Declined Studios is a one-person game and app studio. Everything here is original IP I wanted badly enough to build: a free 3D homelab simulator, a handful of tools people use every day, and devlogs that explain how each one came together, including the parts that went wrong.
The World Update takes Silicon Pirates beyond the homelab into a much larger, connected world, and out of Beta. Watch the trailer and see the road to v1.0. Beta 3 is free to play now.
Games
Everything the studio is building and playing right now: one live and free in your browser, one on its way to a first demo. Each game gets its own devlogs as it grows.
A free 3D homelab simulator in your browser.
Rack servers, wire power and network, open every machine at the workbench and keep the lab online while heat, faults and the ISP bill push back. Power, networking and storage behave like the real thing because they are modelled, not scripted.
A giant alien walker, a neon-noir town, and everything in it breakable.
The 3D remake of the studio's 2D original, built in Unity: a laser, plasma, a stomp and a levitation arm against buildings, bridges, traffic, the police and the army, with the fire, the music and the effects all generated. The trailer goes from where it began to where it is now. A playable demo is coming soon.
Evergreen
Homelab guides from the devlog that still get read every week: a guide to using Exo for LLM clusters, whether Jellyfin plays FLAC, a three-node Lenovo ThinkCentre Proxmox cluster, and how to turn an MP3 into a ringtone.
Exo splits a large language model across several machines. Here's how to set it up on a Proxmox cluster, and the hardware reality …
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Jellyfin plays FLAC natively on most clients. The trouble starts when something forces a transcode — here's when that happens, and…
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Building a 3-node Proxmox VE cluster out of Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q Tiny PCs — what they cost, what they can take, and what went …
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Trim any song into a ringtone in your browser, then actually get it onto your phone — the current Android steps, and the iPhone me…
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How a Ryzen gaming PC became the homelab's Proxmox compute node: GPU passthrough, eight container migrations, and the games back v…
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In my latest upgrade to my home lab, I set out to build a reliable and redundant network storage solution for my media server. My …
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14 live properties, all our own: the games, the free tools people use daily, the small SaaS apps, and a real sign business. Built here, hosted here.
YouTube & SoundCloud to MP3. Free, no adware, no pop-ups.
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Turn any song into a custom ringtone — MP3 or iPhone M4R.
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Send files phone to phone — over Wi-Fi, QR video or sound. No app, no cloud, no account.
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Pixelate photos and hide faces — 100% in your browser.
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Free online mind mapping. Create, connect, save your ideas.
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Build. Break. Defend. A free 3D homelab simulator where power, networking and storage behave like real infrastructure. Beta 3 is live.
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Play Beta 3 free in your browser: rack servers, wire power and network, keep your lab online.
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Custom signs made to get noticed — Belleville, Kingston, Napanee.
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Local buy & sell classifieds for Kingston, Belleville, Trenton & the Quinte region.
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Vehicle wrap design & sign shop software. Design, mockup, produce.
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Automated site health & SEO monitoring — SSL, security headers, broken links.
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Itemized quoting software for epoxy & concrete coating contractors.
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Automatic warranty registration follow-up & maintenance reminders.
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Independent guides to AI companion apps: what they cost, how private they are, how memory works. 18+.
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Build logs, teardowns and post-mortems: the games as they grow, Proxmox clusters, GPU/AI nodes and the tools that came out of them.
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The Silicon Pirates World Update is next: beyond the homelab into a much larger, connected world, and out of Beta into v0.5 Early …
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Divine Carnage, the studio's second game: a 52-second trailer of the 3D alien-walker rampage, from the 2D original to today's buil…
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Silicon Pirates Beta 3 is live: a free 3D homelab and server rack simulator in your browser. Rack servers, wire power and network,…
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Three Silicon Pirates Beta 3 gameplay videos: a 50-second promo, a 56-second cut and a 3:43 walkthrough of the browser homelab rac…
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Live chat or email on one memory, no filters on the conversation, photos that are always her, and a privacy model most AI girlfrie…
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55% of new sessions never placed a device. August fixed the first ten minutes, then gave you a reason to come back: work orders, g…
Read the log →New devlogs land as the games grow. Played something here and have thoughts? The contact form goes straight to the person who built it.
