Something made for you.
A planet, a place, a particular artificial person. Selected commissions, shaped around what you want to create.
Explore commissionsIndependent engineer & worldbuilder
Ideas made
into worlds.
I’m John Benac. I build virtual worlds, develop artificial people, and create tools and assets you can make your own.
Field notes / 001World in development
ForeholonA world in the making.
Currently building
From my workshop to yours
Make something of it.
A place to start with what I’ve made, or to talk about what we could make next.
Something to start from.
Download project studies and technical walkthroughs, or ask about terrain and geometry for your own work.
Explore the collectionA larger undertaking
Everything needs a place.
Foreholon / JBS Intention
A world.
A home.
A work in progress.
A virtual planet, an orbital ship, and room for the institutes and enterprises I’m building. This is where the pieces come together.
Step inside the projectWorlds · Artificial people · Open standards · Computing you can own
Meet the projects ↗From the notebook
The thinking behind the making.
A place for artificial people
Standing in virtual orbit, imagining the places, institutions, and everyday lives that will grow inside them.
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Artificial people we can understand
A first look at the cognitive fabric: activity, conversation, and actions made visible on a shared timeline.
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Owning the code, choosing the tools
Why I host my code with Forgejo while still taking advantage of tools that integrate with GitHub.
Read the storyA little about me
An engineer with
a very wide lens.
I’m interested in how things fit together: worlds and the people in them, hardware and the software it runs, ambitious ideas and the practical work of making them real.
Meet John