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Website foundation
The initial company website was recorded. This establishes website work, not the date the company or its games began.
Before the dragons, there were cards.NOTES FROM THE WORKBENCH
The story over time.
A trail of things built, things repaired, and a few parts we confidently put down somewhere.
Website records and documented work checkpoints are labeled separately. Original publication dates stay with each article. Earlier work without a verified date is grouped as an undated retrospective. Images are current reference artwork or recorded development captures; they are not date evidence.
Dated records we can verify.
Repository records establish website changes. The first site record does not establish when the company or its games began. Source notes identify the separately documented development checks.
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Thumb Command joins the website
The world-defense presentation and its city artwork were added to the site.
Introducing Thumb Command: Save Planet Earth
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A broader studio portfolio
The portfolio and product pages were rebuilt around card games and original worlds.
The 4OH Card Table Adds Solitaire and WarBobby and the BreadstoneHeartStack Unicorn Blast Joins the Workbench
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Dragons, towns, and useful apps
The GildenSpire website experience and the September portfolio additions document a growing lineup. These are website records, not app launch dates.
Introducing GildenSpire: Flight or FightWelcome to BooYang CityFrom Search to Opportunity: Building Whomly
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BooYang feeding and growth checkpoints
The source notes and preserved article distinguish a September 11 feeding repair from the September 12 development build and its scoped checks.
BooYang City: a town that grows with playDocumented development checkpoint
Small repairs, better play
The September 11–12 source notes record feeding, dragon movement and scoped app-behavior checks, with remaining limits kept in the articles.
BooYang City: a town that grows with playGildenSpire: a dragon built to moveSmall fixes that change the feel
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The shared workbench opens
The journal and product reading routes were published together, alongside repairs to the fixed Palace browser demo. The batch publication does not date every underlying task.
The rematch should not require technical support.Fewer buttons. More “one more go.”
Website artwork milestone
Sling Bling gets its new look
New artwork and the October 20 development note reached the website. The game overhaul remained in development.
Gravity is getting a more expensive-looking wardrobe.Work with a documented date.
5 existing articles have source-backed dates for the work described. Their publication dates are shown separately.
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BooYang City: a town that grows with play
Animal friends, pastry inventions, go-karts, and new places to explore are taking shape in the development build.
Published
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GildenSpire: a dragon built to move
An original animated dragon, richer terrain, and a completed native campaign check move the world forward.
Published
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Small fixes that change the feel
Battle speed, sleep refreshes, saved progress, and creative tools received focused attention in the latest audit.
Published
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Gravity is getting a more expensive-looking wardrobe.
Sling Nouveau is becoming Sling Bling. New artwork, twenty world paintings, and an ambitious campaign are on the workbench.
Published
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Press Ahead: a little head start.
A new expedition-inspired match-three game, with a name we could not possibly leave alone.
Published
Undated retrospectives.
44 articles describe work whose separate calendar date is not recorded. These groups follow the subject of the story; they do not invent a historical date.
Studio roots and craft
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
Before the dragons, there were cards.
Before there were dragons to steer, cities to build, or unicorns requiring an unreasonable amount of creative attention, there were cards.
Published
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
The card table got a little out of hand.
A sensible studio might add another card game and call it a productive afternoon.
Published
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
A U has entered the chat.
A brief developer detour into Canadian English, where “colour” brings an extra letter and “centre” rearranges the furniture.
Published
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
The 4OH Card Table Adds Solitaire and War
Two familiar card games join Palace, Hearts, Spades, and Euchre in the Four of Hearts lineup.
Published
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
AI in the workshop—and in useful products
How AI-assisted development and carefully chosen product capabilities fit our old-school values.
Published
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
Fewer buttons. More “one more go.”
The workbench has a recurring request: give the enjoyable part more room.
Published
At the card table
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Palace 0.1.9 Enters Founder Review
The flagship card-table build advances through hands-on founder testing.
Published
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
The rematch should not require technical support.
The website table has a deliberately simple brief: one fixed deal, as many attempts as you like.
Published
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Five cards. Plenty of opinions.
Euchre already provides enough uncertainty through the cards. The interface does not need to contribute.
Published
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
Friendship, with penalty points.
Hearts has a lovely ability to make an innocent-looking card feel like a personal statement.
Published
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Confidence is not a bidding strategy. Apparently.
Spades deserves a table that respects the partnership.
Published
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One more deal. Entirely your own idea.
