kilobyte virtual enterprise & engine

A small crew shipping tools, games, and infrastructure

KBVE is an open-source studio and community that’s been building software since 2017. One monorepo, public CI, public roadmap, public game dev. If it’s worth building, it’s worth building where people can read the source.

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2017Founded

1Monorepo

MITLicense

OSSCommunity-funded

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Four lanes, one monorepo

What we ship

Open-source tooling

Rust crates, Astro components, Python helpers, Bevy and Unity SDKs. Reusable building blocks for the rest of the stack — and yours.

Games

Unity, Bevy, and Unreal titles — Rareicon, ChuckRPG, and an isometric arcade hub. Source in the same monorepo.

Infrastructure

Kubernetes, Cilium, Argo, Talos, Longhorn, KubeVirt — the platform under everything.

Docs & guides

This site. Engineering notes, game design docs, recipes, theory, and journal entries — everything we learn, written down.

Principles

How we work

Build in the open

Repo public, CI public, roadmap public. If you can read the code, you can review the decisions behind it.

One monorepo, many lanes

Tools, games, infra, and docs share a single Nx workspace so changes land consistently across the stack.

Permissive licensing

Most of what we ship is MIT or Unlicense. Fork it, ship it, sell it — just don’t pretend you wrote the parts you didn’t.

Small surface, sharp tools

We’d rather ship one well-tuned crate than ten half-finished ones. New abstractions earn their place.

Community-funded

No VC, no investors. GitHub Sponsors and Patreon keep the lights on, so the work answers to the people who use it.

Community-first

The crew

Maintainers

A small core team reviewing PRs, cutting releases, and running the public infrastructure. Decisions land in the repo, not in a back room.

Contributors

Anyone whose PR landed. Issues, bug reports, doc fixes, art, audio — all of it counts. The contributor wall is the git log.

Stream & chat

Saturday dev streams on Twitch. Discord runs 24/7 with announcements, build help, and game-night channels.

Sponsors

GitHub Sponsors and Patreon backers funding open-source work, bounties, and infrastructure. See the donate page for what that pays for.

Same crew, different surfaces

Find us

GitHubThe monorepo, releases, public discussions, and every CI run. Start here if you want the source of truth.DiscordCommunity chat, dev help, game-night coordination, and the bot lab. Easiest place to say hi.TwitchLive dev streams — debugging in public, game work, infra tinkering. Catch us most Saturdays.itch.ioGame builds, demos, and “name your price” releases. The storefront side of the studio.SteamWishlist upcoming KBVE titles. Rareicon and friends ship to Steam alongside itch.ForumLong-form threads — feature requests, design discussions, bug triage. Lives on kbve.com so it’s searchable forever.

Three doors

Get involved

Open a PRIssues labelled “good first issue” are picked for newcomers. Submit a draft early — we’d rather pair on a half-baked idea than wait for a polished one.Sponsor the workGitHub Sponsors and Patreon. Recurring support is the most useful — it lets us plan beyond the next month.Hang outLurk in Discord. Show up to a stream. Post in the forum. Community presence is part of the work — not separate from it.