HeadStart
HeadStart - The marketplace for Boilerplate on games - to remix open source games, share them, and monetize them.
Core trick
Coding-agent plugin indexes playable games and their reusable mechanics with sourced evidence, so agents build from working examples instead of a blank canvas.
Description
HeadStart - The marketplace for Boilerplate on games - to remix open source games, share them, and monetize them. HeadStart gives AI-assisted game builders a starting point instead of a blank canvas. Point your coding agent at HeadStart and it grounds your build in real, working examples instead of guessing from scratch.
It's a coding-agent plugin (works with Codex) that indexes real playable games and their reusable building blocks, engines, mechanics, world systems: with sourced evidence and creator/model attribution.
The catalog currently has 72+ researched entries and 145+ candidate building blocks. Longer-term: an optional base-plate for the hard infrastructure every game needs (accounts, monetization, ad platforming), the ability to remix existing games' building blocks into new ones, and a royalty system that pays original creators a proportional share when their work is reused and monetized downstream.
README excerpt
# HeadStart **A head start for your next game.** Discover playable games, understand their systems, and reuse suitable building blocks with guidance in your coding agent. HeadStart is the current app and plugin name. Original specification files retain their historical filenames. **Live:** [headstart-virid.vercel.app](https://headstart-virid.vercel.app/)  <video src="https://github.com/lucasaerb/headstart/raw/main/headstart-demo/renders/headstart-demo-40s-final.mp4" controls width="100%"></video> ## Start here - [Project instructions](AGENTS.md) - [Prioritized build backlog](docs/planning/README.md) - [Coder and reviewer workflow](docs/development-workflow.md) - [Selected design direction](docs/design-direction.md) - [Latest product direction](HeadStart-Starter-Package/Product-Direction-v0.4.md) - [Technical PRD](HeadStart-Starter-Package/Playparts-Technical-PRD-v0.3.md) - [Review package inventory](HeadStart-Starter-Package/START-HERE.md) The repository includes the C4 living-world site, local Node/Python catalog API, versioned contracts, SQLite evidence storage, research inventory, scoped component reviews, local briefs/comparisons and optional semantic retrieval. Production catalog hosting, verified identity, automatic website-bag retrieval and tested game integration remain separate backlog work. ## First deliverable Build a structured research database of ex