Bend #1: What is a Toby game?
After two games built from other people's ideas, I asked what a game of my own would look like. The answer was solitaire Scrabble on a Klein bottle.
Fuse #1: Did I steal it?
I got a text pitching a game: a chain of words, each starting where the last one ended. How it became Fuse, a daily race against a fixed deck and a burning clock.
Palette #1: Well, could I?
My mom asked if I could invent a game like Wordle, but with numbers or colors. How Palette became a trivia game hiding behind a color palette, and the constraints I built it within.