Flagship

Echoes of the missing cat

Creator — game direction, Godot implementation, Android delivery, release hygiene, and agent workflow design

Pitch

Echoes of the missing cat is a landscape-only, top-down 2D Android adventure built in Godot 4. The shipped game has touch controls, 13 maps, simple puzzles, light backtracking, English and Brazilian Portuguese text, and a final cat reunion shaped by family playtesting.

Hardest problem

The real challenge was not prompting an agent to make a game. It was creating enough structure for many AI-assisted sessions to stay aligned: Docker-first tooling, small tickets, map and flag validation, ownership boundaries, and release checks that agents could not accidentally bypass.

Outcomes

• Published on Google Play after turning a playable prototype into a store-ready Android release.
• Turned broad prompts into 247 scoped tickets with dependencies, acceptance criteria, files to touch, and validation expectations.
• Added guardrails for map exits, return-side continuity, spawn cells, topology uniqueness, flags, docs, assets, logging, ownership, and Android release artifacts.
• Split monolithic gameplay code into smaller systems for input, movement, interactions, abilities, flute behavior, map data, and biome-owned content so parallel agents had fewer collision points.

The Medium write-up captures the biggest lesson from the project: agents move fastest when the project has boring structure around them. Tickets, lint rules, Docker wrappers, validation scripts, and release automation mattered more than clever one-off prompts.