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.
Jun 30, 2026 — 7 min — Games & Sim
The archive retrospective made the Games & Sim gap visible: three public proof pieces in a 96-post archive. The fix is not a better tagline; it is an artifact-first devlog cadence.
Outcome: Reader can audit a public pillar claim against archive evidence, then choose a proof cadence or retire the claim.
Jun 29, 2026 — 10 min — Games & Sim
Why plausible synthetic customer behavior can turn an onboarding simulation into false evidence unless every journey claim has a trace and a real-world validation gate.
Outcome: Reader can design an agent-driven CX simulation as a hypothesis generator, with validation gates that keep synthetic behavior from being mistaken for customer evidence.
Mar 5, 2026 — 6 min — Games & Sim
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.
Mar 1, 2026 — 6 min — Games & Sim
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.