What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of the transformer
Summary
Georg Zoeller analyzes reverse engineering and modernising an old war game to illustrate how transformer AI and modern tooling are reshaping the economics of creation. The piece describes porting War of the Lance in a browser environment using Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next, Three.js, Blender headless, and related tools, arguing that such capabilities foreshadow rapid, commoditized knowledge and potential IP tensions in the game industry.