# Maxim Zaks

- **Event:** [Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon)
- **When:** Oct 26, 12:00 PM – Nov 4, 9:00 PM (EST)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Maxim Zaks](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/mzaks)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/mzaks/Pixalorien
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/ihOtzIlt4jY
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/1000

Pixalorien is my attempt to push the frontier of what one person can build. I set out to create a genuinely new kind of game — a real-time-with-pause strategy game played inside a living, cell-by-cell falling-sand world of sand, water, gas and lava — and to build it in ent-lang, a programming language I designed and implemented myself. Almost everything was created in collaboration with AI agents: the code was written with Claude Code (Opus 5.5) and Muse Code (Muse Wonder 1.0), and the art direction — from the first pixel-art concepts to the final marketing art — was developed with Meta's Muse image model. Three Pixaloriens, one treasure, a whole planet to dig through: the game is the proof that this way of building software works.

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- [Dastan](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/meta-ai-developer-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/1003)

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