declinedStudios
Live from the lab · 42 devlogs published

Not all heroes wear capes.Some just ship good code.

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.

14Live sites
42Devlogs
22,262Words written
16Videos

Games

Games from Declined Studios

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.

Beta 3 · live · free · World Update next

Silicon Pirates

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.

In development · demo coming soon

Divine Carnage

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.

Players on Silicon Pirates

Notes other players left in the guestbook of the developer's own lab, in their own words.

Yo this game is craazy, it has evolved a lot and i really love it, keep it up, also love your room.

denwengedGuestbook note
  • Love this game

    Nice racks

    Also nice grow room in the basement

    ChickenAirForce · 3 notes
  • Sick place!

    Cry5talz
  • epic sauce

    ashton
  • good work

    woz

Evergreen

The write-ups people keep finding

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.

The Network

Everything we run, in one place

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.

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UtubeMP3 Tool

YouTube & SoundCloud to MP3. Free, no adware, no pop-ups.

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Ringtone Revolution Tool

Turn any song into a custom ringtone — MP3 or iPhone M4R.

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Beam Tool

Send files phone to phone — over Wi-Fi, QR video or sound. No app, no cloud, no account.

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PixelateMe Tool

Pixelate photos and hide faces — 100% in your browser.

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Vision Mapr App

Free online mind mapping. Create, connect, save your ideas.

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Silicon Pirates Game

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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Silicon Pirates Beta 3 gameplay: a 42U server rack with a UPS, router, switch, firewall and NAS
Play Silicon Pirates Game

Play Beta 3 free in your browser: rack servers, wire power and network, keep your lab online.

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Signs613 Business

Custom signs made to get noticed — Belleville, Kingston, Napanee.

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Kivajo Marketplace

Local buy & sell classifieds for Kingston, Belleville, Trenton & the Quinte region.

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Sign Forge Studio Software

Vehicle wrap design & sign shop software. Design, mockup, produce.

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SiteSentry SaaS

Automated site health & SEO monitoring — SSL, security headers, broken links.

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CoatQuote SaaS

Itemized quoting software for epoxy & concrete coating contractors.

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WarrantyLoop SaaS

Automatic warranty registration follow-up & maintenance reminders.

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Your Girlfriend Experience Guides

Independent guides to AI companion apps: what they cost, how private they are, how memory works. 18+.

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Devlogs

Notes from the workbench

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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Follow the build

New devlogs land as the games grow. Played something here and have thoughts? The contact form goes straight to the person who built it.

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