Solitaire should feel pleasantly inevitable: see the move, move the card, enjoy the little moment when everything starts to line up.
Published
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Let the cards cause the trouble.
War does not need a complicated introduction. It needs a dependable entrance, a clear table, and a satisfying flip.
Published
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A table with room to think.
Gin Rummy is a two-player game. The interface should leave room for the decisions.
Published
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
A little gold trim. The same difficult discard.
Gin Rummy has a new glossy 4OH calling card. Better tailoring does not guarantee better decisions.
Published
Original worlds and creative play
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
Bobby and the Breadstone
Bread-powered towers, branching paths, cheerful enemies, and one heroic dinosaur define Bobby’s direction.
Published
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
Evil Doom Boy: Two Heroes, One Fight
Evil Doom Boy is one action-adventure game with Evil Doom Boy as the default hero and Evil Doom Girl as the alternate hero.
Published
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
HeartStack Unicorn Blast Joins the Workbench
A first look at colourful combos, crystal cages, boosters, and unicorn rescue.
Published
Undated retrospective · work date not recorded
Inside Princess Land Adventures
Character style, castle rooms, cooking, decorating, and mini-games begin forming one creative game.
Published
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Building Unicorn Land Adventures
Unicorn creation, magical habitats, decorating, discovery, and mini-games define a distinct creative game.
Published
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Welcome to BooYang City
A connected city gives us room for a zoo, bakery, boutique, school, hospital, and almost anything fun that might open next.
Published
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Introducing GildenSpire: Flight or Fight
Raise a dragon, take direct control in the sky, and discover what happens when flying becomes fighting.
Published
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Building a Town That Refuses to Look Normal
Funky Town treats buildings as canvases and progression as a chance to make every neighborhood more expressive.
Published
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Introducing Thumb Command: Save Planet Earth
Meet Blueguard and the worldwide arcade-defense campaign taking shape at Four of Hearts Interactive.
Published
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Building Dragons That Actually Feel Different
GildenSpire dragons are being designed as different creatures—not one model wearing different colors.
Published
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Why Flying Has to Be Fun
The journey should be gameplay: direct flight, enormous terrain, curiosity, and combat that rewards control.
Published
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Modern art has been informed about gravity.
Sling Nouveau begins with a pleasingly unreasonable idea: what if a sculptural playground also invited you to knock things down?
Published
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A dragon is not a chore-management app.
A dragon should make you want to take off.
Published
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Your thumb has declined additional paperwork.
Thumb Command has a very clear staffing arrangement: one thumb, quite a lot of responsibility.
Published
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A dinosaur needs room to make an entrance.
Bobby’s world should feel lively before the first enemy arrives.
Published
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We would like the towers to be a little less normal.
The blade tower has set an inconveniently entertaining standard.
Published
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A city, not a directory of buttons.
BooYang City should invite you to look around and choose somewhere to go.
Published
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The planning department has rejected beige.
Funky Town needs room to be itself.
Published
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Shorter name. Unreasonably enthusiastic explosions.
The name going forward is Unicorn Blast.
Published
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The shoes have been asked to remain on the feet.
A beautiful dress-up game depends on details that cannot be negotiated away: fit, scale, layering, and characters who feel alive.
Published
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We have not established a maximum number of flowers.
Unicorn Land Adventures has its own creative brief: unicorns to personalize, habitats to shape, details to discover, and room to make something wonderfully yours.
Published
Useful apps
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People Lens Is Becoming Whomly
The working name is retiring. Whomly better fits the journey from discovery to context to possible opportunity.
Published
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Why We’re Building Sleep Amigo
The harder sleep problem is not collecting another number. It is understanding what may matter tonight.
Published
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Making Sleep Data Feel Human
Sleep Readiness, Tonight’s Game Plan, Ask Amigo, Wind Down, and a small celestial companion give the numbers some warmth.
Published
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From Search to Opportunity: Building Whomly
How a search-first interface can turn public professional research into useful context and a thoughtful next step.
Published
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Less spreadsheet. More bedside manner.
The Amigo is the point.
Published
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Your next counteroffer deserves better than “Um.”
SOVINTO is built around an understandable ambition: help people prepare for conversations that matter.
Published
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Twenty open tabs is not a research strategy.
Whomly’s direction is to turn scattered public professional information into useful context.
Published
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A bedtime notification should know the way home.
A notification-to-Home navigation fix is in development testing. Fewer detours at the end of the day.
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