This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Rebecca Respawn
This week, I officially joined the Dev++ Community to continue building my long-form project — the Cathedral of Circuits, a modular art-and-science game and research engine that lives here:
👉 bekalah.github.io/cathedral
I’ll be honest: lately I’ve had a strange, almost creepy paranoia about being overcharged for AI or even for ordering basic tools online. Maybe it’s not paranoia — maybe it’s the world we live in, where creators get trapped between innovation and invisible costs.
Instead of quitting, I decided to make the Cathedral a living example of ethical, open technology.
Here’s how I’m stacking my tools — all free, all transparent, all modular:
• Turborepo + pnpm → modular builds I fully own
• Godot + Bevy → real 3D, physics, and story realms
• Cloudflare + GitHub Pages → hosting without hidden fees
• Tone.js + p5.js → true sound and fractal design for my labs
• Ellen 3 + Cline → orchestration I can control on my own terms
I’m not just making a game.
I’m building a research cathedral — a sanctuary where art, science, and technology meet without exploitation.
If you’ve ever built something beautiful and then felt punished by the systems meant to help you — I see you.
There is another way: slow, transparent, creative freedom.
The Cathedral is still under construction — part art, part science, part sanctuary —
but you can walk its halls anytime:
🌐 bekalah.github.io/cathedral
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Rebecca Respawn
Rebecca Respawn | Sciencx (2025-10-12T23:58:37+00:00) ✦ Building the Cathedral: Choosing Open Tools Over Fear. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/10/12/%e2%9c%a6-building-the-cathedral-choosing-open-tools-over-fear/
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