Journal

The story behind 0n1 Studios — what I’m building, why, and how. Part devlog, part how-to. No tracking and no newsletter wall; just an RSS feed if you want to follow along.

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  July 12, 2026

  Name the game, before the AI names it for you

  An AI will build a game the moment you ask — the question is whose game. Before the core loop, before the GDD, there's one word that decides everything downstream: the type. Here's why naming the genre first is the cheapest, highest-leverage decision you can make — and a 3D atlas of the types to steal from.

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  July 10, 2026

  Meet the team (it's mostly software)

  A game studio usually shows you its games. The other half of what gets built here is the toolchain that builds them — twelve studio-made AI tools that generate the art, post the dailies, run the releases and remember the lessons. The new Workshop page is that team made visible — commit activity and all, honestly, and without a single thing to sell you.

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  July 10, 2026

  From Letterbox to LineBy

  I renamed my quote puzzle — not because the old name was wrong, but because it was crowded. "Letterbox" is a film site, a mail slot, an aspect ratio, and a hiking hobby before it's ever my game, and I got tired of searching for my own app and finding everyone else. Meet LineBy — same game, same one-time purchase, a name you can actually find.

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  June 27, 2026

  The only constant is change

  Two games changed shape this month. LineBy went freemium with a free daily puzzle, and a one-time library that now grows every day. Worldwright is expanding past the phone with a Unity rebuild that adds desktop and Android while staying on iOS. Why I moved both, and the render-free core that made the rewrite cheap.

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  June 18, 2026

  If you build it, they will come they won't

  Building the game is the fun part. Getting one stranger to notice it is the hard part nobody warns you about. No formula — just table stakes: be findable, show up, and beg your friends. Notes from the cornfield.

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  June 16, 2026

  Why you need a gdd.md (seriously, you do)

  An idea isn't a game — it's a mood. A game begins the moment you write the mechanics down. Here's why every repo I touch has a plain gdd.md, and why it matters twice as much when an AI is building with you.

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  June 15, 2026

  Building 0n1 in public

  I make small iOS games on my own. This is where I write down how it's going, how bits of it work, and the things I got wrong along the way.

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