AI Coding Agents on a Live Game: Faster, Inside Guardrails
Claude Code and Codex on a live game: one shared rule file, scoped skills, hooks and CI that check, and explicit approval before anything touches production.
Our Store Listing Is Built Like the Game
Localized store screenshots, iOS 27 header art and a preview video rendered from real captures by in-house tools, plus the bug that hid four languages.
Making Our Social Videos in Code with Remotion
How we build TikTok, Reels and Shorts promos as React code with Remotion: real gameplay, the real map, cuts on the beat, and AI kept to three jobs.
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.
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.