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Commissioned work: websites, 3D, games, AI and software architecture

I’m a freelance creative developer and software architect, and I’d like to spend more of my time making things like this island for other people. Through my company, Bons AI, I make interactive websites, digital experiences, 3D and VR, AI tools, software and small games.

I like it best when an idea is a little unusual: a story people walk around in instead of read, a site with something hidden in it, a tool nobody has made yet.

What I make

• Interactive websites

  Playful sites that are fun to look around. This island is one. Think of a portfolio you wander through, a map of your town that changes with the seasons, or a shop window that’s a small world of its own. Underneath the 3D, all of the content is plain text, so search engines and screen readers can read it too. Simpler sites, without the 3D, I make as well.

• Digital experiences

  Something to explore or play, for a launch, an exhibition, a campaign or a story you want to tell: a treasure hunt through a building, a game on a big screen at a fair, a story you click your way through. In the browser, on a phone or on a big screen.

• 3D

  Worlds like this one, assets made to fit them, and buildings. Below is a house I modelled. You can walk through it in the browser or in VR, watch the sun move through it at any hour of any day, and compare the house as it is with a plan for rebuilding it, worked out with AI.

• AI

  Tools and experiments with language and image models: an assistant that answers from your own documents, a story that writes itself as you play, a way through a pile of work nobody wants to do by hand. That can be a prototype to see whether an idea holds up, or something that runs in production. I’ve built a generator for complete Magic: The Gathering sets and an AI opponent for a Magic engine, among other things.

• Software architecture and applications

  Software architecture is my day job: I design the systems behind a platform for trading on the power market. I can do the same for you, from a first sketch to an application running in production, or take a careful look at a system you already have. I like it best when there’s something creative or unusual about it.

• Games

  Small games and prototypes, made for you or with you: a mini-game for a campaign, a game for a museum, or a first playable version of an idea you’ve been carrying around. And if you’re making a game and our taste overlaps, I’d love to team up.

Things I’ve made

• This island: a pixel-art 3D world with a kayak game, seasons and the real weather
• Argentum: a Magic: The Gathering rules engine and game client that I worked on with others. It’s roughly 2,600 hours of work so far, which without AI would have taken a team years (how it was built)
• Talespinner: a tool for writers, to spin stories together with AI
• The blog: what I’ve learned along the way

How it works

We start with a conversation about what you have in mind. Then I estimate a budget, and we agree on when we look at the work together along the way.

You get one person doing the design, the 3D, the code and the sound. I work four days a week and the fifth is for commissions, so plan for weeks for a small project and months for a big one. That day goes further than it sounds: I build fast, with tools I’ve made for it, like the ones behind this island.

I use AI throughout my work, as you might have guessed from this island. It’s a big part of why I’m fast. So if you’d rather keep AI well away from your project, I’m not the one to hire.

I work from the Arnhem–Nijmegen area, for clients in the Netherlands and abroad, in Dutch or English. Remote works fine.

Questions

What does it cost?

Smaller jobs, changes and upkeep go at €100 an hour. To give you an idea of a project: I’d estimate a house to walk through in VR, like the one above, at around €2,500. Bigger projects, like a game or a virtual experience, I estimate first, once we’ve talked through what you want. All excluding VAT.

When can you start?

That depends on what I’m working on at the time. Send me an email and I’ll tell you.

Get in touch

Tell me what you’d like to make, and roughly when. We can start with an email, a short call, or a cup of coffee.

Or find me on LinkedIn, GitHub or X.

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