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John Torbet
AI creative technologist and indie game developer, Cape Town

I build worlds that move to music.

AI systems, games and 3D spaces, made with Blender, ComfyUI and Unreal Engine 5. Turn the sound on and the whole page listens.

Haven Morning
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Reel 2026

The Haven, Overtone, PeeCee Critters, interiors and film, cut to one of the site's tracks.

Selected work

The Haven app at dusk: a pixel-art islandE.V.E. & The HavenAI agent system Three Overtone canvas loops side by sideOvertoneCanvas loops for musicians Three audio-driven loops side by sideAMBRAudio-reactive AI engine PeeCee Critters key art with logoPeeCee CrittersDesktop pet game · free demo on Steam GReLMaJ concept render: five friends around a pool table in a neon-lit barGReLMaJ: One Last CallCo-op game in development Gaming desk scene from this site's Games chapterMaking this siteCreative technology Camps Bay open-plan kitchen and living roomCamps BayGarage-to-apartment conversion Open-plan living room in Arizona, black and whiteJanine Lazard InteriorsResidential interiors, SA & USA Colour office floor plan with desks and test roomsDesign by GenOffice fit-outs, UK Freestanding bath in a box of marble and timberAmalgamateShowroom bathroom · Florstore Palms against a red sunset in Nice, on filmFilm photography35 mm film Olympic Blend coffee bag in black and goldGeorge's Coffee BarBrand identity and packaging MIR Denim campaign templatesMIR DenimSocial campaign templates Linen book titled Archive on a reading tableBrand & earlier workArchive
01 — SYSTEMS

The Haven

Scroll and E.V.E. wakes the island, one department at a time, ending at E.V.E.'s clock tower. With sound on, every lit window pulses to the music.

E.V.E.

A local-first agent system. Agents sleep in their own buildings on a 16-bit island and wake only when there is work.

See the app

Overtone

Canvas loops for musicians: their cover art, moving on the beat behind every play on Spotify.

See Overtone

AMBR

The engine underneath: it listens to a track and turns tempo, beats and energy into visuals. Results shown, internals private.

See AMBR
02 — GAMES

Two games, one desk

PeeCee Critters

A desktop pet that roams your taskbar, meets wild critters and battles them. 107 critters, fourteen lands, no account. Free demo out now; full game January 2027.

Free demo on Steam ↗See the game
GReLMaJ concept render: five friends on a rooftop watching the sunrise over Cape TownCONCEPT RENDER · NOT GAMEPLAY

GReLMaJ: One Last Call

Co-op survival of a night out, 1–5 players, Unreal Engine 5. In development.

See the plan
03 — INTERIORS

Camps Bay

Six years of real rooms

Residential and office interiors in the UK, South Africa and the US: survey, plans, construction drawings and renders, for studios and my own clients. The walkthrough above is my Camps Bay conversion, rebuilt in Blender.

Camps Bay living room facing the seaCamps BayGarage to apartment Arizona living room in black and whiteJanine LazardResidences, SA & USA Colour office floor planDesign by GenOffice fit-outs, UK Bath in a box of marble and timberAmalgamateShowroom bathroom
04 — PHOTOGRAPHY

On film

The Chain Bridge at night, BudapestA dog in a shop doorway, SzentendreSunset on the Promenade des Anglais, NiceFerrari 488 GTB interiorThe Castle Hill waterfall, NiceEmpty streets, Szentendre

See all 56 frames Budapest and Szentendre, Nice, Cape Town, Europe and automotive.

05 — ARCHIVE

Brand & earlier work

The book's pages are the archive: scrolling turns them. Here is the same list in plain text.

    ABOUT

    Designer's eye, engineer's habits.

    I'm John Torbet, an AI creative technologist in Cape Town. I came up through interior visualisation, graphic design and film photography, and now build AI pipelines, real-time 3D and small games, mostly solo, end to end.

    I like systems that make creative work repeatable: music that drives visuals, agents that sleep until there is work, worlds generated from a map. I design how they look, then make them run.

    Tools

    • Blender (Cycles, Python)
    • Unreal Engine 5
    • ComfyUI
    • Python · JavaScript · three.js
    • Adobe CC · DaVinci Resolve

    Open to

    • Remote creative-technologist roles
    • AI video and real-time 3D projects
    • Interior and product visualisation

    Elsewhere

    Let's make something that listens.

    Open to remote creative-technologist roles and freelance work.

    CV · Instagram · PeeCee Critters on Steam

    JOHN TORBET · CAPE TOWN