Mashups: putting one game inside another

In September 2026 a wave of AI-built mashups went viral: skateboarding in MW2, Minecraft inside Skyrim, Elden Ring and Mario 64, Black Ops 2 inside Minecraft. They use a handful of patterns. Pick the lightest one that delivers the idea, and plan the oracles before writing code: these projects fail by drifting, not by lacking code.

Before picking a pattern

Work through these steps before writing any mashup code. The routes, patterns and projects they point to come from existing mashups. Start from the closest one, or design something else and write down why. The Guardrails at the end always apply.