Deniz Yanik.

AI builder · London

I build and ship games, films, channels and AI apps.

I build things end to end and put them in front of real users: a Steam game, a live multiplayer RPG, an animation studio, two YouTube channels and a handful of AI apps. Everything below I designed and built myself, mostly working alongside AI.

A Growing Problem key art

Game · Godot 4.7 · solo

A Growing Problem

You start microscopic in the soil of a houseplant pot. You eat, you grow, and the world changes scale around you until you are big enough to eat a car in the garden. One continuous 3D world with no loading screens between scales.

Built with
Godot 4.7, GDScript, Jolt physics, Blender
Role
Design, code, art direction, Steam page
Status
Coming soon on Steam, planned for Q2 2027 (Windows)

Screenshots · scroll →

The pot rim, looking out over the bedroom A sleeping cat, seen from tiny scale Riding a jellyfish up through an aquarium Grown bigger than the houses Climbing through a kelp forest Big enough to see the planet curve
Elderwake: the Hollowroot Grovewarden boss intro

Live game · June – Aug 2026 · solo

Elderwake

A 3D multiplayer RPG for the web and phones, with combat, quests, gathering, crafting, dungeons and a player-run economy. Designed, built and launched in 3 months, reaching about 400 players. I built it with AI coding agents from the first commit to every release.

Built with
Three.js, Node.js, WebSockets, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker
Shipped to
Web and the Solana dApp Store for Seeker
Community
266 followers on X
Status
Servers closed; the X account is still up

In game · scroll →

Elderwake: a quest at camp in Greenwake Woods Elderwake: the herbalism table and an NPC in the ruins Elderwake: fighting creatures in Embercap Marsh Elderwake: a gate in Embercap Marsh Elderwake: the social panel with friends, messages and rankings Elderwake: the live event board

Animation studio · 2026

Wonky Frame

An animation studio making adverts, explainers and brand films for businesses at fixed prices. I built the studio, the website and the production pipeline, which turns a brief into a finished film in many styles, from paper collage to clay.

Sample films

Emberfall sample film
Emberfall
Bramley's sample film
Bramley's
Tuft sample film
Tuft
Clockwell sample film
Clockwell
Lanternhouse sample film
Lanternhouse
Larkhill sample film
Larkhill
Northwind sample film
Northwind
Second Helping sample film
Second Helping

YouTube · 2026

Two channels, written, animated and edited end to end

I run both channels myself, from research and script to thumbnails and the final edit, with a pipeline of AI tools and three.js scenes I built for them.

Then What?

Big what-if questions about space, time and life, told with a stick-figure hero.

7.7K subscribers · top video 542K views

Not Hypothetical

Narrated documentaries about real AI stories.

4.6K subscribers · top video 686K views

Apps · Jan – May 2025 · now retired

Focus Pets

A gamified iOS focus app. Block distracting apps, run focus sessions, hatch pixel pets and decorate their gardens. Its TikTok launch reached about 300,000 organic views.

React NativeFirebaseScreen Time APISubscriptions
Focus Pets: block apps to limit distractions Focus Pets: a focus session timer Focus Pets: decorate your garden Focus Pets: hatch a new pet Focus Pets: a forest garden full of pets

DishLab

An AI recipe app that combines OpenAI's vision and text models with a recipe database, with subscriptions.

OpenAI visionFirebase FunctionsRevenueCat

AI Companion

A chat companion app built on OpenAI, with content moderation, server-side checks and in-app purchases.

OpenAICloud FunctionsModeration

Open to AI solutions, prototyping and forward-deployed roles

Let's build the next one.

GitHub