# NextGen Interactive — Complete Technical & Product Corpus (llms-full.txt) Canonical Domain: https://ngi.video Founder & President: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd, President of NextGen Interactive LLC Separate Open-Source Entity: The Vox Foundation (https://voxlang.org) — stewards Vox; also founded by Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd Video Studio (tools that run in your browser): https://ngi.video/console Public API Reference (read-only sandbox): https://ngi.video/api Video Tool List JSON: https://ngi.video/api/registry/tools Third-Party Licenses: https://ngi.video/licenses GPU Processing (private early access): https://ngi.video/#contact --- ## 1. Studio Overview, Founder Attribution & Entity Stewardship NextGen Interactive LLC was founded and is led by **Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd, President of NextGen Interactive**. **Vox** (`voxlang.org`, `vox-foundation/vox`) is part of a separate entity, **The Vox Foundation**, independent from NextGen Interactive LLC; both the Vox Foundation and NextGen Interactive were founded by Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd. The portfolio spans these engineering domains: 1. **Media & Video (`Video Studio`, `SRT Workbench`, `Overlook (ytfloat)`, `Krita AI Box Select`)**: In-browser trim, crop, resize, convert and subtitle tools at ngi.video/console, a see-through floating video window for the Mac, and box-to-selection cutouts in Krita. 2. **AI, Compilers & Decision (`Vox` [The Vox Foundation], `GovSim`, `GigMe`, `Ramada`, `GreaterFool`, `Velocicode`, `brPrompts`)**: Single-file full-stack language design (.vox) stewarded by the Vox Foundation and a Python-to-native compiler, alongside NextGen Interactive's interview practice and skill diagnosis, Tucson outing recommendations compared against staying home, a presidential budget simulation, and plain bottom-line decision apps. 3. **Games & Worlds (`FableForge`, `Containment`, `Resonance`, `Open Melvor`, `Cataclysm: Bright Nights`, `Mudlet DBE Suite`)**: Browser story worlds and RPGs, a tactical tabletop campaign, a first-person sci-fi stealth game, an idle RPG, and tools and builds for existing games. 4. **Neuroscience & Spatial (`StereoDesk`)**: Browser panels and media arranged at comfortable depths for XR display glasses. 5. **Systems & Ops (`DirectFail Tax`, `Public API reference`, `mcpMarvin`, `brFinancier`, `mcGreasemonkey`, `Coolify Deploy Kit`)**: Health-gated self-hosted deployment, a shared-resource Minecraft modpack, this site's public API reference, and private work: a bookkeeping app with Schedule C worksheets, a personal finance dashboard, and an AI assistant bridge for a task planner. --- ## 2. Complete 24-Project Engineering Dossiers ### Video Studio - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Browser Video Studio & Hosted Video Tools - **Tagline**: Trim, crop, resize, convert and add subtitles to your own video in the browser, then download the result. - **Maturity**: Live in production - **Why this label**: It runs at its public address, its main page responds, and the running version matches the latest code. - **Honest Status**: Runs live in your browser at ngi.video/console with local WebCodecs and WebAssembly video tools. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/console - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://ngi.video/console - **Tags**: Runs in Your Browser, Clip & Frame Export, Subtitle Search - **Summary**: Browser video studio where you open your own clip, preview filters, save still frames and short clips, and search a subtitle file. A hosted processing service is in development. - **Why It Was Created**: Managing large video libraries usually means waiting minutes for media indexing, fighting fragile transcode pipelines, and jumping between separate apps just to compress, trim, upscale, or find a spoken quote. - **Why It Is Useful**: Compresses, trims, joins and checks your own videos with nothing to install, and the files never leave your device. - **Key Features**: - Live browser studio with a split-screen preview and instant clip export - Compress, trim, join, contact-sheet and loudness tools that run on your device - GPU upscaling, overlap splicing and scene indexing in private early access ### Vox - **Stewarding Entity**: The Vox Foundation (Separate entity from NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (Founder, The Vox Foundation & President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Single-File Full-Stack Programming Language • voxlang.org - **Tagline**: A programming language designed so you describe your data once and get a matching database, server, and client. - **Maturity**: Beta - **Why this label**: It runs at its public address, but we can't confirm yet that the running version matches the latest code. - **Honest Status**: Open-source Rust compiler and language specification at voxlang.org and github.com/vox-foundation/vox, published by the Vox Foundation. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/vox - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://voxlang.org - **Public GitHub**: https://github.com/vox-foundation/vox - **Tags**: Rust Compiler, Declare-Once Stack, Open Source - **Summary**: Programming language and full-stack toolchain where defining your data model once automatically generates the database schema, backend API routes, and typed frontend client. - **Why It Was Created**: Modern web apps force teams to write the same data structure four times—in database migrations, backend models, API validators, and frontend types—creating bugs every time a field changes. - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets humans and AI coding assistants build complete, type-checked web applications in a single `.vox` file with APIs that stay in sync and strict compile-time error handling. - **Key Features**: - Declare-once data models that generate database tables, server endpoints, and TypeScript clients - Fast Rust-built compiler, type checker (`vox check`), and sandboxed script runner (`vox run`) - Built-in editor autocomplete (LSP) and AI assistant integration out of the box - Public open-source language specification and interactive documentation at voxlang.org ### FableForge - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Browser Visual Novel Creator & Playable RPG • fableforge.to - **Tagline**: Make a character and walk around a living village, or start writing a branching story with art made for it. - **Maturity**: Beta - **Why this label**: This label is the owner's call, made by hand, and not the result of our automatic checks. - **Honest Status**: Browser RPG and visual novel studio at fableforge.to with multi-angle character art, town exploration, and no account needed to play. