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ALEX/PRISTER
Issue No. 02 / The Lovingly Overbuilt EditionPublic work · Private life · Sensible velvet ropes

The project edition / Ceremonial lights on

The collected works of a man who keeps
accidentally starting worlds.

Films, playable worlds, prototypes, photography, and analysis—arranged with the ceremonial seriousness of a small museum and enough self-awareness to leave the marble bust uncommissioned.

Primary worldThe Matrix Rebooted — the complete undertakingWorldbuildingGalactic Voxel Wars from planet to civilizationFilm archiveBullsEye — an original feature filmFilms, games & Steam hoursWhy legendary works endure — and how long I spent inside them
Concept visualization for Galactic Voxel Wars
Concept visualization · Not gameplayStrategy at civilization scale, because one planet apparently seemed like a reasonable minimum.
Work-in-progress Source 2 capture from The Matrix Rebooted NYC RideCover story · Active developmentInside Matrix Rebooted—one does not simply build NYC, but Alex is making a remarkably thorough attempt.
Native runtimeStandaloneArchitecture before overclaiming. Victory laps remain evidence-based.Systems studyFlight SimAircraft, practice loops, and debriefing.

Dispatch desk / Active, finished, and accurately labeled

Built, building
& released.

Active work sits beside finished releases. Every status says what exists, what remains unfinished, and what shipped—because even a shrine needs honest museum placards.

01Active Source 2 development

The Matrix Rebooted / NYC Ride

The Construct, NYC Ride, Panorama interfaces, scripted handoffs, models, materials, lighting, sound, particles, and production tools.

02Milestone 1.5

Standalone conversion

All 22 technical evidence gates pass; user acceptance is still pending. The first Matrix level conversion remains ahead.

03Lite mode / C++20 + Vulkan

Galactic Voxel Wars

A running planetary sandbox for terrain, roads, districts, colony systems, visible agents, debug controls, and save/load.

04Released / feature film

BullsEye

An 85-minute crime, action, and comedy feature spanning writing, production, cinematography, editing, casting, and visual effects.

Practice 01 / Playable systems

Interactive
worlds

Worlds built through rules, movement, atmosphere, iteration, and the ancient ritual of changing one value until it behaves.

Source 2C++20DirectX 12VulkanVScript
Explore the projects ↘
Voxel project toolbench interfaceThe working method

Build
test

Show the evidence. Then gesture toward it dramatically.

Practice 02 / Film & image

Stories in
motion

Feature film, visual effects, photography, editing, and cinematic staging—proof that Alex occasionally permits pixels to move without player input.

BullsEyeMatrix RebootedPhotographyVisual effects
Open the film archive ↘
The Matrix Rebooted NYC Ride world in active Source 2 development
Primary world / 01Source 2 / Active

Feature presentation / Active development

The Matrix
Rebooted

The complete creative undertaking—not merely NYC Ride, though NYC Ride has clearly developed its own gravitational field.

The Matrix Impossible was published in 2024 as five Half-Life: Alyx Workshop packages. The Matrix Rebooted is the continuing umbrella for the Source 2 worlds and systems growing from them. The Workshop listing is not currently publicly downloadable while the next update is in development.

View the original Workshop listing ↗

Unofficial, noncommercial fan work. Not affiliated with the Matrix rights holders, Valve, or Half-Life: Alyx.

01

The Construct

The playable opening package and the current wormhole and transition work.

02

Sydney & the lobby

Street level, subway transition, campaign credits, and lobby combat.

03

Rooftop & helicopter

Bullet-dodge staging, minigun flight, and the helicopter finale.

04

Dojo & training

Two training maps built around close combat and movement practice.

05

Rebooted development

NYC Ride, interfaces, handoffs, models, materials, lighting, sound, and tools.

Project desk / Honest status included · Grand ideas still require release notes

Released work.
Active prototypes.

Each project is labeled for what it is now—not what it may become. Grandeur is encouraged; imaginary completion dates are not.

Concept visualization for the long-range Galactic Voxel Wars directionActive prototype / concept visualization · Not gameplay
01

Galactic Voxel Wars

The current lite-mode build demonstrates a chunked planet and autonomous colony sandbox. The larger journey from settlement to interplanetary strategy remains the roadmap.

Poster for the independent feature film BullsEyeReleased / 85-minute feature film
02

BullsEye

A stylized crime, action, and comedy feature set in 1935, built across writing, directing, production, cinematography, editing, casting, and visual effects.

Matrix Rebooted standalone combat sandbox prototypeTechnical evidence ready / acceptance pending
03

Standalone conversion

A C++20 and DirectX 12 runtime prototype advancing the architecture needed to move beyond the original mod, without presenting the world conversion as complete.

Playable studies / Earlier proofs

Three focused machines for learning by building—and evidence that the larger machines were not an isolated incident.

Hardline Rescue prototype

Hardline Rescue

Helicopter rescue, momentum, cable strain, and pendulum control.

Rooftop Stickfight prototype

Rooftop Stickfight

A touch-friendly combat study for pose, timing, hit reactions, and staging.

Nebuchadnezzar Sewer Run prototype

Nebuchadnezzar Sewer Run

Procedural tunnels, heat, noise, silent running, Sentinel pressure, and EMP timing.

