James Portman — Claude apps, media, and paintings

No Exit host console during a staged game: three teams at 4, 3 and 1 puzzles solved, standings, and a live clock

No Exit

A self-hosted virtual escape room for remote teams. Six to fifteen people split into competing teams on a video call and race through the same 30-minute adventure while the host watches progress, drops hints, and calls the winner. Ten adventures, each ending on its own mechanic; the interface runs in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The repository is public, but every puzzle answer ships as ciphertext — you can read the whole engine without spoiling a single adventure.

FreeTen adventuresThree languagesOpen Source
Open No Exit → How it's built → GitHub →
Terra Incognita in daylight theme — a photograph beside a cream world map waiting for your pin

Terra Incognita

A where-in-the-world guessing game: you get a photo of a real place — or a drop into Street View — and you put a pin on the world map. Play solo, take the Weekly Expedition, or host a live room where people can join from any device with a four-letter code and guess against one clock. The interface runs in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

FreeLive roomsStreet ViewThree languages
Play the game → Read the build note → GitHub →
Beyond Doubt: a sixteen-work auction board of Georgian Bay paintings beside the clue panel, with the day's deductions listed

Beyond Doubt

A deduction puzzle you are never asked to guess at. Every board resolves by reasoning alone: before a move is allowed, the solver checks every world still consistent with the clues in play, and a square you could only guess at is simply refused. A new board each day, a weekly edition, and an archive back to launch — themed here as an auction of Georgian Bay paintings, though the theme is a skin over one engine. English, Spanish and Portuguese, each with proper gender and number agreement.

FreeDaily boardNo guessing, everThree languages
Play the game → How it was built →
Singhampton: Winter — an original Georgian Bay landscape painting

GeorgianArtist.com

An online gallery of my original Canadian landscape paintings and photographs of Georgian Bay and the surrounding Ontario region — Beaver River, Blue Mountain, Manitoulin, Owen Sound — sold as originals and gallery-wrapped, ready-to-hang prints. I rebuilt the storefront from Squarespace to a custom Next.js stack, taking hosting from $45/mo to $0.

Original artOwn your galleryNo monthly fees
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Scenic Caves Singhampton: Winter Bruce Trail in the Grey Highlands Council Beach Lora Bay Alpine Ski: Fall Beaver River Access Inglis Falls, Owen Sound Manitoulin Island Ravenna Canola Field Ravenna Sunset Northwinds Beach Delphi Point The Grotto Blue Mountain Trail Autumn Canopy Clarksburg Library Ravenna Canola Northwinds Beach Twilight Blue Mountain Sunrise Blue Mountain Sunset Local Farm Bridal Veil Falls Snowy Owl in Craigleith
2026 World Cup Pool app — create a pool and share a join code with friends

2026 World Cup Pool

A solo-built, open-source bracket-pool app that ran through the 2026 FIFA World Cup (USA · Mexico · Canada). Players created a pool, shared a join code with friends, and the leaderboard updated as results came in. The tournament is over and the app is still up, /architecture page and all — it was built end to end in a few evenings.

FreeOpen SourceInvite by codeRan June–July 2026
Visit the app → GitHub →
baylight.city — the Baylight: After Image hub, with sections for the city, the audiobook, the microdrama and the prequel

baylight.city

The hub for Baylight: After Image — hand-coded, no CMS, no framework. It carries the novella, the full audiobook, the microdrama episodes, and the free prequel, with a language switcher that serves the whole site in English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Persian.

Hand-codedStaticSix languagesOpen Source
Visit baylight.city → GitHub →
Baylight: After Image cover — a near-future surveillance thriller

Baylight: After Image

A near-future surveillance thriller — “the city doesn't punish, it helps” — told across three forms: a 23-chapter novella, a full audiobook, and a microdrama series. The novels are available in English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Persian. Episodes on YouTube with more in Production.

MicrodramaNovellaAudiobook
Visit baylight.city → Watch on YouTube →
Original Recording — commuters passing through a transit gate under a sign reading Thank you for your cooperation

Original Recording

A free prequel to Baylight: After Image, as a short story and a narrated audiobook of about eight minutes. Ava Chen spends three days in a studio recording 14,000 vocal fragments — syllables, breaths, the word please forty-two times, each with a different weight — and signs away perpetual rights to her vocal identity. Years later the city speaks to eight million people in her voice. They didn't steal a voice. They stole a way of caring. Available in English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Persian.

FreeShort storyAudiobookPrequel
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