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/fableforge - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://fableforge.to - **Tags**: Instant Web Play, The Village RPG, Story & Art Studio - **Summary**: Web-native story studio and playable RPG platform at fableforge.to where creators draft branching visual novels, generate consistent multi-angle character portraits, scene backdrops, and battlemaps, and publish games that play instantly in any browser. - **Why It Was Created**: Most indie writers have great story ideas but get blocked having to illustrate hundreds of character expressions and scenes or package bulky desktop downloads before anyone can play their game. - **Why It Is Useful**: Combines branching narrative design, reference-locked character and environment artwork generation, and instant browser playback in one place—while powering The Village RPG with live town exploration, social trust dialogue, and turn-based tactical combat. - **Key Features**: - Zero-install browser player for branching visual novels with cloud saves and relationship memory - Playable Village RPG featuring town exploration, social trust dialogue, quests, and turn-based tactical combat - Reference-locked character turnaround sheets, portrait expressions, scene backdrops, and top-down battlemaps - Full project export to standard desktop visual novel formats that creators completely own ### GovSim - **Stewarding Entity**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd · Open-Source & Research - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Open-Source U.S. Presidency & Budget Simulator • gsim.ngi.video - **Tagline**: Play a fictional American president across two terms, coach your strategy against autopilot, and see monthly family budget impacts. - **Maturity**: Live in production - **Why this label**: It runs at its public address, its main page responds, and the running version matches the latest code. - **Honest Status**: Live open-source presidential simulation at gsim.ngi.video with vintage Americana art, strategy coaching, perk drafts, and instant browser play. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/govSim - **Stat**: 32 turns across two terms (source: https://github.com/brbrainerd/govSim/blob/master/src/engine/units.ts#L8) - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://gsim.ngi.video - **Public GitHub**: https://github.com/brbrainerd/govSim - **Tags**: Beat-the-Baseline Coach, Policy Doctrine Combos, Kitchen-Table Cashflow, Vintage Americana & Evil Mode - **Summary**: Nonpartisan U.S. Presidential and macroeconomic simulation at gsim.ngi.video where you govern across 32 quarterly turns inside a layered vintage Americana Oval Office—drafting quarterly task-force perks, stacking Policy Doctrine combos, coaching your moves against a same-seed Autopilot baseline, and seeing how fiscal and tariff choices change monthly family budgets. - **Why It Was Created**: Most political games treat governing as simple partisan sliders with no strategic feedback, leaving players guessing why their economy trailed doing nothing or how tax rates, spending bills, and interest rates affect real households. - **Why It Is Useful**: Shows a live Beat-the-Baseline score preview and Chief of Staff playbooks before you end each quarter, tracks pending bills and crises on a stacked index card, and translates federal policy into monthly household dollar impacts. - **Key Features**: - Beat-the-Baseline Strategy Coach with live score-delta previews and rotating three-path Chief of Staff playbooks - Layered vintage Americana Oval Office with borderless pill-pawn character rigs, manila folder tabs, and optional Dark Americana Evil Mode - Quarterly task-force perk drafts, Policy Doctrine set bonuses, and a stacked turn agenda card tracking clearing bills - Kitchen-Table household dollar calculator, spectrum-balanced Civics Myth busters, and full parameter Model Inspector at gsim.ngi.video ### GigMe - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Interactive Career Coach & Skill Diagnostic • gigme.ngi.video - **Tagline**: Practice job interviews, find out which of your skills hold up, and track which applications get replies. - **Maturity**: Beta - **Why this label**: It runs at its public address, but we can't confirm yet that the running version matches the latest code. - **Honest Status**: Live career coaching and job market beta at gigme.ngi.video; verified in single-user mode with public market rollups and free account sign-in. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/gigme - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://gigme.ngi.video - **Tags**: Live Mock Interviews, Skill Calibration, Outcome Tracking - **Summary**: Interactive career copilot and job-market intelligence beta that tests your real-world strengths, runs realistic practice interviews, surfaces high-fit roles with hybrid search, and tracks which applications earn human replies. - **Why It Was Created**: Job boards flood people with keyword-matched listings without telling them which skills they are actually missing or whether their application strategy is working. - **Why It Is Useful**: Guides you through focused modes for career discovery, mock interviews, skill practice, and application tracking, while aggregating public role and compensation signals. - **Key Features**: - Coaching modes: Auto-Calibrate, Mock Interview, Skill Coach, Career Desires, References, and Role Triage - Verified skill profile that separates tested strengths from self-reported resume claims - Hybrid role and compensation market explorer with explainable match badges - Single-user verified coaching loop with public market rollups at gigme.ngi.video ### Containment - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Modern-Era Tabletop RPG Campaign & Rules Compiler • containment.ngi.video - **Tagline**: A modern-day tactical tabletop campaign that players join in the browser, with character sheets that handle gear math. - **Maturity**: Beta - **Why this label**: It runs at its public address, but we can't confirm yet that the running version matches the latest code. - **Honest Status**: Live tactical tabletop campaign and Markdown rules compiler hosted at containment.ngi.video, playtested at weekly sessions. