Start with our story
Building to our own brief
The client years, the product years, and the engineering habits that connect them.
Bhaskar Paratey3 minute readThe Partech journal
Notes from a
life of making things.
For more than twenty years, we built software and hardware for other companies. For the last decade, we’ve also been making our own. These are the ideas, habits and people that connect the work.
Bhaskar Paratey3 minute readA box closed, and a beam followed
Two of our newest games began long before they were games, with a packing problem at university and childhood afternoons spent making rainbows.
A price is part of the product
Free tools, paid software and the practical value of making the terms clear before somebody starts.
The promise in a small sentence
The words around a product should help you decide whether it belongs in your day.
A game you can settle into
Sunroom brings familiar games together through clear type, comfortable space and an unhurried invitation to play.
The work that keeps a product alive
Release day creates an obligation. Operations and finance help us understand whether we can keep meeting it.
The person after the handover
A product continues into somebody else’s day. Good handovers help that person understand what has changed and what to do next.
A small team with a long memory
A century of combined leadership experience is useful when it helps a team notice more, listen better and make room for new judgement.
Software has to live somewhere
What building hardware and software together teaches you about the person at the other end.
Four perspectives, one studio
The people behind the notes.
Engineering, customers, people and stewardship. Different responsibilities, with a shared interest in making useful things.
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