Systems & tools / Platform boundaries clearly marked

Every tool gets its own plaque.
Especially the BI platforms.

IBM Cognos Analytics, Amazon QuickSight, and Apache Superset are three distinct business-intelligence platforms. SQL and Python are shared foundations used across them—not parts of Cognos.

Enterprise BI platform

IBM Cognos Analytics

Framework Manager, governed metadata models, report authoring, administration, validation, documentation, and training.

Cloud BI platform

Amazon QuickSight

Datasets, calculated fields, dashboards, interactive analysis, publishing, permissions, and embedded analytics.

Open-source BI platform

Apache Superset

SQL-driven exploration, semantic datasets, charts, dashboards, filters, and open-source deployment.

Shared foundations

SQL & Python

Data access, transformation, validation, automation, analysis, and the connective tissue shared across BI platforms.

Source 2 production

Worlds that can answer back

Hammer, VScript, Panorama, scripted transitions, materials, lighting, sound, particles, models, and package handoffs. Sometimes the scene needs a system. Sometimes the system needs its own system.

Native runtime

Standalone architecture

C++20, DirectX 12, Vulkan, asset packages, simulation, input, render validation, and evidence-driven milestone gates.

World generation

Procedural structure

Voxel terrain, roads, districts, agents, colony systems, OpenStreetMap-derived geometry, and repeatable export checks.

Working utilities

Tools built because they were missing

Fluency Loop, Source 2 Mod Analyzer, QuickSight GPT, deployment helpers, production scripts, and project-local automation. When the missing tool becomes obvious, the complaint tends to become another prototype.

Photography / Selected frames

The world,
kept in frames.

Landscape, wildlife, macro, water, and natural-history studies—proof that the curator occasionally looks away from a viewport.

Open the photography archive ↗
Mountain landscape at sunsetLandscape / Last lightMacro study of a dragonflyMacro / DragonflySunset over the waterWater / Horizon studyCormorant lifting a fish from rippled waterWildlife / The catch

Film & image archive / The lights dim respectfully

Stories built
across media.

BullsEye is an 85-minute independent feature—and a persuasive argument against ever saying “I'll just make a movie” casually.

The wider archive includes Scarlet Knight / Atlantic Crossing documentary work, narrative shorts, directing and camera reels, and CGI studies.

BullsEye project ↑Vimeo project channel ↗YouTube project channel ↗

Reading rooms / The tasteful east wing of the shrine

Enter the
departments.

Project-adjacent subjects, gathered without marble statuary because the bandwidth was needed elsewhere. Professional information stays on LinkedIn, and contact remains indirect.

01External

LinkedIn

Professional information is kept off this site and handed over to LinkedIn's own access controls.

02Gallery

Original 3D models

A display-only gallery of locally verified original geometry made for interactive worlds.

03Interactive lab

Data Analytics Lab

A database-backed BI laboratory for Cognos, Framework Manager, SQL, Python, QuickSight, and Superset.

04Analysis

Flight Sim

A systems-focused look at simulated aircraft, training loops, mission design, and debriefing.

05Archive

Photography

Selected landscape, wildlife, macro, and natural-history frames.

06Reviews & playtime

Favorite films & games

Long-form analysis of enduring works, the Steam hours behind eight favorite games, and the story behind 15,000+ hours in Half-Life: Alyx.

07Reading room

Human nature

Casanova, conversation, rhetoric, attention, consent, and the ethics of influence.

08Reading room

Philosophy

Major thinkers, English-language works, practical Stoicism, and Eckhart Tolle's teachings presented clearly.

09Discussion

Religion & meaning

Faith, doubt, ritual, ethics, interpretation, and humanity's oldest questions - handled with care.

1066 books / 1,189 chapters

The Complete Bible

A complete illustrated reading edition from Genesis 1:1 through Revelation 22:21, with all 66 books, modern study context, search, and evidence-aware interactive geography.

11Analysis

Telepathy & evidence

Intuition, coincidence, psychology, experimental standards, and the remote-viewing record.

12Learning library

The History Room

U.S. history, ancient worlds, the Renaissance, Sumer, and ancient-astronaut claims examined through evidence, context, and primary sources.

13Investigation

9/11 Evidence Room

A deep reconstruction of the plot, four flights, institutional failures, structural evidence, and major conspiracy claims.

14Investigation

Iraq War Ledger

WMD claims, inspections, invasion, occupation decisions, ISIS, costs, and the strongest arguments across political lines.

15Interactive atlas

Strait of Hormuz Atlas

An interactive, dated atlas of the chokepoint, energy flows, international law, rival claims, and the 2026 shipping crisis.

16Research

UAP file

Released records, official assessments, unresolved cases, and clearly labeled plasmoid claims.

17Twitch stream

The Broadcast Wing

Live games, flight simulation, project work, experiments, and whatever has currently captured Alex's unreasonable attention.

18Contact

Send a message

An indirect contact form that routes replies by email without publishing an address.

Next issue / Determined by the work and whatever Alex builds on the way there

Return when the projects move.
They have a habit of doing that.

Build status, new images, released work, analysis, and technical evidence will change as the archive grows—often while everyone is looking directly at it.

Return to the dispatch desk ↑Send a message ↗