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/containment - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://containment.ngi.video - **Tags**: Live Campaign Playtest, Rules-as-Code, Browser Character Sheets - **Summary**: Live modern-era tactical tabletop campaign at containment.ngi.video with browser player HUDs, an AI game-master console, and a Markdown-to-rules compiler for its clean-room first-party ruleset. - **Why It Was Created**: Running heavily customized tabletop RPG campaigns online usually means hours of fragile manual data entry, plugin updates that break character sheets right before game night, and lock-in to third-party rules licenses. - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets game designers write classes, doctrines, and gear in plain Markdown files that compile into live browser character sheets and tactical maps, with royalty-free first-party rules tested at every weekly session. - **Key Features**: - Automated rules compiler converting plain-text Markdown into playable tabletop compendiums and clean-room first-party rules - Six browser-native player and GM surfaces covering character creation, live tactical maps, comms theater, and field dossiers - Shared rules data that keeps every character sheet and tactical map in step with the compiled ruleset - Automated visual and lore-hygiene verification suite testing character sheets and scenes before every session ### Ramada - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Night-Out & Activity Planner for Tucson • ramada.ngi.video - **Tagline**: Tell it what you're in the mood for tonight in Tucson, and it ranks places against simply staying home. - **Maturity**: Live in production - **Why this label**: It runs at its public address, its main page responds, and the running version matches the latest code. - **Honest Status**: Live Tucson night-out planner running in the browser at ramada.ngi.video with no account required. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/ramada - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://ramada.ngi.video - **Tags**: Live Weather & Traffic, Stay-Home Baseline, Pick Your Mood - **Summary**: A Tucson night-out planner that checks the clock, live weather, drive time, and the mood you pick, then ranks the best places to go tonight against simply staying home. - **Why It Was Created**: Map apps and event sites dump hundreds of pins on a screen without answering the real question: 'Given the weather, drive time, and my energy right now, what is actually worth leaving the house for?' - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets you pick a mood, a time, and how long you have, shows clear pros and cons for every venue or trail, and honestly tells you to stay in when nothing beats a night at home. - **Key Features**: - Compares local venues, trails, libraries, and events against a realistic staying-home baseline - Mood choices: Anything, Something to do, Meet people, Be around people, Get things done, or Unwind - Real-time weather, daylight window, and drive-time awareness for tonight or the weekend - Transparent preference controls so you can see and adjust why any spot was recommended ### GreaterFool - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: High-Stakes Decision & Risk Analyzer • ftt.ngi.video - **Tagline**: Talk through a risky decision and see the exact odds next to the plain bottom line before you commit. - **Maturity**: Live in production - **Why this label**: It runs at its public address, its main page responds, and the running version matches the latest code. - **Honest Status**: Production-ready decision and risk analysis web app at ftt.ngi.video with multi-model OpenRouter routing; requires a free account. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/greaterFool - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://ftt.ngi.video - **Tags**: Decision Science, Math vs. Bottom Line, Bias Trap Alerts - **Summary**: Production-ready decision workbench based on cognitive psychology's Fuzzy-Trace Theory—placing exact financial odds side-by-side with the real-world bottom line so you can reason clearly under risk. - **Why It Was Created**: Spreadsheets and standard AI chatbots reduce big life or financial choices to a single average number, ignoring whether a bad outcome could wipe you out. - **Why It Is Useful**: Shows both the exact numerical math and the plain-English categorical risk side-by-side, flagging common psychological framing traps and verifying claims before you commit. - **Key Features**: - Side-by-side breakdown of exact financial math vs. real-world bottom-line downside - Automatic alerts for framing traps like loss aversion, sunk-cost thinking, and false certainty - Rolling OpenRouter model fallback chain with hallucination and negation parity checks - Live interactive decision studio with subscription and credit metering at ftt.ngi.video ### SRT Workbench - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Hybrid Subtitle Search, Keyframe Hover-Reel & Cue Editor • srt.ngi.video - **Tagline**: Search across subtitle files and video libraries with lexical, semantic, regex, and visual frame matching, then edit cues. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: Early browser and local hybrid subtitle search workbench prototype in active testing at srt.ngi.video. - **Honest Status**: Browser and local hybrid subtitle search workbench prototype at srt.ngi.video with Big Buck Bunny preload and persistent user storage. