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I built my first 3D Steam game solo — demo live

Built my first Steam game — demo just went live yesterday with zero marketing.

I started out just wanting to make another small Android app. Somehow ended up building a full 3D survival game

with a dog companion, base building, power grid, farming and four seasons instead 😄

By My Side is an open-world survival-craft game where you tame a stray dog and raise it as your loyal companion.

Demo just went live on Steam before 48h — got 115 wishlists and 1200+ library adds in 48 hours, all organic.

Would love any feedback from fellow solo devs! Build all on my old i5 7500 with GTX1060.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4859700/By_My_Side/

u/SubjectNo2985 — 4 days ago
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I Build a open-world survival-craft game with demo

Built my first Steam game — demo just went live yesterday with zero marketing.

I started out just wanting to make another small Android app. Somehow ended up building a full 3D survival game with a dog companion, base building, power grid, farming and four seasons instead 😄

By My Side is an open-world survival-craft game where you tame a stray dog and raise it as your loyal companion.

Demo just went live on Steam yesterday — got 75 wishlists and 760+ library adds in under 24 hours, all organic.

Would love any feedback from solo devs! Build all on my old i5 7500 with GTX1060.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4859700/By_My_Side/

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u/SubjectNo2985 — 5 days ago
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I built a fully offline, private AI creative studio that runs on a cheap old 6GB GPU — should I open-source it?

Hey everyone,

Over the last weeks I've been building a 100% local, offline, private AI studio on my own PC — no cloud, no API keys, no subscriptions, nothing leaves the machine. It started as a personal project because I didn't want my data on someone else's servers, and it kind of grew into a full creative suite.

The thing I'm most happy about: it's all wrapped in one clean desktop app (single window, desktop icon). No ComfyUI node spaghetti, no terminal — my non-technical friends can actually use it. Under the hood it's all open-source tools glued together.

What it does right now (all offline):

  • Image generation — FLUX (GGUF) + several SD1.5 models, with a built-in prompt optimizer (a local LLM rewrites your casual/German text into a proper English prompt)
  • 4K upscaling — 4x-UltraSharp + tiled Ultimate SD Upscale (real added detail, not just resize)
  • img2img reworking
  • Image → 3D model (TripoSR / Hunyuan3D) for .obj export
  • Face-swap (ReActor) and lip-sync / talking photos (LivePortrait) — fully offline
  • Local chat — Ollama (Qwen3.5, DeepSeek-R1, a vision model, etc.) behind an Open WebUI dashboard
  • Local coding agent — Aider + local models, with an auto test→repair loop and a little "auto-splitter" that breaks one big prompt into small steps so weaker local models don't choke
  • Code-RAG — Qdrant + embeddings for semantic search across my own projects
  • Context size auto-scales to whatever GPU is installed — zero manual tuning

The fun part — the hardware: most of this runs on a GTX 1060 6GB (yeah, an ancient Pascal card). It's slow, sure, but it works. I'm about to drop in an RTX 3060 12GB + 32GB RAM and add local video (LTX-2 / Wan 2.2), text-to-music, voice cloning (TTS), and local LoRA training.

Why I built it: I think people should be able to run this stuff for free, on their own hardware, with their data staying home. It's not trying to beat cloud models on raw quality — it's about ownership.

My question to you:

Is something like this worth open-sourcing on GitHub? Would anyone actually use a "one-click private AI studio" that bundles these tools behind a simple UI? If yes:

  • What would you want most (better docs, an installer, specific features)?
  • Any advice on license (MIT? GPL?) given it wraps a bunch of other open-source projects?
  • Would you rather have the launcher/UI as the open-source piece, since the underlying models/tools are already public?

Happy to share screenshots/a demo if there's interest. Not selling anything — just want to know if it's useful to more than just me. Cheers 🙏

Edit// Thank you to the community <3. You will find the project on ai.overlkd.com

u/SubjectNo2985 — 5 days ago