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An iPad on a stand, a guitar in both hands, and a loud room. Notes on voice commands, forgiving fuzzy matching, a wave-to-turn camera gesture, and why I deleted my own sync conflict rules five hours after writing them.
Read moreAn August on the Loadout Advance iOS app: a Dynamic Island that drew a grey square for reasons that had nothing to do with the image, a project file that quietly broke TestFlight, and a search built for thumbs instead of databases.
Read moreRoadie Wars 5 is on the App Store. The week after launch turned up a class of bug you can't find before you ship: the kind where nothing crashes, nothing logs, and the game just quietly does something else.
Read moreApp Store metadata, age ratings, screenshots, pricing, even this blog post — the release of Roadie Wars 5 was driven through the App Store Connect API by an AI copilot.
Read moreRoadie Wars 5 tells its story in comic panels between stages — authored in a homemade web editor that runs on localhost and deploys to the Simulator with one button.
Read more100 stages, five venues, boss nights and breathers — all of it lives in levels.json, and a headless robot plays every stage to prove they're beatable.
Read moreEvery character in Roadie Wars 5 is drawn by Gemini — kept on-model by a pipeline that treats prompts like a legal document and chroma-keys like it's 1998.
Read moreRoadie Wars 5 : Stage Climb is the first Roadie Wars game you can actually buy. That's not a mistake — it's the joke, and it's also a design story.
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