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VELNEST

Give a Twitch community a shared 3D lounge inside the broadcast, where signed-in viewers move, react and take a seat together.

Primary audience
Streamers who want their community on screen, and viewers who want to be part of the stream instead of a line in chat.
My role
Solo build · Product · 3D art direction · Real-time systems · Twitch integration · QA · Film
Working stack
React · TypeScript · Three.js · Fastify · Socket.IO · Twitch OAuth · Blender Python · HyperFrames
Status
Submitted to the Codex × TwitchCon Hackathon · Live Twitch demo

01 / Shipped artifact

Summary

A viewer controller for desktop and phone, an OBS overlay view of the same room, an authoritative realtime room server, and a 3-minute submission film.

Quantified snapshot
12/12
QA suites passing
18
Animation clips
24
Viewers per room
4
Days to submission
File & data footprint
  • 12/12 QA suites on Windows and Linux CI
  • 3 rigged characters × 6 animation clips
  • 24 viewers per room, 3 reservable seats
  • Live on Twitch, Oct 29, 2026
  • 4 days from first commit to submission

02 / Content and UX decisions

Decisions

DDR-001 · Content decision

Label everything that is not live: demo mode for judges, the staged motion study, and simulated viewers in tests. The film labels each real capture.

DDR-002 · Experience decision

One room, two views: viewers control it from a browser while the stream shows a clean overlay, and the server decides every position and seat so both always match.

03 / Delivery evidence

Delivery evidence

  1. 01

    Server-side Twitch OAuth with token validation, opaque sessions and optional subscriber-only admission.

  2. 02

    Three Blender-built characters with interchangeable props and authored walk, sit and reaction animation.

  3. 03

    Server-owned seating and a five-minute broadcaster timeout that follows the verified identity.

  4. 04

    A 3-minute HyperFrames film with first-person Kokoro narration and an original score synthesized in code.

04 / Role signals

Role fit

  • Directing an AI coding agent end to end
  • Real-time multiplayer systems
  • OAuth and platform integration
  • 3D art direction and pipelines
  • Honest demo and evidence
Validation

Twelve suites cover exported animation clips, pathfinding, concurrent seat claims, sign-in against a simulated Twitch provider, moderation, capacity and asset disposal, run locally and in GitHub Actions on Windows and Linux; the room was then shown live through OBS on the real Twitch player.

Boundary

Not hosted publicly; judges run the labelled demo mode locally. A second real viewer account and a physical-phone walkthrough remain unverified.

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06 / Documentation record history

Record history

Documentation version, not product release.

Documentation version
v1.0.0
Last updated
  1. v1.0.0

    Submitted to the Codex × TwitchCon Hackathon on Devpost with a 3-minute film: HyperFrames edit of the real recordings, first-person Kokoro narration and an original score.

  2. v0.9.0

    Ran an authorized public demo on Twitch: the room appeared in the actual Twitch player through OBS, with character entry, reactions, accessories and seating.

  3. v0.1.0

    First vertical slice: shared room server, viewer controller, OBS overlay and modular 3D avatars.