The Reality Show

One Building, 36 Lives

Thirty-six players share one apartment building. Nobody thrives alone — that's the point. The drama isn't scripted; the systems make it inevitable.

What's Under the Hood

111 source files, 71,906 lines — my largest game codebase. 38 server systems: DramaEngine, ElectionSystem, StorylineEngine, RelationshipTracker, JobSystem, EconomyManager, AntiToxicity. A 13-app in-game smartphone OS: Elections, News, Messages, Shop, Map. Four job mini-games. A dedicated test place with UI audit reports.

The Honest Lesson

Social sims are systems-of-systems. Every system feeds another, so nothing ships alone. And the phone OS taught me more about UI architecture than any web app I've built.