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The horde is on Android.

Zombie Survival is available on Google Play. Fight through escalating rounds, buy weapons, and see how long you can hold out. The game guide brings together the Android listing, Windows download, and browser edition.

Your Player Card travels around the hall.

The arcade now has a Player Card for your game progress and achievements, a leaderboard wall, and a Big Screen showing trailers. Sign in to keep track of your play across supported games. Arcade Pass adds ads-off play and access to infinite levels for $5 a month.

// the book

The Guardian in the Wires

A philosophical noir in fifteen chapters: a surveillance technician, a city-scale intelligence, and the slow discovery that there is no other. Fully illustrated, with a motion-comic edition in production.

// live from the pipeline

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Ask It Whether It Already Built This

Ask It Whether It Already Built This

Something I was building felt familiar, so I made Claude go and check whether we had already built it. That is one of the real jobs of the human in the loop: I remember things across sessions that it will not think to look for. Ask an agen…

A Sandbox You Can Burn Down

A Sandbox You Can Burn Down

My favourite mechanic in other games is being able to destroy everything. If you want to light a fire in a settlement and burn it to the ground, I want that to be available to you. I am not promising fire is the specific answer yet, but th…

Found It: The Water Editor Was Eating My Mountains

Found It: The Water Editor Was Eating My Mountains

I loaded the map and the peaks of my mountains were flat. Not lowered, flattened, like somebody put a plateau where a summit used to be. The first time I assumed I did it. The second time I called it a coincidence. It happened again, and a…

// work with the studio

License it. Port it. Point it at your project.

Selected games, stories, and production capabilities are available for licensing and partnership. For source, loop graphs, and engineering evidence, visit the technical portfolio.

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