About Dungeon Engineering

Hi, I'm Panat.

I'm a bookseller at Dungeon Books in Jersey City, NJ. Sometimes I write code.

I grew up in Thailand playing D&D over IRC and play-by-post forums since there wasn't a local RPG scene. Made my way to the US for high school and college, where I finally played my first in-person game with a bunch of CS and math guys.

I'm fascinated by how programmers approach DMing - treating worldbuilding like system architecture, debugging player problems, managing campaigns like software projects.

Dungeon Engineering is where I write about this intersection.

This blog is part of Script Wizards, a project dedicated to the intersection of programming and tabletop gaming. I published the first zine in 2025 after raising money on Kickstarter, and the response from the community convinced me there was more to explore here.

When I'm not selling fantasy/sci-fi books or running games, I'm probably tinkering with Go microservices, FastAPI backends, or trying to automate some aspect of my campaign prep.

If you're working on something at the programming/RPG intersection, I'd love to hear about it: [email protected]

You can also find me on:
- LinkedIn
- GitHub
- Instagram

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