hi, I'm kristiyan

a.k.a. chringles

I make games, and lately the robots that do my chores.

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Kristiyan Shikov
8 years in Unreal

games I shipped

Eight years in Unreal Engine. Visual novels, VR shooters, an RPG and a pile of jam games. Five of them made it to Steam.

Love in an Enchanted Realm cover art

Love in an Enchanted Realm

2026, visual novel + 3D combat

psst!the polaroids play as you scroll past

Veilcrest: Trial of The Arcane cover art

Veilcrest

2024, otome visual novelRuby Dreams: Immortal Promise cover art

Ruby Dreams

2024, vampire visual novelIragon cover art

Iragon

2024, fantasy RPG, VR or desktopExperiment Gone Rogue cover art

Experiment Gone Rogue

2018, VR shooter
Sprout's Journey screenshot

Sprout's Journey

GGJ23Knightmare screenshot

Knightmare

GGJ19Down with the Sickness screenshot

Down with the Sickness

GGJ18Solar Mermaid screenshot

Solar Mermaid

GGJ17

the jam pile

Global Game Jam entries. 48 hours each, built fast or not at all.

also: Thimble & Thread

a dressmaking game for the browser

robots doing chores

Since March 2026 I have been building the engine behind a crypto gaming news platform. Here is roughly how the news gets made.

  1. listensocials + market data
  2. sortmerge repeats, tag games
  3. pickscore what is news
  4. writedraft + fact checks
  5. publishsites, languages, shorts

the article writer

An LLM pipeline drafts each story, then checks built from past mistakes catch wrong names and made-up reasons for price moves.

Claude, local LLMs, Python

the market radar

Ranks gaming tokens with plain math (price moves, liquidity, news) and decides when a move is worth an article.

Python, Postgres

the shorts maker

Turns stories into short videos with a script, a voice, rendered shots, gameplay clips and captions, then posts them everywhere.

ElevenLabs, ComfyUI, ffmpeg, Whisper

how I got here

Shipping games taught me that the hardest part of building anything is finishing it. Now I build AI agents, and the habits came along: think in systems, ship under pressure, sweat the details.

  1. Sep 2016first Unreal C++
  2. Jan 2017first game jam
  3. Jan 2018second game jam
  4. Dec 2018first Steam game
  5. Jan 2019third game jam
  6. Feb 2023back at a jam
  7. Feb 2024Iragon ships
  8. May-Oct 2024two VNs back to back
  9. Feb 2026Love in an Enchanted Realm
  10. Mar 2026AI automation, now
"Messy problem nobody knows how to start? I give it to Kristiyan and forget about it. He'll probably fix the design while he's at it."
Colorado Stark
Colorado Stark
CEO at Repulse

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me@chringles.dev

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