Jason Respress: writing and dev logsWriting and dev logs by Jason Respress, from OTG Studio.https://jrespress.com/Day 0: The theme, the rules, and an empty projecthttps://jrespress.com/devlog/megajam-2026/2026-11-11-day-0/https://jrespress.com/devlog/megajam-2026/2026-11-11-day-0/The theme is Director's Cut. The rules say gameplay and art get made during the four days, so the engine I'd built stays out and the game starts from an empty Unreal project.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 21:50:00 GMTCohorts: What Changes When More Than One Team Is Working With Agentshttps://jrespress.com/writing/cohorts/https://jrespress.com/writing/cohorts/When more than one team works with agents, the seam between them is a ledger of measured claims that the receiving side re-verifies, not shared context.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Agents Don't Need Better Prompts. They Need Better Managers.https://jrespress.com/writing/ai-agents-need-better-managers/https://jrespress.com/writing/ai-agents-need-better-managers/Nine months running a development organization of one human and a rotating workforce of AI agents. What made it work was not prompt engineering. It was management.Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTA Year of Betting on Local AI for Game Dev: What Worked, What Didn't, and What's Actually Blocking Ithttps://jrespress.com/writing/a-year-of-betting-on-local-ai/https://jrespress.com/writing/a-year-of-betting-on-local-ai/What a year of building game-dev tools on local AI models taught me: the system matters more than the model, integration is mostly plumbing, and a few hard limits still keep local AI out of shipped games.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT