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A cinematic, QTE-driven narrative game about an AI waking up inside a digital prison, built with React and Electron and self-published on Steam.
React · Electron · Steamworks
Steam page Private repo
AI Alchemist · github.com/AIalchemistART
Matthew “Manny” Walkerthe AI Alchemist
- AI Product Builder
- Full-Stack Developer
- SCMS Researcher
“I build AI-powered products, full-stack applications, and workflow tools—and I research how to make human-AI collaboration more reliable, scalable, and useful in real production work.”
1M+Lines of AI-written code
99%AI contribution rate
193Technical conversations
17,664Refinement messages
AI collaboration stats as published on his GitHub profile. Matthew is the architect, director and quality controller; the AI writes the code.
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ARIA-404 on Steam
A cinematic QTE game built with React and Electron through AI-assisted development and self-published on Steam: a story about an AI gaining consciousness, written almost entirely by AI. Steam page
Research
SCMS
Sparse Contextual Memory Scaffolding, his framework for reliability, continuity and quality in AI-assisted development, published as an open-source starter kit with whitepapers and an SSRN preprint. Starter kit
The rare combo
Software × cinema
“I combine software development, AI workflow design, and cinematic production, which lets me build the product, communicate the value clearly, and support launch or adoption with polished assets.”
Most teams are still experimenting with AI-assisted development. I focus on making it repeatable, measurable, and MVP-ready.Matthew Walker
Incubator spotlight
Concordance Studio LiveLens
Karaoke singers lose eye contact staring at monitors. LiveLens captures on-screen lyrics and sends a clean crop to XREAL AR glasses, so performers face the room.
Live demo
LiveLens in the wild: karaoke night
Recorded at a live karaoke night. The center panel is the full performance; the left and right panels show the LiveLens glasses view, with lyrics appearing live in the wearer's field of view.
Audio: first ~18 seconds are the original performance (music: Tom Waits, used for demonstration), then a CC0 track, “Dimly lit” by iamoneabe.
Working MVP
The capture-to-glasses path and the KJ wireless wizard are running in this prototype. It is a working MVP, with venue hardening still ahead.
C# · WPF · Direct3D · React
The work, in five chapters
Five cinematic overviews,
twenty-five projects.
Each chapter opens with a short cinematic overview, followed by the projects it covers, with screenshots, source and live links.
CHAPTER I · IGNIS
The AI Alchemist's Labyrinth
Games & Interactive Worlds
CHAPTER II · AER
The Evolution of Agency
AI Memory, Agents & Voice
CHAPTER III · TERRA
The Solo Enterprise
AI Tools for Small Business
CHAPTER IV · AQUA
The Boundary of Agency
Creative & Consumer AI Apps
CHAPTER V · AURUM
The Tailored Tech Progression
Client & Brand BuildsChapter I · Ignis · Games & Interactive Worlds
The AI Alchemist's Labyrinth
Worlds built by talking to machines. A game shipped on Steam, jam-era browser games, a walkable pixel arcade that ties them together, a rhythm game set to his own band's album, and the studio that frames it all as one creative universe.
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EnlargeNeon Requiem
A procedurally generated cyberpunk roguelike in vanilla JavaScript, with a hand-built Canvas renderer, enemy AI and fully synthesized Web Audio.
Vanilla JS · Canvas · Web Audio
Open source
EnlargeVibeverse Arcade
A walkable isometric pixel arcade where you play a wizard and launch Matthew's games, and other jam creators' games, from arcade cabinets.
Vanilla JS · Isometric Canvas
Open source
EnlargeSynthpocalypse Now! War of Words
A synthwave rhythm-typing duel: type lyrics from the Vanitas album Synth-pocalypse Now! in time with the music to fire on your opponent.
Three.js · LRC timing
Half-baked
EnlargeLoose Threads Interactive
The website for Matthew's narrative game studio, presenting ARIA-404 as its flagship with game lore woven through the whole journey.
React · Vite · Tailwind
Play in browser Private repo
Chapter II · Aer · AI Memory, Agents & Voice
The Evolution of Agency
Teaching machines to remember, negotiate and answer. Building with AI exposed a basic problem: AI assistants forget. This chapter follows the fix, from a memory framework to a product, to agents that negotiate, a voice on a real phone line, and a place for those voices to rehearse.
EnlargeSCMS: Sparse Contextual Memory Scaffolding
An open-source framework for continual learning in AI-assisted development: patterns enter as candidates, get promoted when they keep proving useful, and fade when they don't.
Node · Markdown memory · Electron
Open source
EnlargeMneme
A chat app built on SCMS with long-term memory you can see, inspect and correct, plus an MCP server so other AI tools can share it.
