diff --git a/bs.js b/bs.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e1da857
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bs.js
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+import chokidar from 'chokidar';
+import cluster from 'cluster';
+import { QMainWindow } from '@nodegui/nodegui';
+import { watchFile } from 'fs';
+import watch from 'watch';
+
+if(cluster.isMaster) {
+  cluster.fork();
+} else {
+  // chokidar.watch('test.js', {
+  //   useFsEvents: false,
+  //   usePolling: false,
+  //   ""
+  // }).on('all', (a, b) => console.log(a, b));
+  watch.watchTree('out', console.log);
+  // watchFile('test.js', console.log)
+}
+
diff --git a/lib/aliases.mjs b/lib/aliases.mjs
index bdcac20..4bb3c08 100644
--- a/lib/aliases.mjs
+++ b/lib/aliases.mjs
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ const moduleAliases = {
 	"@tasks": "./out/src/registries/Tasks.js",
 	"@items": "./out/src/registries/Items.js",
 	"@world": "./out/src/World.js",
-	"@ui": "./out/src/term-ui/UI.js",
+	// "@ui": "./out/src/term-ui/UI.js",
+	"@ui": "./out/src/qt/index.js",
 	"@game": "./out/src/Game.js"
 };
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index cdd96c4..3505f16 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
     "@types/fs-extra": "^9.0.11",
     "@types/mocha": "^8.2.2",
     "@types/uuid": "^8.3.0",
+    "@types/watch": "^1.0.2",
     "@types/ws": "^7.4.5",
     "@web/dev-server": "^0.1.18",
     "bonjour": "^3.5.0",
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@
     "typescript": "^4.3.2",
     "uuid": "^8.3.2",
     "walk-sync": "^3.0.0",
+    "watch": "^1.0.2",
     "ws": "^7.4.6",
     "yarn": "^1.22.10"
   },
@@ -47,6 +49,7 @@
     "lint": "eslint src/**/*.ts",
     "web": "web-dev-server --open index.html --node-resolve --watch",
     "profile": "node --inspect-brk --no-warnings --loader ./lib/aliases.mjs --enable-source-maps out/src/index.js",
-    "gui": "qode qode.js"
+    "gui": "qode out/src/qt/qode.js",
+    "qode": "qode"
   }
 }
diff --git a/qode.js b/qode.js
deleted file mode 100644
index ec2bb1c..0000000
--- a/qode.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-import {
-  QMainWindow,
-  QWidget,
-  QLabel,
-  FlexLayout,
-  QPushButton,
-  QIcon
-} from '@nodegui/nodegui';
-// import logo from '../assets/logox200.png';
-
-const win = new QMainWindow();
-win.setWindowTitle("Hello World");
-
-const centralWidget = new QWidget();
-centralWidget.setObjectName("myroot");
-const rootLayout = new FlexLayout();
-centralWidget.setLayout(rootLayout);
-
-const label = new QLabel();
-label.setObjectName("mylabel");
-label.setText("Hello");
-
-const button = new QPushButton();
-// button.setIcon(new QIcon(logo));
-
-const label2 = new QLabel();
-label2.setText("World");
-label2.setInlineStyle(`
-  color: red;
-`);
-
-rootLayout.addWidget(label);
-rootLayout.addWidget(button);
-rootLayout.addWidget(label2);
-win.setCentralWidget(centralWidget);
-win.setStyleSheet(
-  `
-    #myroot {
-      background-color: #009688;
-      height: '100%';
-      align-items: 'center';
-      justify-content: 'center';
-    }
-    #mylabel {
-      font-size: 16px;
-      font-weight: bold;
-      padding: 1;
-    }
-  `
-);
-win.show();
-
-global.win = win;
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Clustering.ts b/src/Clustering.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81f1b1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Clustering.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+import cluster from 'cluster';
+import chokidar from 'chokidar';
+import watch from 'watch';
+
+let init: Function = null;
+const hotReload = true;
+let restartTimer: NodeJS.Timeout = null;
+
+let worker: cluster.Worker = null;
+function createWorker() {
+  start();
+
+  function start() {
+    if (cluster.isMaster) {
+      worker = cluster.fork();
+      // console.log(worker);
+      // worker.process.stdout.pipe(process.stdout);
+      // worker.process.stderr.pipe(process.stderr);
+      worker.on('message', (message) => {
+        if(message === 'ipc-restart') {
+          worker.on('exit', () => {
+            setTimeout(createWorker, 0);
+          });
+          worker.kill();
+        } else if (message === 'ipc-quit') {
+          worker.on('exit', () => {
+            process.exit(0);
+          })
+          worker.kill();
+        }
+      });
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// from any cluster context, gracefully exit if needed, and begin anew!
+export function restart() {
+  if (cluster.isWorker) {
+    process.send('ipc-restart');
+  } else if(worker) {
+    worker.on('exit', () => {
+      setTimeout(createWorker, 0);
+    })
+    worker.kill();
+  } else {
+    createWorker();
+  }
+}
+
+export function quit() {
+  if (cluster.isWorker) {
+    process.send('ipc-quit');
+  }
+}
+
+export function start() {
+  if(init) {
+    if (cluster.isWorker) {
+      init();
+    } else {
+      // TODO make hotreload actually bring a popup on the client
+      // so that the user should press enter to enable a reload.
+      if(hotReload) {
+        function fileChange(f: watch.FileOrFiles) {
+          console.log('changes detected');
+          // appendFileSync('log.log', evt + ' ' + path + '\n');
+          // console.log(cluster.isMaster, evt, path);
+          if(restartTimer) clearTimeout(restartTimer)
+          restartTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+            restart();
+            restartTimer = null;
+          }, 1000);
+        }
+        // chokidar.watch('./out').on('all', fileChange);
+        watch.watchTree('./out', fileChange);
+      } else {
+        createWorker();
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+
+export function setInitialize(fn: Function) {
+  init = fn;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index e09b5c9..6a8da03 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -7,75 +7,12 @@ import { Game } from '@game';
 import { isStarted, stop, render } from '@ui';
 import { writeFileSync } from 'fs';
 import ansi from 'sisteransi';
-import { spawn } from 'child_process';
 import cluster from 'cluster';
-import chokidar from 'chokidar';
+if(cluster.isMaster) cluster.setupMaster();
+import { setInitialize, start } from './Clustering.js';
 