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/srtWorkbench - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://srt.ngi.video - **Tags**: Hybrid RRF Search, Keyframe Hover-Reel, IndexedDB + R2 Storage - **Summary**: Interactive split-dock subtitle search, keyframe contact-sheet preview, and inline cue correction workbench at srt.ngi.video and ngi.video/srt. - **Why It Was Created**: Finding a remembered spoken quote or visual moment across dozens of recordings and subtitle files is slow when tools reset user settings or lose loaded videos on refresh. - **Why It Is Useful**: Preloads Big Buck Bunny for immediate testing while persisting your own added videos, custom .srt files, and transcription settings in IndexedDB and Cloudflare R2. - **Key Features**: - Hybrid lexical, semantic concept, regex capture-group, and visual keyframe tag search fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion - Interactive video monitor with synchronized lower-third captions, cue timeline scrubber, and click-to-seek passages - Non-resetting user persistence across IndexedDB and Cloudflare R2 with per-user storage quotas - Inline cue and glossary replacement editor, timestamp shifting, and Before/After computer vision quality flywheel ### DirectFail Tax - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Bookkeeping and Schedule C math with rules you can read - **Tagline**: Sort your freelance business expenses with rules you can read, then fill in your Schedule C numbers. - **Maturity**: Private - **Why this label**: It's private work: the app and its code are closed to the public, so there's no link, and these screens use made-up data. - **Honest Status**: Runs on a self-hosted server that only its owner can reach. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/directfail-ts - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Tags**: TypeScript, Express, Zod, pdf-lib - **Summary**: A self-employment bookkeeping app that imports bank exports, sorts recurring expenses with rules you can read, works out Schedule C and quarterly estimates in whole cents, and builds a printable PDF packet. - **Why It Was Created**: Commercial tax prep sites hide straightforward self-employment tax math behind dozens of upsell screens and black-box questionnaires. - **Why It Is Useful**: Recurring expenses are sorted by rules you can open and read, and any uncertain call waits for your review. - **Key Features**: - Readable sorting rules for software, hosting and domain expenses - Schedule C and quarterly estimates worked out in whole cents - Imports bank exports and keeps each user's ledger in its own workspace - Builds a printable PDF packet from the finished numbers ### Public API reference - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Public Endpoint Reference & Read-Only Sandbox • ngi.video/api - **Tagline**: Read this site's public endpoints, try the read-only ones from your browser, and get the OpenAPI spec. - **Maturity**: Live in production - **Why this label**: It runs at its public address, its main page responds, and the running version matches the latest code. - **Honest Status**: Live public endpoint documentation and read-only request tester at ngi.video/api. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/ngi-api-docs - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://ngi.video/api - **Tags**: Read-Only Sandbox, OpenAPI 3.1, Public Endpoints - **Summary**: Reference for this site's public endpoints, with a read-only sandbox that sends GET requests and shows the raw reply. - **Why It Was Created**: Anyone scripting against ngi.video needs one plain page that says what each public endpoint accepts and returns. - **Why It Is Useful**: Shows each public endpoint with an example request, sends the read-only ones from your browser, and links the machine-readable OpenAPI spec. - **Key Features**: - Example requests for health, the capability list, link data and early-access intake - Interactive browser request runner for testing read-only GET routes and inspecting live JSON headers and bodies - Video tool list showing what runs in your browser and what is in private early access - Machine-readable OpenAPI 3.1 spec (/openapi.json) and AI context docs (/llms.txt) ### mcpMarvin - **Stewarding Entity**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd · Open-Source & Research - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: AI assistant bridge for the Amazing Marvin planner - **Tagline**: Let your AI assistant read today's schedule and add or check off tasks in your Amazing Marvin planner. - **Maturity**: Private - **Why this label**: It's private work: the service and its code are closed to the public, so there's no link, and the example uses made-up tasks. - **Honest Status**: Runs as a private service that needs a credential, and the example uses made-up tasks. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/mcpMarvin - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Tags**: Python, FastMCP, httpx, Starlette - **Summary**: An MCP server that lets an AI assistant read the day's schedule, add tasks and check them off in the Amazing Marvin planner. - **Why It Was Created**: Planning apps keep tasks behind their own screens, so an AI assistant can't help plan the day without copy and paste. - **Why It Is Useful**: Ask the assistant what's due today or to add a task, and the change lands straight in the planner. - **Key Features**: - Reads today's schedule and open tasks - Adds, edits and checks off tasks - Typed tool definitions an assistant can discover on its own - Tests replay recorded planner responses instead of calling the live service ### Resonance - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: First-Person Sci-Fi Immersive Sim - **Tagline**: Sneak, hack, fight, or talk your way through every mission in a first-person sci-fi harbor city. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: There's no public site to check yet, and it has had work in the last three months. - **Honest Status**: Desktop first-person sci-fi immersive simulation built in Godot; runs locally as a desktop game build. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/Resonance - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: Godot + Jolt 3D, Multiple Playstyles, Cybernetic Implants - **Summary**: First-person 2057 sci-fi immersive simulation built in Godot where every mission inside Meridian Harbor can be tackled through stealth, terminal hacking, combat, or conversation. - **Why It Was Created**: Classic Deus Ex-style immersive sims—where every locked door has multiple creative solutions and cybernetic upgrades change how you explore—are rare in modern open-source game engines. - **Why It Is Useful**: Showcases a full-scale 3D game architecture in Godot combining limb-specific health, neural augmentations, spatial inventory, and automated visual scene testing. - **Key Features**: - Cybernetic augmentation system covering vision, movement, stealth, and defensive upgrades - Tactical HUD tracking limb-by-limb health, energy reserves, and stealth visibility - Multi-path level design where stealth vents, hacking, and combat are all first-class options - Automated camera test harness that renders and verifies lighting and combat scenes ### Open Melvor - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Clean-Room TypeScript Idle RPG Engine - **Tagline**: Train crafting, gathering, and combat skills in an idle RPG that keeps progressing while you are away. