Field Notes
Notes from the field.
Design lessons, build notes, and observations from actual Brand New Colors games. Written when a project teaches us something worth keeping—so the shelf grows at the speed of the work, and never faster.
Field Note 01
A Furniture Shop Is Already a Strategy Game
Benches, deposits, lumber lead times, and a crew with opinions: how HTX Made’s systems came pre-installed, and what the design work actually was.
Field Note 02
What a Cold Reader Needs
The three questions every landing page must answer without scrolling, and why the best sentence on the page moved down one beat.
On the Bench
Coming when the work earns them
Planned notes with real material behind them: what we leave out of a game on purpose, a game as organizational memory, and forty-two nights of turning a seasonal business into a calendar you can lose to the weather.
Curious what your world would teach us?
Every game on the shelf started as somebody’s specific idea.