• 17 Aug 2026

  The bug that was never an iPad bug

  Thought bubbles kept vanishing on the iPad. The screen size had nothing to do with it.

• 17 Aug 2026

  The houses that were supposed to be rocks

  Two little stone cottages had been sitting in the sea for weeks. Nobody put them there.

• 16 Aug 2026

  The icons that only existed on my Mac

  Six buttons rendered perfectly in every screenshot and were blank on the phone. The one that survived explained why.

• 16 Aug 2026

  The crop nobody could cook

  Scallops looked right and read right. The economy audit found what playtesting would not have.

• 16 Aug 2026

  The splash screen that could never work

  Every idea we had for the launch screen was impossible. So we stopped using it.

• 15 Aug 2026

  Ask for a sheaf, not a plant

  Fifty-odd item icons, generated. The trick was describing the harvest, not the crop.

• 15 Aug 2026

  The day touch stopped working

  A bug that only existed on the phone, and the four wrong answers before the right one.

• 15 Aug 2026

  Less reading, more pictures

  The game played like a settings app wearing a farm. So we took the words out.