THE WORK
IN WORDS.
Development notes, studio thinking and the stories behind the things we make. Scroll when you're ready.
KEEPING
THE FIRE.
The Flame Log is where I keep the thinking that happens between builds: why a system exists, where an idea came from, what changed, and what the work is becoming.
Building a basketball universe
Why FieldGoal needed memory, institutions and a world that could outlive any single save.
Making simulation feel alive
How consequences, probability and world-state turn a correct simulation into a living one.
Why the world keeps talking
Why the final buzzer should start another layer of the experience rather than end it.
From code to court
The first production build, the moment the simulation ran, and when FieldGoal became tangible.
How I came to love basketball
The personal origin story behind the sport, the obsession with systems and eventually FieldGoal.
Why the studio comes before the product
Why Orange Flame is deliberately broader than its first game.
Before the flame: meet the founder
A look at the person behind the studio and the principle that sits underneath the work.