Real-World Buildings Without Breaking the Bank
How we replaced expensive API calls and a 40GB database with 4.6GB of compressed files on object storage — serving millions of real-world places for pennies.
RETROPOLIS / DEVLOG
BEHIND THE STREETS.
Design decisions, development notes and stories from the studio. Articles are written in English.
Kill Your Darlings: What Analytics Taught Us About Akiko
How a fire-and-forget analytics setup revealed that one of our most elaborate features was being ignored — and what we did about it.
Discord as a Dev Tool, Not Just a Chat Room
How we turned our Discord server into a feedback loop, QA pipeline, and automated ops dashboard — with a bot called Milo at the center of it.
What an Early Access Beta Actually Teaches You
Running a closed beta isn't about finding bugs. It's about discovering what you got wrong before it's too late to fix it.
Every Mechanic Tells a Story
How we designed Retropolis so that every game system is both a mechanic and a piece of the world — and why that interconnection is what makes the game feel coherent.
Introducing the Retropolis Devlog
Welcome to the Retropolis development blog. We're building a cyberpunk location-based strategy game, and this is where we'll share the technical journey.