Highledge Studio.

Shichijin grew out of a long fascination with the samurai — and with bushidō, their code of honor. Watching The Last Samurai crystallized the idea: a real duel isn't won by chance, but by discipline, patience, and reading your opponent clearly. I wanted a puzzle that felt the same — no dice, no timers, no noise — where every board hides exactly one honorable answer, and finding it is a quiet test of focus. The name 七陣 means "seven formations": the battle arrays a warrior learns to read at a glance.

Kaelra began almost by accident — a small experiment to see whether a strategy game could be stripped all the way down to its essence and still feel deep. There was no grand plan, not even a name; "Kaelra" itself was dreamed up by an AI. But the prototype kept surprising me: a handful of simple rules — claim ground, strike where you're strongest, keep your territory connected — opened into something you can learn in a minute and lose an afternoon to. The experiment quietly became the game.

Draviss comes from two different loves: the deep, ship-by-ship strategy of the board game Eclipse, and the pure reflex-joy of the classic arcade shoot-'em-ups. I wanted that depth without the dice — so, like Shichijin, Draviss is fully deterministic: everyone faces the exact same 100 waves, and the only thing that changes the outcome is how you design your fleet before the fight. Underneath it runs a simple fantasy: legends returning to the battlefield, one more time, to settle who was truly the best.

The spark came from the film Inception — moving through layers of the mind — which became a game about moving through layers of meaning, one association at a time. The "six" is the famous six degrees of separation: measured across thousands of words, almost any word sits about six steps from any other. That it also hides inside the word "semantic" was too good to pass up — six + semantic → Sixmantic.

Fang & Crown goes back to the old "Tiger and the Princess" logic riddles I tried to crack as a ten-year-old — the kind where some guardians always lie and others always tell the truth, and you reason your way to the right door. I wanted to bottle that exact feeling: seven gateways, one law binding them all, and the quiet click when the lies finally give the truth away.