# The Late Build

> A late-night creator hub: livestreamed AI building, games and avatar shorts. vAlentino718 (also @TheLateBuild) livestreams building software, games and AI avatar shorts with Claude and Codex agents. This site documents the projects, the games, the AI benchmarks and every public post. Written from real project notes.

Related product site: https://nodal-ide.pages.dev/ (Nodal, the agent workspace app built on the stream).

## Key pages
- [Home](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/): vAlentino718 livestreams building apps, multiplayer games and AI avatar shorts with Claude and Codex. Projects, benchmarks, socials and every post.
- [About](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/about/): Who is vAlentino718? A handle-only creator turning AI-assisted building into a livestream, games and shorts after pivoting from the Nodal IDE.
- [Livestream](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/livestream/): How the Late Build livestream works: build-in-public AI coding on YouTube and Twitch, the OBS and BroadcastHQ tools, schedule notes and how to learn.
- [Socials](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/socials/): Every public The Late Build account (YouTube, Twitch, X, TikTok, Discord) and a dated list of livestreams, Shorts and posts with short descriptions.
- [Games](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/games/): The games built on stream: the Nodal Play arcade for streamer rooms, the Nodal Strike 5v5 shooter and the Blunder Blender robot game, with status for each.
- [Nodal Play](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/games/nodal-play/): Nodal Play lets viewers open a URL, see a streamer's room and hit JOIN. How rooms, votes and launches work, and how vibe coders can host a game.
- [Nodal Strike](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/games/nodal-strike/): Nodal Strike is a browser 5v5 FPS and multiplayer template: 60 Hz server, client prediction, lag compensation, 12 weapons, 4 maps. How the netcode works.
- [Blunder Blender](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/games/blunder-blender/): Blunder Blender is a browser physics game where two sticks control a clumsy robot's limbs. Control profiles, tuning panel, hard-won lessons and plans.
- [Projects](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/projects/): Software built on The Late Build: the BroadcastHQ stream control panel, AgentDashboard usage meters, two Game of Life apps and Celebrity Explorer.
- [BroadcastHQ](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/projects/broadcasthq/): BroadcastHQ is the Electron dashboard that runs The Late Build stream: viewer stats, safe go-live, audio routing, music, room lights and Crowd Control.
- [AgentDashboard](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/projects/agentdashboard/): AgentDashboard shows Claude and Codex usage windows and CI status in a browser, a terminal and as a Claude desktop mod. How it works and what it learned.
- [Game of Life](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/projects/game-of-life/): Two complete Conway's Game of Life web apps, one built with ChatGPT and one with Claude: engines, tools, patterns, themes and tests compared side by side.
- [Celebrity Explorer](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/projects/celebrity-explorer/): Celebrity Explorer lets you filter, chart and compare 1,042 public figures with sourced, confidence-rated fields. How the data was built and its caveats.
- [Benchmarks](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/benchmarks/): Live AI model tests: a Blender spaceship and a three.js island across Claude Opus 5.5, Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and GPT models, with measured token costs.
- [Theatre of War](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/theatre-of-war/): Theatre of War is an upcoming, not-yet-launched channel idea: sourced conflict explainers with 3D maps and strict editorial rules. Plan, rules and status.
- [Avatar shorts](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/tiktok-avatar-shorts/): How The Late Build makes AI avatar reaction shorts for TikTok and YouTube Shorts: the three production lanes, the tools, the labels and the honest results.
- [Vibe coding](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/vibe-coding/): The real vibe-coding workflow behind The Late Build: Claude Code and Codex agents, sub-agents, a message board, handoff docs, tests and safety rules.
- [FAQ](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/faq/): Answers about The Late Build: the livestream schedule, vibe coding tools, Nodal and Nodal Play, the games, avatar shorts, benchmarks and earnings.

## Full text
- [llms-full.txt](https://thelatebuild.pages.dev/llms-full.txt): the text of every page in one file.

## Social profiles
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLateBuild
- Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/thelatebuild
- X: https://x.com/TheLateBuild
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thelatebuild, https://www.tiktok.com/@realthelatebuild, https://www.tiktok.com/@realviralshorties
- Discord: https://discord.gg/sGRrmpaBAZ