Sylvia GM’s Public Alpha is coming by Sunday, 18 October
The 96-spell launch build is together, with Public Alpha coming by Sunday.
Sylvia GM
Development record
Written by Wan
Development journal
What changed, what failed, and what is still unfinished.
Date
Entry
File
SRD Lite first, full spells after launch
The plan is to launch with SRD Lite, then continue the full spell suite after release.
A release update, and how I’ve been using dots
I vastly underestimated how much time it would take to integrate 339 spells into the game engine.
Astra arrived. Public Alpha is close.
Focused testing is done. A six-act campaign test is underway, with Public Alpha expected by 4 October if it passes and the final checks are clear.
Still waiting for Astra
Sol's first Sylvia GM rebuild had plenty wrong with it. The implementation has improved a lot since then, and I want to see what Astra does with the same project.
Trigger Discipline and the half-empty magazine
A second ruleset forced Sylvia GM to learn where the bullet went, what stood in its way, and where the old magazine landed.
Dev Log, July 25, 2026
Model tradeoffs, the ruleset rebuild, ComfyUI experiments, and the two-day detour that became The Yes Folder.
Kimi K3 and the death of the loop
A new coding workflow, ruleset-declared interface panels, MCP mechanics, and the old quick-start Builder flow.
Dev Log, July 12, 2026
The agentic engineering experiment hits a wall: model limits, splash-screen trouble, and an awkward Builder handoff.
Dev Log, July 9, 2026
From AI skeptic to building an open-source AI DM agent: why the project exists and where version 0.1 stood.