Simulation & Interactive Systems

Why I kept Sunday Lab and NBA Lab private, unified their forecasting vocabulary, and published the boundary instead of pretending two local prototypes were live products.

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.

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.

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.

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.