Mazama Games
Games out loud
What we build
Every game runs on a language model that plays a character with a job. Brokers, in our flagship title PixelTrader, are the proof of concept using live data. The model reads a real situation, decides what it wants to do, and writes the reason in a sentence you can argue with.
The reasoning is the point. Plenty of software will make a decision for you and show you the result. These games show you the thinking first, let you disagree, and remember what you told them. The depth and accuracy of this reasoning depends on the chosen model. Local LLMs under 27b parameters are not recommended.
It runs on your machine
You choose the model. A cloud provider is the easy path for users without a gpu. You make an account, paste in a key and utilze the compute power of the cloud models. Or run a model locally with Ollama, in which case nothing leaves your computer, there is no per-minute cost, no data center and the game keeps working whether or not anyone else's servers are up.
No accounts with us, and no servers of ours. Mazama Games has nothing for you to sign up for. Your keys live in Windows Credential Manager on your own machine and are sent only to the service they belong to. There is no place for us to collect them even if we wanted to. We will provide regular, free updates for our titles but once downloaded our games belong to you. not a subscription.
Devlog
Build notes from the work itself — what broke, why, and what the fix turned out to be. It starts with eight bugs from PixelTrader that testing caught and reading the code would not have.
About us
Mazama Games is a trade name of Mazama Group LLC and an independent one-person studio based in Eugene, Oregon.
Questions, bugs, or a broker doing something inexplicable: ben@mazamagames.com.