John Torbet
CV Get in touch

AI creative technologistIndie game developerCape 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
Scroll for the reel

Reel 2026

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

Flagship work

Three systems I designed and built end to end. Each page shows the result, how it works and the decisions behind it.

AI agent system · in daily use

E.V.E. & The Haven

A local-first AI agent system that looks like a 16-bit island. Each agent sleeps in its own building and wakes only when an event needs it.

  • 14 agents
  • ~4,500-line spec
  • 13 buildings, one job each

Solo-made game · free demo on Steam

PeeCee Critters

A desktop pet with a creature-collecting RPG inside it. Design, code, pixel art, music, trailers and store assets, all by me.

  • 107 critters
  • 14 lands
  • ~4 MB install

Play the free demo on Steam ↗

Audio-reactive AI engine · in development

AMBR

Listens to a track (tempo, beats, sections, energy) and uses it to direct generated visuals, so changes land on the music, not at random.

  • 138 beats in 2 min
  • 5 sections
  • 1 consumer GPU

Watch it listen →

More work

Three Overtone canvas loops side by sideOvertoneCanvas loops for musicians GReLMaJ concept render: five friends around a pool table in a neon-lit barGReLMaJ: One Last CallCo-op game in development 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 Night-time gaming desk with a lit PC, lamp and plants, from this site's Games chapterMaking this siteCreative technology 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: One Last Call

Co-op survival of a night out for 1–5 players in Unreal Engine 5. Five friends, one night across Cape Town, from pre-drinks to sunrise. Concept renders and an Unreal greybox so far.

See the plan
03 — INTERIORS

Camps Bay

Dining room opening onto a desert garden and mountains, Arizona
Cameldale residence, Arizona · for Janine Lazard Interiors

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.

  1. Camps BayGarage to apartment · Cape Town
  2. Janine Lazard InteriorsResidences · SA & USA
  3. Design by GenOffice fit-outs · UK
  4. AmalgamateShowroom bathroom · Florstore

See the Camps Bay projectJanine Lazard residences

FROM SURVEY TO RENDER

Rendered bedroom plan with finishesPlansBedroom suite, Brackenridge Construction drawing sheet for the Camps Bay conversionConstruction drawingsCamps Bay Bathroom ceiling plan, sections and detail viewsDetailsAmalgamate showroom Camps Bay living room facing the seaRendersCamps Bay, Blender
04 — PHOTOGRAPHY

On film

Palms silhouetted against a red sunset on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice
Promenade des Anglais, Nice · Minolta X-700 · 35 mm Fujifilm

56 frames on 35 mm film, most of them on a Minolta X-700, scanned from the negatives. Number plates blurred.

  1. Budapest and Szentendre2024/25 · 17
  2. Automotive, Budapest2024/25 · 7
  3. South Africa and France2024 · 9
  4. Nice2023/24 · 10
  5. Europe2022/23 · 9
  6. Cape Town2021 · 4

See all 56 frames@jhn.frederik ↗

05 — ARCHIVE

Brand & earlier work

Every spread in the book above, laid flat. Brand, packaging, social and print.

    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