How we built Skip Stone, a one-thumb stone-skipping game with an aim preview that doesn’t lie: what a QA pass changed, and the part of the design we gave up to make the preview exact.
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How we built Night Shift Floor Plan, a drafting puzzle about a building that gets redrawn every night: 23 one-line rooms, bots that searched the numbers, and a cold read by a QA agent that would not count a room as checked until someone had actually played it.
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How we built Fine Print, a game where you write the signs for a small, odd town: every Daily searched in full (59,049 paths per date, 1157 dates), 24 one-line rule cards, and a cold read by a QA agent that caught two problems every bot had passed.
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How we built Crossed Wires, a puzzle game where every cartridge is wired wrong: four free presses that are proven to reveal any of 71 wirings, rooms built by simulating the wiring first, bots that fail the build, and a hidden rule that 88% of Double step rooms needed and every bot had passed.
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How we built Double or Quits, a push-or-bank card game about a building full of hazards: a visible, seeded deck with an exact bust percentage, bots that proved the odds reward good play (2.23x a random bot), and the honest parts, including an item choice that barely matters and a 12 px text floor that took three QA rounds.
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How we built Night Bloom in about an hour: a haunted houseplant you save by drawing strokes across it, two meters that punish both hesitation and haste, a simulation that bots played hundreds of times before it had a face, and art and sound drawn and synthesised in code.
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How we built Clawback in about three hours: a claw machine where you slide the prize floor so the claw misses, two meters that pull against each other, a simulation that bots could play before any art existed, and everything drawn and synthesised in code.
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How we built Line Inspector: a rulebook tested by bots before any art, toys drawn in code, colour-blind patterns, a reactive soundtrack and the bugs a code read found.
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How we built Orbit Hop, a one-tap space game: seeded levels checked by a bot, art and music made entirely in code, and the phone bug no test could see.
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