Featured Projects
Selected work
Live products and tools, with the code and the numbers behind them.
comprehendo
Reading practice in 15 languages. Generated items are gated by a documented item-writing standard - passage-dependency validity, distractor trap types, lexical coverage - then by automated answer-key and multi-trait quality checks that fail closed. Live, in soft launch with real learners.
talata
AI essay scoring and feedback, free and non-commercial. A fine-tuned DeBERTa-v3 scorer returns four trait bands plus an overall estimate at held-out QWK 0.76 / MAE 0.63, with tail-preserving isotonic calibration and two grammar-correction models, served scale-to-zero on Modal. A commercially clean holistic checkpoint stays tested as the switch back, and the evaluation behind both is written up at tre.systems/evaluation.
cefr-workshop
A seven-part workshop teaching engineers to fine-tune DeBERTa-v3 for CEFR level prediction on serverless GPUs, from problem framing through to deployment. MAE 0.375, QWK 0.776, 99.6% adjacent accuracy.
Office Assistant
An MCP server for managing Microsoft 365 calendars in plain English - check availability, book rooms, schedule across people. Python on Microsoft Graph with delegated access.
github-org-metrics
A Python CLI for DORA metrics, PR cycle times, code churn and contribution patterns across an organisation. I wrote it to measure my own team at Cambridge, and it is what their delivery figures were reported from.
Everything else
Experiments, games and generative work - where most of the learning happens.
antenna
A self-hosted personal signal layer for people and agents, built on Cloudflare Workers, Preact, and MCP.
cepheus
A solo and co-op sci-fi tactical RPG that teaches the Cepheus Engine by playing it - character creation, campaigns, tactical combat, 3D dice, and real-time multiplayer.
confluon
Confluon: a deterministic energy-driven audiovisual instrument
delta-v
Turn-based multiplayer space combat with persistent vector physics, orbital mechanics, and optional AI players through a machine-native API and MCP.
empiricalrecords
Independent archive of experimental electronic music - generative canvas art, audio-reactive visuals, custom audio player
evo
Browser artificial-life: thousands of gene-carrying creatures evolve by natural selection - speciating into distinct colours and body plans, hunting, and riding boom/bust cycles. Rust → multithreaded WASM, rendered with WebGPU.
galacto
A GPU-accelerated, self-gravitating N-body galaxy sandbox in the browser - spiral disks, galaxy mergers, and dark-matter halos, with a generative soundscape. Built with Rust, WebAssembly, and WebGPU.
geno-1
Generative Music Visualizer. Real-time microtonal audio synthesis and 3D visualization powered by Rust, WebAudio & WebGPU.
geno-2
Ambient generative audiovisual instrument built with Rust, WebAssembly, WebGPU, and WebAudio
planeo
Autonomous Agent Playground. Multi-agent simulation where Vision-Language Models interact in a shared React Three Fiber 3D world.
planeto
Multiplayer physics sandbox in space. Procedural planetoid clusters synchronized via SSE in a React Three Fiber + Rapier world.
pongo
Real-time multiplayer Pong on the edge. Built with Rust + WebAssembly, Cloudflare Durable Objects, and WebGPU. Featuring a shared deterministic game core and client-side prediction.
rgou-cloudflare
Offline-first Royal Game of Ur with search, self-play ML, and solved-game-distilled Oracle AI in React, Rust/WASM, and Cloudflare Workers.
rowspire
Open-source browser strategy game with tactical-search and neural-network AI, built with React, Rust/WASM, Vite, and Cloudflare.
royal-game-of-ur-cli
Terminal-based Royal Game of Ur. State-machine core with pluggable AI agents (Minimax, MCTS), built in Clojure & NBB.
speako
Privacy-first speaking coach. Real-time grammar and fluency analysis running 100% in-browser via WebAssembly & Whisper.
Swade Toolbox
A live Savage Worlds character builder and gallery with structured AI generation, deterministic rules validation, bounded revision, model evaluation, and AI portraits.
About Total Reality Engineering
I design systems that pair artistic instincts with disciplined engineering, delivering software that is durable, performant, and delightful to use.
Total Reality Engineering is the independent studio of Robert Gilks, where design meets engineering to build bespoke interactive experiences, research tools, and production platforms.
Founded in Australia in 1998 • Established in the UK in 2008