Luke Spooner
Physicist turned systems engineer. I build software that keeps an honest record of what happened and a live picture of what is probably true now — for homes, games, small businesses, and the agent teams that build them.
Looking for forward-deployed, solutions, or research engineering work. somapptic@gmail.com
This site is the portfolio and the proof. Every project card says what exists today, what is only planned, and where the evidence is. A number nobody measured reads DARK, never zero.
Selected work
Umwelt
IN BUILDDescribe a world as a small data file, feed it readings, and Umwelt keeps a live model of what is probably true, with a confidence on every belief and a forecast. One engine with no domain vocabulary, under a house, a war game, a storefront and a market tracker.
Verdance’s Ashes
SHIPPINGA single-player campaign shell for the strategy game Beyond All Reason, where the war map shows what your company believes about the planet, not what is true. The first full demo of the Umwelt engine.
Eukaryotic Eucharist
SHIPPEDA small cellular survival game, shipped and playable in the browser since July 2026: you are a young algal cell feeding, diving and grafting organs under simple local rules.
Cerebral Frame
DEPLOYEDThe consultancy: operational modelling, automation and code for small and mid-size companies. Its offer is a Frame, a model of one operation over its own records with every number marked current, stale or dark, that says what it does not know. Sold to the person who runs an operation and its budget, anywhere, on site when it matters.
The engine underneath
Describe a world as a small data file, feed it readings, and Umwelt keeps a live model of what is probably true, with a confidence on every belief and a forecast. One engine with no domain vocabulary, under a house, a war game, a storefront and a market tracker. What is proven · its first demo · built on it: 9 projects.
Where to go next
Play a finished browser game, read how the belief engine works, or see what the machine behind the work is doing right now.
Cerebral Frame is the consultancy: the same architecture, built for one small company at a time.