Games, Simulation & Interactive Systems

Architecture and devlogs from real games (Abuela, Hippi Kingdom) and from agentic simulations of business processes and customer experience — interactive systems where the design problem is what the system does, not just what it shows.

Mar 5, 2026 — 6 min — Games & Sim

Building Abuela's Core Loop Across Unity and Web Surfaces

How Abuela's Unity gameplay loop and supporting web surfaces can share progression state, event contracts, reward rules, and iteration hooks without duplicating game logic.

Outcome: Promoted Abuela from a note to an essay by defining a loop architecture that keeps Unity runtime state, web companion flows, reward rules, and content iteration aligned.

unity next.js game loop systems architecture integration

Mar 1, 2026 — 6 min — Games & Sim

Designing the Hippi Kingdom Economy as a Systems Problem

A game economy design essay for Hippi Kingdom covering currency loops, sinks and sources, telemetry, a rejected progression model, and the balancing mistake that made hoarding look like engagement.

Outcome: Created an economy balancing framework that separates progression health from currency hoarding, making pacing, reward pressure, and retention tradeoffs easier to test.

game dev economy design systems telemetry unity