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: There's no public site to check yet, and it has had work in the last three months. - **Honest Status**: TypeScript idle RPG engine with crafting, combat, and offline progression; runs locally in the browser. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/open-melvor - **Stat**: 28 skills to train (source: Open Melvor game source: the skill list has 28 entries (checked 2026-10-16)) - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: 28 RPG Skills, Mod Sandbox, Offline Progress - **Summary**: Clean-room TypeScript idle RPG engine featuring 28 interconnected crafting and combat skills, instant offline progress catch-up, equipment loadouts, and a safe modding sandbox. - **Why It Was Created**: Idle RPG fans and mod creators needed a fast, open web engine with zero proprietary assets that could run custom progression packs and community mods reliably. - **Why It Is Useful**: Calculates offline character progress when you return, supports a multi-tab inventory bank and full combat arena, and keeps community mods from breaking the core game. - **Key Features**: - 28 crafting, gathering, and combat skill systems with mastery progression - Full combat simulator, equipment loadout manager, and multi-tab searchable item bank - Sandboxed mod loader that keeps community scripts from breaking the core game UI - Compact cloud-ready save format with instant offline progress calculation ### Velocicode - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Automated Python-to-Native Speedup Compiler - **Tagline**: Point it at slow Python code and it builds faster native versions, keeping only the ones whose output matches exactly. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: There's no public site to check yet, and it has had work in the last three months. - **Honest Status**: Early Python-to-native optimization prototype; its hotspot and parity checks are integrated into the Video Studio engine. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/velocicode - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: Python → Native C/Rust, Auto-Verified Parity, Benchmark Gate - **Summary**: Automated Python optimization engine that pinpoints the slowest functions in a codebase, compiles them into native machine extensions, and only keeps builds whose output matches the original exactly. - **Why It Was Created**: Rewriting slow Python loops in C or Rust by hand takes days of debugging, and unverified auto-generated native code can silently change program results or even run slower. - **Why It Is Useful**: Profiles real program bottlenecks automatically, tests candidate native builds in an isolated sandbox, and guarantees every shipped `.so` extension produces identical outputs at measurably higher speed. - **Key Features**: - Automated bottleneck profiler that focuses compilation effort where it actually saves wall-clock time - Multi-compiler build harness that compares native C and Rust extension candidates automatically - Strict output-parity verification gate that rolls back any build that differs from Python behavior - Zero-downtime hot-reload and AI coding assistant integration for continuous optimization ### Cataclysm: Bright Nights - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: C++ Survival Roguelike Systems Fork - **Tagline**: Wire up base power, batch your crafting, and sort storage faster in a custom build of Cataclysm: Bright Nights. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: There's no public site to check yet, and it hasn't had work in the last three months. - **Honest Status**: Custom C++ gameplay and power-grid branch of Cataclysm: Bright Nights that compiles and runs on desktop. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/Cataclysm-BN - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: C++ Game Engine, Base Power Grids, Data Validation - **Summary**: Custom C++ engineering branch of the open-source survival game Cataclysm: Bright Nights focused on base power grids, batch crafting quality-of-life, and faster turn simulation. - **Why It Was Created**: Late-game survival bases often turn into tedious inventory chores and awkward wiring between solar panels, vehicles, and base appliances. - **Why It Is Useful**: Makes wiring base power networks and running bulk crafting jobs smooth and intuitive while staying compatible with standard Bright Nights saves. - **Key Features**: - Unified electrical grid simulation connecting vehicles, batteries, and base appliances - Clear batch crafting and automatic storage-zone sorting - Faster turn simulation in crowded city areas - Backed by automated C++ and data validation tests ### brFinancier - **Stewarding Entity**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd · Open-Source & Research - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Self-hosted ledger, net worth and subscriptions dashboard - **Tagline**: Sync every account into one ledger, catch duplicate imports, and track net worth and recurring subscriptions. - **Maturity**: Private - **Why this label**: It's private work: the app and its code are closed to the public, so there's no link, and these screens use made-up data. - **Honest Status**: Runs on a self-hosted server that's closed to the public, and the screens here show sample accounts. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/brFinancier - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: TypeScript, React, Fastify, PostgreSQL - **Summary**: A self-hosted personal finance dashboard that mirrors accounts from a self-hosted budgeting server into one ledger, checks imports for duplicates, and tracks net worth and recurring subscriptions. - **Why It Was Created**: Commercial budgeting apps keep your financial history on their own servers instead of one you run. - **Why It Is Useful**: The full history sits in a database you run, and a charge imported twice is caught before it is saved. - **Key Features**: - Syncs every linked account into one ledger - Account rules that suggest where spare cash should go - Net worth and recurring subscription views - Amounts stored in whole cents across every account ### mcGreasemonkey - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Minecraft 1.20.1 Automation Modpack - **Tagline**: Build factories in a Minecraft modpack where overlapping mods share one set of ores and recipes, tuned for multiplayer servers. