{
  "title": "We built the game in six days. The store review took fifteen.",
  "url": "https://cybiqon.in/lab/shipped-the-game-missed-the-deadline",
  "author": "Prajjwal Pathak",
  "published": "2026-10-04",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "citation": "Prajjwal Pathak, “We built the game in six days. The store review took fifteen.”, Cybiqon Lab, 2026-10-04. https://cybiqon.in/lab/shipped-the-game-missed-the-deadline",
  "tables": [
    {
      "id": "what-actually-shipped",
      "section": "What actually shipped",
      "csv": "https://cybiqon.in/data/lab/shipped-the-game-missed-the-deadline/what-actually-shipped.csv",
      "columns": [
        "",
        "13 September",
        "19 September"
      ],
      "rows": [
        [
          "Windows",
          "25",
          "169"
        ],
        [
          "Collections",
          "5",
          "18"
        ],
        [
          "Ways to play",
          "1",
          "5"
        ],
        [
          "Artisan scenes",
          "0",
          "72"
        ],
        [
          "Music",
          "a synthesised drone",
          "4 scores"
        ],
        [
          "States and union territories on the map",
          "0",
          "36"
        ],
        [
          "Journeys (yatras)",
          "0",
          "7"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "six-days",
      "section": "Six days",
      "csv": "https://cybiqon.in/data/lab/shipped-the-game-missed-the-deadline/six-days.csv",
      "columns": [
        "Day",
        "What happened"
      ],
      "rows": [
        [
          "13 Sep",
          "The old mechanic is deleted — engine, painters, gallery, editor, 73 figures. The map of India lands and every state needs art, so the count goes 25 → 139 in a day. A title screen replaces the menu."
        ],
        [
          "14 Sep",
          "Four ways to play, in the owner's order. Windows are cut ahead of time because cutting 139 at launch took about 12 seconds. The billing library is swapped for RevenueCat. Four generated scores replace the drone. Artisan is invented."
        ],
        [
          "15 Sep",
          "Artisan ships with 24 scenes. A three-phase polish pass — trust, then feel and flow, then comfort — finds most of the bugs in this post."
        ],
        [
          "17 Sep",
          "Night windows, settings inside a window, the first paid window pack, and the rename: Curvved becomes ChitraYatra. The backdrops start moving."
        ],
        [
          "18 Sep",
          "A new upload key, tablet screenshots, build 33 to internal testing, build 34 to production review. Then offerings, Patron, yatras and the almanac."
        ],
        [
          "19 Sep",
          "Two agent worktrees in parallel: Monsoon (a window pack) and Stories (eight traditions drawn by code). Then Line mode, five more scene packs, and build 37. 3,347 tests pass."
        ]
      ]
    }
  ]
}