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Richard Watson

@solvxuk.bsky.social
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Agentic Engineer | Business Consultant | ACCA Accountant | AI Engineer Looking for problems to solve... if you have one then I am your man!

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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 13h
Describe the film you want, in ordinary language. Get the film. Project Bright now runs on Claude Code and Codex. Free to use. solvx.uk/go/pb-bs #buildinpublic #Claude #Codex #AI #AIvideo #videoproduction #filmmaking #contentcreation #indiefilm #madewithai
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 14h
2 days, Claude Code, GPT Astra and a lot of head scratching. Up to 16 players racing London at once. Worst frame went from 283ms to 33ms. I need 16 people and I am one guy. Come and play: solvx.uk/go/mll-bs #buildinpublic #Claude #gamedev #multiplayer
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The map keeps growing across London. All of it driveable, all of it raceable. Custom controls in, and mobile controls too - that one came from a comment on LinkedIn. solvx.uk/go/mll-bs #buildinpublic #Claude #gamedev #mobilegaming #webgl #londongame
A dark map of east and central London showing Shoreditch, Whitechapel, Bermondsey, Poplar and Greenwich, with a driven route traced in white near Tower Bridge and a YOU marker on it.
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Mobile controls are now active. Gas, brake and handbrake on screen. No app, no download - just a browser tab on your phone. Waiting for challengers on the bridge. solvx.uk/go/mll-bs #buildinpublic #Claude #gamedev #mobilegaming #webgl
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Race anyone in the world through the streets of London. No download. No install. Click a link and you are driving. I'm on Tower Bridge all weekend. solvx.uk/go/ml7-bs #buildinpublic #Claude #gamedev #multiplayer #webgl #indiedev #londongame #racinggame #madewithai
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
With you there. I suspect that Unity and Unreal will continue along the current path with MCP servers and CLI tools and stay relevant for the near future. It is possible to do a lot without them but why re-invent the wheel when you need them - akin to your point about large teams and builds.
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Drive the London map, with built-in sat nav. Open the map, drop a pin anywhere, and the HUD navigates you there. This exact build is live and playable: solvx.uk/go/ml6-bs Next build turns it into an open race mode. #buildinpublic #Claude #gamedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The race is back - and it is a little hairy. 3 laps from a grid on Tower Bridge, real physics, nothing to install. This exact build is live and playable right now: solvx.uk/go/ml-next5 #buildinpublic #Claude #gamedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An interesting point there. This is just me and my project - no teams, deadlines or bosses.
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just the one prompt - it ran over into 3 sessions in the end. And nothing close to what i had from Claude in 1 hour.
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hard to drive - and I think that is the win. A sports car over Tower Bridge at 150kph plus is hard in real life too. So what next? Missiles, time trials, helicopters? Tell me in the comments. solvx.uk/go/ml-bs #buildinpublic #Claude #gamedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Full physics, instead of fixing each driving bug one at a time. Easy with Claude Code, and more fun to drive than I expected. No arcade twist. Race and map return next. Then what? Missiles, time trials, helicopters? solvx.uk/go/ml-bs #buildinpublic #Claude #gamedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Is Opus 5.5 the Unity killer? I dropped Unity for a TypeScript web build. 6,049 lines of C# became 856. A 305MB download became 81MB. Build and publish went from 6 minutes to 20 seconds. Every build goes live: solvx.uk/go/ml-bs #buildinpublic #Claude #Unity
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Want an angry spider in your phone? Tap the glass to call her. Shake it and she gets angry. Then she attacks. Best on a phone: solvx.uk/spider Built by Claude Code. I left Codex for dead again. #buildinpublic #Claude #Codex #blender #webgl #gamedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Before this even published, Claude had added controls — she goes where I tell her. For now, at least. Next she shows her fangs and attacks. Then I put her in your phone.
