CONTRABAND: Edge of the Fold
Developer. Published by Martinez AI Studios on Steam.
Instructor
Dero Lavigne
A Martinez AI Studios education product
Instructor · developer · case-study practitioner
Dero Lavigne is the instructor for Martinez AI Studios Academy and the developer of CONTRABAND: Edge of the Fold. He directs the work; Martinez AI Studios publishes it. The Academy teaches from that real development process — not from toy examples.
Dero Lavigne
How the roles connect
Dero builds. Martinez AI Studios publishes. Dero is not the publisher of Martinez AI Studios, and the Academy is not a separate company.
Martinez AI Studios Academy is the education platform. Dero teaches the flagship program as instructor and practitioner — he does not host checkout, enrollment, or certificates on derolavigne.com.
Developer portfolio: derolavigne.com/
What he teaches from
AI can write the code. You still need to understand the game.
- AI-native game development judgment
- Game systems and architecture
- Debugging and root-cause analysis
- QA and Steam release practice
Selected relevant works
CONTRABAND Academy case studies
Verified development postmortems used in teaching.
Kaela Inferna
Creator. Published under the Martinez AI Studios imprint.
CONTRABAND in the curriculum
He teaches from the actual development process behind CONTRABAND: Edge of the Fold. Verified Academy case studies document real incidents from that Steam title.
Lessons are free to read on this site. LMS accounts and certificates are not live on this public host.