-const hotReload = true;
-let restartTimer: NodeJS.Timeout = null;
-
-let worker: cluster.Worker = null;
-function createWorker() {
-  start();
-
-  function start() {
-    if (cluster.isMaster) {
-      worker = cluster.fork();
-      worker.on('message', (message) => {
-        if(message === 'ipc-restart') {
-          worker.on('exit', () => {
-            setTimeout(createWorker, 0);
-          })
-          worker.kill();
-        } else if (message === 'ipc-quit') {
-          worker.on('exit', () => {
-            process.exit(0);
-          })
-          worker.kill();
-        }
-      });
-    }
-  }
-}
-
-// from any cluster context, gracefully exit if needed, and begin anew!
-export function restart() {
-  if (cluster.isWorker) {
-    process.send('ipc-restart');
-  } else if(worker) {
-    worker.on('exit', () => {
-      setTimeout(createWorker, 0);
-    })
-    worker.kill();
-  } else {
-    createWorker();
-  }
-}
-
-export function quit() {
-  if (cluster.isWorker) {
-    process.send('ipc-quit');
-  }
-}
-
-if (cluster.isWorker) {
-  begin();
-} else {
-  // TODO make hotreload actually bring a popup on the client
-  // so that the user should press enter to enable a reload.
-  if(hotReload) {
-    chokidar.watch('./out').on('all', (evt, path) => {
-      appendFileSync('log.log', evt + ' ' + path + '\n');
-      if(restartTimer) clearTimeout(restartTimer)
-      restartTimer = setTimeout(() => {
-        restart();
-        restartTimer = null;
-      }, 1000);
-    })
-  } else {
-    createWorker();
-  }
-}
+setInitialize(begin);
+start();
 
 async function begin() {
   console.clear();
diff --git a/src/qt/index.ts b/src/qt/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/src/qt/qode.ts b/src/qt/qode.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bb7e803
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/qt/qode.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+
+import {
+  QMainWindow,
+  QWidget,
+  QGridLayout,
+  QPushButton
+} from '@nodegui/nodegui';
+import chokidar from 'chokidar';
+
+import cluster from 'cluster';
+import { watchFile } from 'fs';
+if (cluster.isMaster) cluster.setupMaster();
+import { setInitialize, start } from '../Clustering.js';
+
+
+setInitialize(() => {
+
+  const win = new QMainWindow();
+  win.setFixedSize(800, 600);
+  win.setWindowTitle("Hello World");
+  const centralWidget = new QWidget();
+  centralWidget.setObjectName("myroot");
+  win.setCentralWidget(centralWidget);
+  const rootLayout = new QGridLayout();
+  // rootLayout.addWidget
+  
+  centralWidget.setLayout(rootLayout);
+
+  
+
+  const button = new QPushButton();
+  button.setText('Testing Font Family');
+  rootLayout.addWidget(button);
+  
+  win.setStyleSheet(`
+    #myroot {
+      background-color: black;
+      height: '100%';
+    }
+    QPushButton {
+      background: #333333;
+    }
+    QPushButton:pressed {
+      background: cyan;
+      color: black;
+    }
+    * {
+      font-family: 'MxPlus IBM VGA 8x16';
+      font-size: 16px;
+    }
+  `);
+  win.show();
+});
+start();
diff --git a/src/term-ui/EscapeMenu.ts b/src/term-ui/EscapeMenu.ts
index 1600cf7..d5fd26d 100644
--- a/src/term-ui/EscapeMenu.ts
+++ b/src/term-ui/EscapeMenu.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { Game } from "@game";
 import { boxStyle, getTheme } from "@themes";
 import { panels } from "./UI.js";
 import blessed from 'neo-blessed';
-import { quit, restart } from "../index.js";
+import { quit, restart } from "../Clustering.js";
 
