #BehavioralScience #GameResearch #CatGame #IndieDevlab.catgameresearch.netCat Game Research — Behavioral Intelligence Studio 182
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The metaverse keeps failing because everyone builds experiences instead of infrastructure. We are building the OASIS from the silicon up. V Engine is the first operating system for virtual worlds. C.A.T. Game, our live world. One engine. One foundation. Every world that follows. #gamedev #openworld 1101
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Exciting new update dropping soon. Stay tuned for some behind the scenes content on what new AMAZING new breakthroughs in real time ray tracing and material rendering. Steam page coming soon~ beta signup: catgameresearch.com humans@catgameresearch.net #gamedev #news #catgame #game #devlog #devcatgameresearch.comCat Game ResearchSignup to Find Out More. 182
C.A.T /// Cat Game Research @catgameresearch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Hard at work getting our steam store page ready for submission whilst trying to debug the engine and build out our title screen and other meta screens. Screenshots and Demo Trailer Coming soon. Playtest will be open as soon as the submission is approved. Linux + Windows. #gamedev #catgame #gameart 2123