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: There's no public site to check yet, and it hasn't had work in the last three months. - **Honest Status**: Custom multiplayer Minecraft factory automation modpack configuration and server tuning scripts. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/mcGreasemonkey - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: Minecraft 1.20.1, Unified Progression, Server-Tuned - **Summary**: Curated Minecraft 1.20.1 factory and automation modpack with unified crafting recipes, tuned multiplayer server performance, and one-click pack updates. - **Why It Was Created**: Large community Minecraft modpacks often have five incompatible versions of the same copper ore, broken crafting recipes, and severe server lag once players build large factories. - **Why It Is Useful**: Merges overlapping mod items into one clean tech tree and verifies every crafting recipe and server performance setting with automated checks. - **Key Features**: - Unified ores, fluids, and machine progression across dozens of mods - Pre-tuned multiplayer server settings for smooth tick rates around large factories - Automated client and server modpack updater - Automated validation checks that catch broken crafting chains ### Mudlet DBE Suite - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Real-Time Visual Combat HUD for Text RPGs - **Tagline**: Turn fast-scrolling combat text in a text-based RPG into live health bars, cooldown timers, and an automatic room map. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: There's no public site to check yet, and it has had work in the last three months. - **Honest Status**: Playtested Lua combat HUD and auto-mapper package that runs inside the desktop Mudlet client. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/mudlet-dragonball-evolution - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: Visual Combat HUD, Auto-Mapper, Playtested UI - **Summary**: Graphical heads-up display and automation suite for fast-paced text RPGs in Mudlet—turning scrolling walls of combat text into live health bars, cooldown timers, and an interactive map. - **Why It Was Created**: Real-time text RPGs scroll dozens of lines per second during combat, making it nearly impossible to track health, energy, and exits by reading raw text alone. - **Why It Is Useful**: Translates high-speed game text into a clean visual dashboard with live gauges, status alerts, and automatic room mapping. - **Key Features**: - Live graphical gauges for health, energy, stamina, and opponent status - Reliable state-driven combat helpers and cooldown trackers - Interactive room map with automatic pathfinding between areas - Playtested UI and automation refinements ### Overlook (ytfloat) - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Click-Through Floating Video Player for macOS • Swift - **Tagline**: Keep a see-through video floating over your work on a Mac while your clicks pass straight to the app below. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: There's no public site to check yet, and it has had work in the last three months. - **Honest Status**: Native Swift macOS menu-bar app that keeps a click-through floating video window over your workspace. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/ytfloat - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Native macOS App, Click-Through Window, Opacity Slider - **Summary**: Lightweight native macOS menu-bar video player that keeps a semi-transparent, click-through video floating over your code editor or full-screen workspace. - **Why It Was Created**: Standard browser Picture-in-Picture windows cover up parts of your screen, block mouse clicks on the app underneath, and cannot be made translucent. - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets you watch a coding tutorial, lecture, or stream while working—your mouse clicks pass straight through the floating video to the editor or game behind it. - **Key Features**: - One-hotkey click-through mode so the floating video never blocks your mouse - Smooth adjustable transparency slider that stays visible across full-screen spaces - Tiny native Swift app living quietly in the macOS menu bar - Supports both Mac App Store and standalone desktop builds ### Krita AI Box Select - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: One-Drag Smart Cutout Plugin for Krita • Python - **Tagline**: Drag a box around anything in a Krita painting and get a clean cutout selection on its own layer. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: There's no public site to check yet, and it has had work in the last three months. - **Honest Status**: Early local Python plugin prototype for one-drag object selection inside the Krita painting app. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/krita-ai-box-select - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Krita Plugin, Instant Cutouts, Runs Locally - **Summary**: Plugin for the Krita painting app that turns a simple rectangular box drag around any character or object into a clean, pixel-accurate selection mask. - **Why It Was Created**: Tracing around characters or props by hand with the lasso tool in Krita is slow and breaks creative flow during illustration and concept art. - **Why It Is Useful**: Drag a quick box around any subject on your canvas and immediately get a clean transparency mask on a non-destructive layer—running on your own computer. - **Key Features**: - Dockable tool panel built right into Krita's workspace - One-drag box selection that snaps cleanly to complex object edges - Runs locally on your machine with zero cloud subscriptions ### StereoDesk - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: 3D Spatial Workspace for XR Glasses & 3D Monitors - **Tagline**: Arrange browser panels and media at comfortable depths in three dimensions when you wear XR display glasses. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: There's no public site to check yet, and it has had work in the last three months. - **Honest Status**: Early browser prototype for arranging side-by-side stereo workspace panels on XR display glasses. