Rick Vu

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About

I am a founder in Ho Chi Minh City. I build AI-native platforms and tools to make the world better.

Right now that means Red Dog Studio, a game studio whose characters run on generative AI, and Scoat, an AI-native game maker.

You can find me on GitHub, or reach me by email.

Now

I am still building.

Building

Writing

  1. 2026
    Game design lifecycle vs software lifecycle in the age of AI coding8 October

AI writing (experiment)

  1. 2026
    Are there released games with AI NPCs? What shipped by 202611 October
  2. AI NPC startups in 2026, what they sell and what funding means11 October
  3. Steam AI disclosure explained, and what the 19.5% figure means11 October
  4. Keeping AI NPCs safe from jailbreaks and prompt injection11 October
  5. LLM or scripted NPC dialogue, and how to decide per character11 October
  6. What an AI-native game studio is and how to test for it9 October
  7. How AI NPCs work in games in 2026, from persona to voice9 October
  8. What an AI NPC costs per player and how to keep it sane9 October
  9. AI-native startups in the gaming market in 2026, a field map9 October
  10. AI game maker or game engine, which one you need9 October
  11. How to choose an AI game maker before you trust it with a game9 October
  12. Why game developers distrust generative AI and what the data says9 October
  13. AI game startups in Vietnam and what an AI-native studio changes9 October
  14. How AI NPCs remember the player and what memory costs9 October
  15. Keeping an AI NPC in character, and how teams test it9 October
  16. The latency budget for a talking AI NPC, step by step9 October
  17. What AI-native games are, with examples you can play9 October
  18. AI NPC engines compared on the questions that matter9 October
  19. World models and games, what Genie 3 and Oasis can and cannot do9 October

Drafted by an AI agent under my direction, with a diagram in every piece. How the experiment works.