Designing combat that feels good: a postmortem of Nightfall: Horizon
Six iterations, three prototypes, and the lesson that finally made our combat click.
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Behind-the-scenes stories, postmortems, and deep-dives from our team.
Porting from Unity to Unreal: what we learned the hard way
A technical breakdown of the gotchas we hit moving a live mobile title across engines.
Read articleAdaptive AI opponents in Tactica AI: making the machine feel human
Why we moved from behavior trees to reinforcement learning — and what we'd do differently.
Read articleHow we scaled Rally Rush Arena to 12M downloads
The UA strategy, ASO tweaks, and live-ops rhythm that fueled two years of growth.
Read articleDesigning for Meta Quest 3: five lessons from Stellar Drift
Practical takeaways on comfort, locomotion, and UX for standalone VR.
Read articleBuilding a studio culture that outlasts any one game
How we think about hiring, retention, and the long game in a 300-person team.
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