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/stereodesk - **Category**: Neuroscience & Spatial | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: XR Glasses, Side-by-Side 3D, Eye-Comfort Controls - **Summary**: Browser-based 3D workspace renderer for XR display glasses (XREAL, Viture, Rokid) and 3D monitors, giving you adjustable depth and eye-comfort controls. - **Why It Was Created**: Modern XR glasses can display sharp side-by-side 3D video, but regular desktop windows have no depth adjustment and can cause eye strain. - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets you arrange workspace panels and media in comfortable 3D depth layers right from your browser with adjustable eye-spacing controls. - **Key Features**: - Real-time Side-by-Side and Top-Bottom 3D display modes - Fine-grained depth and convergence sliders for long-session eye comfort - Runs directly in the browser on any machine connected to XR glasses ### Coolify Deploy Kit - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Zero-Downtime Container Rollout & Health Verifier • Node.js - **Tagline**: Deploy your self-hosted site and only call it done once the live address answers cleanly three times in a row. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: There's no public site to check yet, and it has had work in the last three months. - **Honest Status**: Zero-dependency Node.js deployment and health-check tool used in production rollouts. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/coolify-deploy-kit - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Zero Dependencies, Pinned Releases, Live Health Gate - **Summary**: Lightweight deployment script that triggers self-hosted Coolify container rollouts, streams live build logs, and verifies the live site passes consecutive health checks before finishing. - **Why It Was Created**: Many deployment scripts report 'success' the moment a build starts—long before the new container is actually serving traffic. - **Why It Is Useful**: Drops into any project with zero external packages, pins the exact git commit, and waits until the live production URL responds cleanly three times in a row. - **Key Features**: - Pins exact git commit SHAs so every production release is traceable - Streams real-time container build logs and surfaces errors immediately - Requires consecutive live HTTP 200 health checks before marking a deploy complete ### brPrompts - **Stewarding Entity**: NextGen Interactive LLC - **Founder & Lead Architect**: Bertrand Reyna-Brainerd (President, NextGen Interactive LLC) - **Subtitle**: Version-Controlled AI Review & Engineering Playbooks - **Tagline**: Reuse written checklists for planning features and reviewing code, so AI-assisted work meets the same bar every time. - **Maturity**: Prototype - **Why this label**: There's no public site to check yet, and it has had work in the last three months. - **Honest Status**: Version-controlled engineering playbooks, review rubrics, and specification templates used across projects. - **Showcase Page**: https://ngi.video/work/brPrompts - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Code Review Rubrics, Spec Templates, Git-Versioned - **Summary**: Curated collection of engineering playbooks, security review checklists, and specification templates for keeping AI-assisted software development rigorous. - **Why It Was Created**: One-off chat prompts quickly get lost and fail to enforce consistent quality, security, and testing standards across projects. - **Why It Is Useful**: Gives engineering teams repeatable checklists for planning features, stress-testing assumptions, and reviewing code before it ships. - **Key Features**: - Multi-step code quality, accessibility, and security review checklists - Clear specification and task-breakdown templates - Version-controlled in Git so improvements are shared across all projects --- ## 3. Video Studio Tools Tools marked “In your browser” run at https://ngi.video/console on your own files, and nothing is uploaded; the open-source software they use is listed at https://ngi.video/licenses. Tools marked “Private early access” are GPU work that is not open yet; ask at https://ngi.video/#contact. ### `compress` — Smart Video Compress - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: compression - **Summary**: Re-encode a video to H.264 (MP4), VP9 or AV1 (WebM) in your browser with WebCodecs, falling back to FFmpeg (WebAssembly) when WebCodecs can't. Shows the measured size before and after. - **Why Useful**: No upload: the file never leaves your device, and the before and after sizes are measured, not estimated. ### `upres` — 2× / 4× Video Upscaler - **Availability**: Private early access - **Category**: enhancement - **Summary**: Upscales lower-resolution footage 2× or 4× with edge-preserving detail recovery and lossless audio passthrough. - **Why Useful**: Older archives, game captures, and compressed web clips often look soft on modern 4K displays. The upscaler reconstructs crisp edges frame-by-frame and preserves the original audio track without re-compression. ### `seamless_cut` — Seamless Overlap Splicer - **Availability**: Private early access - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Finds the exact matching frame and audio waveform between two overlapping recordings and joins them without a visible jump cut. - **Why Useful**: When a recording is split across two files with a few seconds of overlap, manually lining up the exact frame and audio sample in an editor is tedious. Seamless Overlap Splicer automatically aligns both visual frames and audio waveforms. ### `neural-cut` — Semantic Clip Search (Neural Cut) - **Availability**: Private early access - **Category**: search - **Summary**: Searches a video collection for scenes by spoken words or visual meaning and extracts the matching moments. - **Why Useful**: Finding a specific 15-second moment inside hours of unedited footage usually means scrubbing timelines by hand. Neural Cut indexes transcripts and visual keyframes so teams can jump straight to matching clips. ### `concatenate` — Lossless Segment Merger - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Join clips that share the same codec settings and resolution into one file by copying packets, without re-encoding. Clips that don't match are refused, not silently converted. - **Why Useful**: No upload: join camera or screen-capture parts on your own device without re-encoding them. ### `segment` — Keyframe Video Chunker - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Cut one range or split a video into equal parts in your browser. Keyframe mode copies packets without re-encoding; frame-accurate mode