Everyone's building the future. Someone has to power it.
You have a day job, ten thousand dollars, and a hunch. The world is about to run on compute — and it's going to need somewhere to run.
Start with one machine in a leased room. Buy the parts, bring the rig online, and learn the unglamorous truth of the business: the money isn't in the boom, it's in the uptime. Fill your floor with nodes and every one of them earns — but every one also draws power, throws heat, and eventually breaks at 3am.
Balance capacity against the electric bill. Cool the room or watch your margins melt. Update your drivers — carefully. And when the market turns, as it always does, decide whether you're the operator who adapts or the one who liquidates.
Climb a tech tree drawn from the real history of the last decade: the crypto mining rush, the crash, the pivot to AI compute, and whatever's coming next. Go from a spare rig in a rented room to infrastructure the world quietly depends on.
Rose will guide you. She's seen a lot of hosts come and go.
Festival Q&A
- What Do You Use AI For In Game Development?
- Artwork (capsule art, cover art, website artwork, etc), AI NPCs Actions, Asset Creation (tiles, textures, graphics, pixels, in-game assets, etc), Testing/Debugging, Story/Lore, Programming, Marketing