Philip Ludington

I’m a game director in Austin, TX building Stellar Throne — a sci-fi 4X with rich exploration, competent AI opponents, and AI-assisted development. Weekly updates on solo dev, agentic coding, and building ambitious games with modern tools.
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Stellar Throne
A Stylized Sci-Fi 4X Game Built with AI and Zig
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Recent activity

Ground Combat & Territory Borders Revamped

Stellar Throne Changelog Week of August 8–15, 2025

When the Bug Breaks Before You Do

Bugs, Battles, and Brainstorms

Redesigning the Battlefield: Combat UI Overhaul & ClaudeCraft Takes Shape

Patching Up Combat and Building Better Testing Tools

Opus 4.1, GUT Migration, and Combat UI Overhaul

🔧 Upgrading to Godot 4.3 (Opus 4.1) and Combat UI Progress

This week's Newsletter

🪐 Combat Returns (Sort Of)

🧠 Refactoring with AI: Lessons in Trust, Testing, and Prompts

🧪 Closing the Parity Gap in Godot

✅ Godot Port Complete (Mostly!)

✅ Godot Port Complete (Mostly!)

📦 Stellar Throne: Porting Progress & Platform Trade-Offs

🚀 Stellar Throne Enters Alpha: Polish, Audio, and the Godot Port Begins

🎮 Stellar Throne Devlog — Phase 6 Complete, Diplomacy & Polish Begin

🧠 Agentic Game Development

Refactoring, Regression Fixes, and the Case Against Unit Tests?

Stellar Throne – A Stylized Sci-Fi 4X Game Built with AI and Zig