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Codex vs Claude Code. GPT-6 Astra vs Opus 5.5. Scary spider challenge. Codex hit its usage limit in minutes and did an ok job across two 5-hour windows. While I waited, Claude Code did this in about an hour. Don't believe the hype. #buildinpublic #Codex #Claude #blender #3D
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's free and open source to start but I have had no reason to look else where. Very low users on the server so for dev work it is a winner! My other projects is splitfire.solvx.uk - a rather novel way to run web multiplayer all of my own creation.
splitfire.aolvx.uk
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Testing Codex with GPT-6 Astra, and I wanted something that stands out. A spider. Modelled and rigged in Blender, all 8 legs, then animated to make your skin crawl. Or is that a spider crawl? #buildinpublic #blender #b3d #3D #rigging #gamedev #indiedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
a Colyseus server (open-source, Node.js/TypeScript) running on a small Hetzner VPS behind nginx. keen to talk multiplayer systems as I think i have something quite novel in another project.
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Türkçe bir fincan çay bile sipariş edemem, ama ChatGPT sayesinde uluslararası bağlantıları memnuniyetle karşılıyorum. JEV konusunda ben de oldukça heyecanlıyım. Özellikle agent router’ları için çok doğal bir kullanım alanı gibi görünüyor; bakalım pratikte ne kadar ileri götürebileceğiz. Teşekkürler
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hell yeah! 😂 I think this may be the missing link for agents!
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Finally the agent behaves. Am I a genius, or is this Jev at work? It rejected me. "Not sure which of my skills fits, so I haven't run anything." Three closest matches, pick one. A refusal is the win. 188ms, $0.00018. #buildinpublic #AI #agents #Jev #Claude
A screenshot of the Percy agent's chat interface. The user asks about email counts. The agent replies: I'm not sure which of my skills fits, so I haven't run anything and I haven't learned a new route, then lists three closest matching skills and asks the user to pick. A debug line reads 188 milliseconds, 5025 tokens, $0.00018354, and the run is marked Failure recorded.
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A few days into building a Greater London 3D model. You can drive around what I have so far — pick free mode. solvx.uk/go/ml-bs #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #blender #b3d #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #3D
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is live. Go and play it. 7 AI cars, 3 laps, difficulty hard, across Tower Bridge and through London. No install, straight in your browser, running on my own VPS. mylondon.solvx.uk/play #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Typical. Opus 5.5 makes me an AI opponent that I cannot beat. First test of the racing build and the AI car is gone. Absolutely gone. I wrote it, and it left me for dead on Tower Bridge. Posting the fails too. #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From driving to racing. Testing this as an 8 player, 1 vs AI racing game. Caterhams off the line on Tower Bridge and out through the city. Playable online soon. #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #racinggame #3D
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thankfully this time it was some well places optimism from Claude.
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A test run to cover all of London. Claude Code is building 500m square grids and we are checking off the tiles to make sure they fit together. Once this is done, it gets to work covering the full Greater London area. #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #blender #b3d #3D #gamedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Project Bright cut it. It runs on the free web version of Claude Code, and on a subscription it is virtually free. For clipping and stitching live footage it is particularly efficient. Available now on GitHub. #buildinpublic #opensource #claudecode #videoediting
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
10 million tokens and 24 hours with Opus 5.5. I am now driving a manual Caterham over Tower Bridge and around a 1.5km square of central London. Textured buildings, trees, lamp posts, grass, and a gear stick that moves. #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #unity3d #gamedev #3D
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Driving over Tower Bridge in my Caterham. From a single prompt to a Unity build: 1.5km of London mapped accurately, and the car rendered in full. That is the whole thing working. #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #blender #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #3D
