About Elusion

I was one of the first to enroll at Maestro University, back in September 2025 — and I don't just take the lessons, I build with them. Elusion began only a few weeks in, and everything I've learned since has gone straight into it, sharpened against a real project instead of a worksheet. That's what keeps the work accurate and the pace honest: none of it is learning for its own sake, all of it is load-bearing. And I've tried to bring my classmates with me the whole way — leading from the front by shipping real work, not just talking about it. The more the game grows, the more I go back and rebuild — and mixing the learning with the building has taught me more than either could alone.

I met AllMind in Mirage Realms, where we shared a guild, and we went on to play Mystera Legacy and Darza's Dominion together — at least ten years of friendship, and absolute trust in each other.

When I first started Elusion, he gave me a push: he helped make some of my UI and the inventory. It wasn't much, but it was enough to give me something solid to carry the game — even while I changed the code twenty times over just to see how it worked. Then I asked him to let me code alone for a year. When I brought him back to see my progress, the results were good, and he's co-owner now: in the game he wears the CO‑OWNER badge, and in the code he builds it with me. From here we develop Elusion together, professionally — and maybe more after it.

Elusion is a top-down action RPG made in Godot 4 (GDScript), backed by a Python / Flask server with a SQLite database. It runs a full loop — town, combat, loot, pets, fishing, cooking, a smith, other players right there with you in parties and guilds, and player-to-player trading over a taxed economy — from the safe streets out through a mysterious portal, into a world that only gets harder the deeper you go.

What I care about most is treating it like real software. For a game with a server, that means assuming the player is hostile: saves are server-authoritative, the gold economy is double-entry, and a red-team bot attacks a live server to prove money, items, and stats can't be forged. There are over 11,000 automated tests behind it — 6,400 against the server, 5,200 more running inside a real Godot instance — and I ran a security self-audit against my own API — twenty findings, nineteen closed, the rest named out in the open rather than hidden.

I use AI the way I was trained to in school — as a tool, not the wheel. Everything starts with an idea and a few sharp questions; I lean on Claude to reinforce my notes and pressure-test my thinking, then I read and edit what comes back, fact-check it, and test it more than one way before it stays. When my reasoning and the running engine disagree, the engine wins and I write down why. The proof is in the repo: a git history that explains its own decisions.

Underneath the engineering, Elusion is personal. It comes out of my own life — the challenges I've come through, and a real love for art, music, and sound that I want people to feel in every corner of it. Coming from where I have, this is the game I'm hoping will lift my life, and the one I want to gather the most welcoming, positive community I can around. That's why the standard never drops.

Now the school is closing its doors — but I'm not closing this down. If anything it's pushed me harder: I give Elusion everything I've got, every single day, and I keep going because I can't stand still. This is what a year of that looks like.