 // TODO convert all these popup-y things to be View based
 // make them be boxes that have a view
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..69e3c8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+// test
+//asdf
+
+//asdasd
+
+/changes?
+
+sdfasfd
+
+fdsd
+
+
+
+
+hddhfbgdfkljfkfdskljkdlkjdlfkjs
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 45fe9ad..adbe784 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 			"@tasks": ["./src/registries/Tasks"],
 			"@items": ["./src/registries/Items"],
 			"@world": ["./src/World"],
-			"@ui": ["./src/term-ui/UI"],
+			"@ui": ["./src/qt/index.js"],
 			"@game": ["./src/Game"]
 		},
     "noImplicitAny": true
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 51c1244..b84bb49 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -288,6 +288,13 @@
   version "8.3.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/uuid/-/uuid-8.3.0.tgz#215c231dff736d5ba92410e6d602050cce7e273f"
 
+"@types/watch@^1.0.2":
+  version "1.0.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/watch/-/watch-1.0.2.tgz#fdcc629c2a17f9f37dccce8cd1d70a9be89885b3"
+  integrity sha512-ylzbsiDt6U6yBIP3vhv2zC+mz1AIE1cVCqXW0rfeHWypUsKM8QOGbsNAHCtqANtqHoj7HVXkxDSpKN+LJamscw==
+  dependencies:
+    "@types/node" "*"
+
 "@types/ws@^7.4.0":
   version "7.4.6"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/@types/ws/-/ws-7.4.6.tgz#c4320845e43d45a7129bb32905e28781c71c1fff"
@@ -1165,6 +1172,13 @@ etag@^1.8.1:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/etag/-/etag-1.8.1.tgz#41ae2eeb65efa62268aebfea83ac7d79299b0887"
   integrity sha1-Qa4u62XvpiJorr/qg6x9eSmbCIc=
 
+exec-sh@^0.2.0:
+  version "0.2.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/exec-sh/-/exec-sh-0.2.2.tgz#2a5e7ffcbd7d0ba2755bdecb16e5a427dfbdec36"
+  integrity sha512-FIUCJz1RbuS0FKTdaAafAByGS0CPvU3R0MeHxgtl+djzCc//F8HakL8GzmVNZanasTbTAY/3DRFA0KpVqj/eAw==
+  dependencies:
+    merge "^1.2.0"
+
 faker@^5.5.3:
   version "5.5.3"
   resolved "https://registry.npmjs.org/faker/-/faker-5.5.3.tgz"
@@ -1915,6 +1929,11 @@ memory-stream@0:
   dependencies:
     readable-stream "~1.0.26-2"
 
+merge@^1.2.0:
+  version "1.2.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/merge/-/merge-1.2.1.tgz#38bebf80c3220a8a487b6fcfb3941bb11720c145"
+  integrity sha512-VjFo4P5Whtj4vsLzsYBu5ayHhoHJ0UqNm7ibvShmbmoz7tGi0vXaoJbGdB+GmDMLUdg8DpQXEIeVDAe8MaABvQ==
+
 mime-db@1.48.0:
   version "1.48.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/mime-db/-/mime-db-1.48.0.tgz#e35b31045dd7eada3aaad537ed88a33afbef2d1d"
@@ -2905,6 +2924,14 @@ walk-sync@^3.0.0:
     matcher-collection "^2.0.1"
     minimatch "^3.0.4"
 
+watch@^1.0.2:
+  version "1.0.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/watch/-/watch-1.0.2.tgz#340a717bde765726fa0aa07d721e0147a551df0c"
+  integrity sha1-NApxe952Vyb6CqB9ch4BR6VR3ww=
+  dependencies:
+    exec-sh "^0.2.0"
+    minimist "^1.2.0"
+
 webidl-conversions@^6.1.0:
   version "6.1.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/webidl-conversions/-/webidl-conversions-6.1.0.tgz#9111b4d7ea80acd40f5270d666621afa78b69514"