Joel Diab — game developer and entrepreneur in Ottawa, Canada
Field notes from an unfinished life

Joel
Diab

Game DeveloperEntrepreneurSystems ThinkerFuture Builder

“Building games today to help fund the technologies, industries, and communities of tomorrow.”

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The long game
2019 — ∞
A documentary in three chapters

Every useful thing begins as a note in the margin.

This is not a highlight reel. It is a living account of the work, questions, and future-facing experiments still taking shape.

Chapter 01

Game Development Journey

The first chapter is the studio I am building now: an AI-native game engine, creator-led games, and the long path toward a $100B studio. Games are the engine that funds the rest — but they are also the proving ground for systems, taste, and scale.

  • AI game engine
  • creator-led games
  • $100B studio
Game Development Journey — Joel Diab journey chapter
Chapter 02

AI Research Center

A massive AI datacenter structured like a research center — local models curated for specific causes, not generic cloud compute. Rent server space with a chosen mix of AI scientists, engineers, and specialists, or hand the system your plan and let it allocate resources toward the end goal.

  • local AI models
  • resource allocation
  • research infrastructure
AI Research Center — Joel Diab journey chapter
Chapter 03

Omnia — Tomorrow Land

A new country in the middle of the ocean, designed for efficiency and self-sufficiency. Its only goal is to make the world better: shared information, free education, free healthcare, free transportation. Omnia is a community-led, non-profit effort — people contribute by designing systems, writing documentation, and shaping the city of the future together.

  • self-sustaining design
  • open systems
  • community-built
Omnia — Tomorrow Land — Joel Diab journey chapter

“The goal is not to arrive quickly. It is to build a life that can keep becoming more useful.”

— A working philosophy
A letter every couple of weeks

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