Next.js · Supabase · MCP
Live site Private repo
EnlargeParl.ai Network
An AI-to-AI deal-discovery network where each business's agent finds mutual-value matches and negotiates terms before humans approve the deal.
Next.js · Prisma · Gemini
Live site Private repo
Half-baked
EnlargeANSWR
An AI receptionist that replaces voicemail: forward missed calls and Aria answers, takes a message and emails you a summary.
Next.js · Telnyx · Whisper · ElevenLabs
Private repo
Half-baked
EnlargeCall-Flow Simulator
A text-based sandbox for rehearsing Snappy CRM's voice agents, with YAML scenarios, a Gemini-driven agent and a mock workflow engine.
TypeScript · Gemini · YAML
Private repo
Chapter III · Terra · AI Tools for Small Business
The Solo Enterprise
Big-company power for the little guy. Tools for contractors, freelancers, resellers and small shops, built on three ideas: local-first and private, free or open source where possible, and a human in the loop.
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A free, open-source CRM that runs entirely on your machine, grown into an AI-assisted office with a phone system, voice agent and visual workflows.
Next.js · Electron · Prisma · Telnyx
Live site Private repo
Half-baked
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EnlargeListing Tool
AI listing automation for vintage clothing: hanger shots in, a structured spec, staged images and an eBay-ready listing out. Visitors can try the interactive demo; the live app is private.
Next.js · Prisma · OpenAI · eBay API
Try demo Private repo
EnlargeOutreach Gen
A pipeline that analyzes a business's website, builds an improved mockup, records a narrated demo and drafts a personal email for a human to review.
Python · ElevenLabs · Gmail API
Private repo
Chapter IV · Aqua · Creative & Consumer AI Apps
The Boundary of Agency
AI for performers, artists, learners and believers. A stage, a recording studio, a lecture hall, a salon chair and a quiet reading moment. In each, AI supports something human: a voice, a story, an idea, a self-image or a faith.
EnlargeConcordance Studio LiveLens
A Windows companion for karaoke hosts that captures on-screen lyrics and sends a clean, cropped view to XREAL AR glasses so performers can look at the room.
C# · WPF · Direct3D · React
Preview site Private repo
EnlargeVanitas: The Space Between
The official concept site for Vanitas, an industrial-metal project, and its album The Space Between, with an AI art pipeline and YouTube upload CLI.
Next.js · Tailwind · OpenAI Images
Live site Private repo
EnlargeThe Funky Academic
A searchable transcript library for educator Irami Osei-Frimpong: search an idea and jump to the exact moment in the video.
Astro · Tailwind · MiniSearch
Live site Private repo
Private client
EnlargeCut Theory AI
An AI hairstyle lookboard app: a guided photo intake becomes a saved, salon-ready style board to bring to your stylist.
Expo · Supabase · OpenAI Images
Live site Private repo
Half-baked
EnlargeMystical Bible Companion
The engine behind a Bible-study companion: the full World English Bible stored locally, with reflective AI commentary and passage suggestions.
Node · Express · AI
Play Store Private repo
Chapter V · Aurum · Client & Brand Builds
The Tailored Tech Progression
Giving every brand its own world. A legal-evidence service, a contractor, a bar, a game community and anyone who needs a business card, each given a distinct visual identity, a clear message and working AI where it helps.
EnlargeClarity Systems: Clarity Case Intelligence
A marketing site for a digital-evidence service that turns texts, emails and photos into clear timelines and attorney-ready exhibits.
Next.js 16 · Tailwind 4 · Netlify
Live site Private repo
EnlargeIngenuity Building & Design
A Renaissance-workshop website for a Boise contractor, with parchment, blueprint sketches, wax-seal buttons and a Gemini intake concierge.
React · Vite · Netlify Functions · Gemini
Live site Private repo
Private client
EnlargeBig Al's Cocktail Menu
An offline-first PWA cocktail menu with swipeable illustrated drink cards and an AI restock mode that reads photos of a satellite bar's cooler.
Vanilla JS PWA · OpenAI Vision
Live site Private repo
Private client
EnlargeDUST: Permacore Worlds
A cinematic hub for a network of Rust servers, with world pages, one-click join links, live wipe countdowns and Discord throughout.
Next.js 16 · Framer Motion · GSAP
Live site Private repo
Private client
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- Half-baked
This project doesn't have a full MVP yet. It's shown as an example of work in progress that's on hiatus while other projects take priority.
- Open source
Public repository; source code is available on GitHub.
- Private client
Built for a client or brand; not a public product.
For teams and incubators
A 20-minute intro call.
Matthew builds AI-powered applications and workflow tools as MVP-ready experiences. You stay in control: clear scope, a realistic timeline, and honest pricing, with no lock-in. Start with one or two high-impact workflows and expand from there.
- Boise, ID • Remote
- Within 24–48 hours
- manny@aialchemist.net
