Pith Number

pith:Z4YCEZPW

pith:2026:Z4YCEZPW2KL2CINQ6BRPXT6TNO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

AI as a Democratizing Force in Indie Game Development

Brian Madanamootoo, Jatin Alla

arxiv:2608.07825 v1 · 2026-08-07 · cs.CY · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z4YCEZPW2KL2CINQ6BRPXT6TNO}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-11T01:18:33.316154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cf302265f6d297a121b0f062fbcfd36b8891006ec0d12a0fedbe20b806679425

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.07825 · arxiv_version: 2608.07825v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.07825 · pith_short_12: Z4YCEZPW2KL2 · pith_short_16: Z4YCEZPW2KL2CINQ · pith_short_8: Z4YCEZPW

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z4YCEZPW2KL2CINQ6BRPXT6TNO \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: cf302265f6d297a121b0f062fbcfd36b8891006ec0d12a0fedbe20b806679425

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f7854cdf4d37bfdab81d18a6a046c1c2c5f911e4c2b2308ad8b9ea263a4ad0db",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-07T23:56:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e2c175482ed8bb9437896a3a15324301789addbdd447afa61666d06ce23ccbf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.07825",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}