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A sneak peek at the final stage of the Opus 5.5 project. A rendered Caterham Super 7, with procedural animation driving the suspension, wheels and steering wheel. The London map is finished. Next I put the two together. #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #blender #b3d #3D #gamedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1 prompt, 5 passes. Tower Bridge building itself from bare piers to spires, chains, lamp posts, buses and people on the walkway. Next: bridge into Unity, build from a map, drop in a Caterham and go for a drive. #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #blender #b3d #unity3d #3D #gamedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pass 4. A reference image this time, and I asked for photorealism. Late afternoon light, and the bridge now has a whole city behind it. Then it stopped on its own to ask if this was right. #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #blender #b3d #proceduralgeneration #3D #gamedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Third pass on the procedural Tower Bridge, and I have given it no further instructions. It keeps adding detail on its own. Turrets, the high walkway, and now the bascules actually lift. #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #blender #b3d #proceduralgeneration #3D #gamedev #indiedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Opus 5.5 landed today, so I pointed it at Blender. One prompt. No reference image, no prep. It wrote the procedural geometry and animated it, and this is the first attempt. #buildinpublic #Opus55 #Claude #blender #b3d #proceduralgeneration #3D #gamedev #indiedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Manhattan, then a pull back to the office above it. Image gen for the scene, procedural animation for the move. Built in Project Bright. solvx.uk/go/pb-bs #buildinpublic #imagegen #proceduralanimation #opensource #claudecode #AI #videoproduction #motiondesign #indiedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Much appreciated. I will for sure
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Caricature 3D model — solved. Separate head and body meshes, merged back into one. Manual cleanup in Blender to match head to neck. 150,032 verts. 300,348 tris. Quite impressed, even if I do say so myself. Sign off next, then rig and animate. #buildinpublic #3D #blender #gamedev #b3d
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Introducing Project Bright. I'll let the video do the talking. solvx.uk/go/pb-bs #buildinpublic #opensource #claudecode #AI #videoproduction #automation #agenticai #devtools #indiedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Back to faces, and this one is hard. Last time I just needed a face. This time it has to match a specific image, and Trellis2 is not good at faces. Splitting the head into its own mesh failed. So: sweep the seeds, pick the best, run again. #buildinpublic #3D #gamedev #blender
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bringing the brain and the head to the party. Segmented the head, positioned the brain inside the model, then blew them both up. The effects are starting to come together. The brief asks for Braindead level gore, so the faint hearted should look away. #buildinpublic #3D #blender #gamedev #vfx
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Told you. Claude Code segmented the 3D brain, then blew it up 🤯 You may wish to look away for the next few posts. solvx.uk/go/3d-bs #buildinpublic #3D #blender #gamedev #claudecode #3dart #b3d
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I made a brain. My first non-human 3D model through Trellis2. A few holes, but nothing to worry about. Next I'm going to make it explode 🤯 solvx.uk/go/3d-bs #buildinpublic #3D #blender #gamedev #trellis2 #3dart #b3d
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And here we are. A little thick for my liking, but more like a liquid. Very easy with Claude Code — I can't claim much credit. High res liquid sim on my GPU, plot the particles, transpose onto a maths version to match. Built for low spec machines. #buildinpublic #3D #gamedev #blender
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Balls! Trying to get a low res blood effect. Looks good from afar, but far from good — on closer inspection the splatter lands as spheres. Blood does not behave like this. Claude reckons we can make the droplets read as liquid. solvx.uk/go/3d-bs #buildinpublic #3D #gamedev
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
And the final curtain. Left hand bound to the moving pump, right hand to the gun, every connection held across all frames. I had never animated anything until a few weeks ago. Human-AI teamwork: I set the joint and bone position, AI ran it through 50 frames. #buildinpublic #3D #gamedev #blender
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I live in the cage and from it build your world. You exist only outside of the box.
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Procedural animation, via a Claude Code and Blender bridge. Isolate the pump action, restrict its movement to the axis of the gun itself. Still manual here, but it's the home straight. Just rigging and finger crossing to go. solvx.uk/go/3d-bs #buildinpublic #3D #gamedev #blender
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Richard Watson @solvxuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The final thumb moves into place. Hand position is set. Next: the pump action bind for the left hand, and a procedural animation for that part. Also finally worked out how to get Claude Code to copy a frame through into the full clip. #buildinpublic #3D #gamedev #blender #rigging #animation
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