https://islandside.dev Field notes from the intersection of game development and applied AI — UEFN/Verse, agent automation, and quantitative systems. en-us Thu, 07 May 2026 21:24:58 GMT https://islandside.dev/blog/building-zombie-tycoon-uefn https://islandside.dev/blog/building-zombie-tycoon-uefn How I tuned wave-by-wave difficulty in Zombie Tycoon — a UEFN survival tycoon — using Verse, an exponential payout curve, and a touch of Monte-Carlo balance. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT game-dev https://islandside.dev/blog/agents-that-actually-finish https://islandside.dev/blog/agents-that-actually-finish Five LLM-agent patterns I keep reaching for when I need an agent to reliably complete real work — not just demo well. Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT ai-and-automation https://islandside.dev/blog/poisson-arrival-times-game-balance https://islandside.dev/blog/poisson-arrival-times-game-balance The Poisson distribution shows up everywhere in game design — drop rates, enemy spawns, queueing — and most of the time we're using it wrong. A short primer. Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT quantitative-logic