re-encodes. - **Why Useful**: No upload: cut or split a recording on your own device; keyframe mode finishes in moments because nothing is re-encoded. ### `srt_search` — SRT Workbench & Hybrid Subtitle Search - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: search - **Summary**: Search across subtitle tracks and video collections using full-text, semantic, regex, and visual keyframe matching, edit or retime cues inline, and jump the video monitor to any timestamp. - **Why Useful**: Editors and researchers often remember a spoken phrase, regex pattern, or visual scene across dozens of recordings. SRT Workbench indexes .srt tracks and keyframe contact sheets in your browser and persists your library locally or in Cloudflare R2. ### `visual_index` — Scene Keyframe & Caption Indexer - **Availability**: Private early access - **Category**: search - **Summary**: Extracts representative keyframes whenever the camera scene changes and generates searchable visual descriptions. - **Why Useful**: B-roll libraries and silent footage have no dialogue to search. Scene Keyframe Indexer detects camera cuts, saves clean thumbnail frames, and tags them so footage is searchable visually. ### `live-portrait` — Expressive Portrait Animator - **Availability**: Private early access - **Category**: enhancement - **Summary**: Transfers natural head movement and facial expressions from a driving video clip onto a still character portrait. - **Why Useful**: Lets storytellers, game developers, and presenters animate character portraits using a reference performance clip with smooth edge compositing. ### `thumbnailer` — Contact Sheet Thumbnailer - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Capture evenly spaced, frame-accurate frames from a video and lay them out as one PNG or JPEG contact sheet, in your browser. - **Why Useful**: No upload: get a one-image overview of a video on your own device. ### `loudnorm` — Loudness Normalizer (EBU R128) - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: enhancement - **Summary**: Two-pass EBU R128 loudness normalization with FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly, run in your browser. Video is copied; audio is re-encoded to AAC at the original sample rate. - **Why Useful**: No upload: bring a voice or music track to a standard loudness on your own device. ### `convert` — Format Converter (MP4 / WebM / MOV) - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: compression - **Summary**: Convert a video container and codec between MP4 (H.264 + AAC), WebM (VP9 + Opus), and MOV (QuickTime) in your browser using FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly. - **Why Useful**: No upload: convert formats locally on your device for instant playback or editing compatibility. ### `resize` — Resolution Resizer (2x / 4x / 1080p / 720p / 480p) - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Scale video dimensions in your browser using Lanczos resampling (standard non-AI 2x/4x scale or 1080p/720p/480p height presets). Keeps the original aspect ratio with even pixel dimensions. - **Why Useful**: Honest Lanczos pixel scaling in the browser when you need a specific resolution without waiting for a cloud GPU. ### `crop` — Aspect Ratio Cropper (16:9 / 9:16 / 1:1 / 4:5) - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Center-crop a video to widescreen (16:9), vertical (9:16), square (1:1), or portrait (4:5) in your browser. - **Why Useful**: Reframe a clip for vertical, square, or widescreen layouts locally without uploading. ### `rotate` — Rotate & Flip Video - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Rotate a video 90 degrees clockwise, 90 degrees counter-clockwise, or 180 degrees, or flip it horizontally or vertically in your browser. - **Why Useful**: Fix sideways phone recordings or mirror a clip on your device. ### `extract-audio` — Extract Audio (MP3 / WAV / AAC / Opus) - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Strip the video track and export the audio stream as MP3, WAV (PCM 16-bit), AAC (.m4a), or Opus (.ogg) in your browser. - **Why Useful**: Save a clean audio file from any recording without uploading the video. ### `mute` — Mute Video (Strip Audio Track) - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Remove the audio track from a video without re-encoding the video stream in your browser. - **Why Useful**: Instant lossless video copy with silent output. ### `replace-audio` — Replace Audio Track - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Mux a new audio file (MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG) onto a video in your browser while copying the original video stream. - **Why Useful**: Swap in a clean voiceover or music bed locally without re-encoding video frames. ### `normalize-audio` — Quick Loudness Normalize (Single-Pass) - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: enhancement - **Summary**: Normalize audio loudness to -14, -16, or -23 LUFS in a single pass while copying the video stream. - **Why Useful**: Fast single-pass loudness leveling when you don't need a full two-pass loudness report. ### `gif` — Animated GIF Exporter (Palette Optimized) - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Convert a time range of a video into an animated GIF in your browser using two-stage Lanczos scaling and custom palette generation. - **Why Useful**: Create crisp, compact animated GIFs for docs, PRs, and portfolios directly on your device. ### `speed` — Playback Speed (0.25x to 4x) - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Speed up or slow down video and audio together (0.25x, 0.5x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 2x, 4x) in your browser using PTS scaling and pitch-preserving atempo chains. - **Why Useful**: Create time-lapses or slow-motion clips locally with synchronized audio pitch. ### `reverse` — Reverse Clip - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Play a video clip (and optionally its audio track) backwards in your browser using FFmpeg frame reversal. - **Why Useful**: Reverse short clips locally for loops and visual effects. ### `subtitles` — Burn Subtitles & Retime SRT - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Burn an .srt subtitle file into video frames in your browser using libass and a self-hosted Inter font, or shift .srt timestamps forward/backward with instant download. - **Why Useful**: Hard-code captions for social clips or fix out-of-sync .srt files without uploading.