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Case Studies

Architecture, trade-offs, and lessons learned.

Shipping One Game Across Four Platforms

CRACKPOINT delivers to web, Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit from a single codebase. Three orthogonal abstraction layers (game logic, storage, platform lifecycle) compose independently to define each build target.

TypeScript React Python FastAPI Devvit

Case Study · Game Design

Difficulty as Data

CRACKPOINT's time pressure system eliminates special cases by treating every difficulty vector as a factor in an equation. Three modes, four zones, five modifiers, a sigmoid, and a log-normal distribution, all independent, all composable.

TypeScript Game Design Systems Design Data-Driven

Case Study · Algorithms

Generating Puzzles Worth Playing

AFTERTOUCH uses sculpted erosion, Hamiltonian paths, and quality gates to produce procedural puzzles that are not just solvable but interesting. Most generated topologies are discarded. That is the point.

TypeScript Vitest Procedural Generation Algorithms

Case Study · Tooling

Code Review by Consensus

Tribunal orchestrates multi-model AI code review through a three-tier escalation cascade with cross-provider consensus. It renders verdicts, not comments.

GitHub Actions AI TypeScript Code Review

Case Study · Infrastructure

Infrastructure That Tests Itself

LATHE generates both Terraform code and the tests that verify it from a single source of truth. Four genuine gaps in Terraform's testing ecosystem surfaced during consumer rollouts, each resolved in the generator.

Terraform Zod CLI Infrastructure