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Mike “Demo” Demopoulos
Mike “Demo” Demopoulos

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QueerCade: Both Sanity Challenge Paths, One Arcade

Sanity Challenge Path One Submission, Sanity Challenge Path Two Submission

I built QueerCade — a curated arcade of LGBTQ+ video games — through both paths of the Sanity challenge. One dataset powers all of it.

Path One: Ship an Agent That Queries Real Content

The QueerCade Discovery Guide is an AI agent that recommends games, characters, developers, and studios — answering only from the Sanity dataset (3,500+ documents). It never invents a game; if something isn't in the data, it says so.

Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange

The arcade itself: a retro 8-bit pixel-art storefront with the Queer Character Constellation (870+ LGBTQ+ characters plotted as stars across decades) and the Emoji Game Oracle. Every screen, filter, and graph reads from Sanity via GROQ — no other content database.

One content lake, three experiences: a storefront, an MCP-queryable agent, and a celestial graph. Built on Sanity.


Inspired by

Gayming Magazine (@gaymingmag) / X

The home of queer geek culture 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🎮🕹️ Using this platform to celebrate LGBTQ+ excellence in an act of rebellion against its owner. 💪

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AI Disclosure

AI assistance for this project:

  • Superhuman GO for MCP agent testing
  • Microsoft Copilot for idea planning
  • GitHub Copilot and Lovable for code
  • Grammarly for editing review, with human edits
  • Balsamiq AI for wireframe layouts

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