Break n Break: Games case study

36 games

all playable in the browser at breaknbreak.com, each with its own page

Scope fact

5 apps

Casino, Board Games, Sports, Arcade and Puzzles, each a lobby around its games

Architecture fact

0 accounts

no ads and no sign-up. Progress stays on the player’s device

Design decision

The problem

Short games are what people actually play in a spare minute, but most come wrapped in ads, accounts and energy timers.

Break n Break is one shared sky for many small games. Each is quick to learn, plays in the browser with no install, and groups into a handful of apps instead of dozens.

Key decisions

Constraint

Dozens of near-identical single-game apps risk store rejection and cost a domain each.

Options

Ship every game as its own app, or bundle them by kind.

Decision

Five apps: Casino, Board Games, Sports, Arcade and Puzzles, each a lobby around its games. Every game still keeps its own web page saying which app it is in.

Trade-off

Fewer store listings to be found by. One install gives a player a whole shelf of games.

Constraint

Every game had to reach the web, iPhone, iPad and Android without separate codebases.

Options

A game engine with native exports, or one HTML file per game inside thin native shells.

Decision

Each game is one canvas file. The app lobbies load them, and small Swift and Kotlin shells add haptics, sharing and store features.

Trade-off

Native features arrive through bridges, not an engine. Every platform gets the same build on the same day.

Constraint

A studio of one cannot hand-test 36 games on every change.

Options

Test by hand before releases, or let bots play first.

Decision

Bots play every game through at phone, landscape and desktop sizes on each build, and the casino games are simulated over millions of rounds to check the odds.

Trade-off

Time spent on test hooks instead of features. Fewer broken builds reach players.

The work

The breaknbreak.com home page with every game playable in the browser — **breaknbreak.com**One site for every game, each playable in the browser and each with its own page.

The Break Casino lobby — **Break Casino**Seven table games in one app, played with play chips only. No real money.

Break21, in Break Casino — **Break21 (Break Casino)**Blackjack with a coach, side bets and a tournament against three computer players.

BreakHold, in Break Casino — **BreakHold (Break Casino)**Poker against characters with tells, on a five-venue tour.

BreakSpin, in Break Casino — **BreakSpin (Break Casino)**A slot machine with bonus rounds and pick-a-crystal prizes.

BreakDrop, in Break Casino — **BreakDrop (Break Casino)**A drop game on ten shaped boards with bumpers, portals and gates.

BreakWheel, in Break Casino — **BreakWheel (Break Casino)**Roulette with a camera that follows the ball.

BreakDice, in Break Casino — **BreakDice (Break Casino)**A calm dice table with a tutorial for newcomers.

BreakBingo, in Break Casino — **BreakBingo (Break Casino)**Bingo with power-ups and a journey map.

The Break Board Games lobby — **Break Board Games**Chess, checkers, mahjong, solitaire and a fort duel in one app.

BreakKnight, in Break Board Games — **BreakKnight (Break Board Games)**Chess against the computer, with a blitz mode.

BreakJump, in Break Board Games — **BreakJump (Break Board Games)**Checkers you can play by sending a move link.

BreakTiles, in Break Board Games — **BreakTiles (Break Board Games)**Mahjong solitaire with shattering tiles and a 24-stage journey.

BreakPatience, in Break Board Games — **BreakPatience (Break Board Games)**Solitaire with a twist.

BreakFriend, in Break Board Games — **BreakFriend (Break Board Games)**A fort duel you play over texts. Build, fire one shot and send the link.

The Break Sports lobby — **Break Sports**Nine arcade sports in one app, with a career that counts every game.

BreakPuck, in Break Sports — **BreakPuck (Break Sports)**Arcade hockey with big hits.

BreakHoops, in Break Sports — **BreakHoops (Break Sports)**Arcade basketball, plus a shootout and a 3-point contest.

BreakBat, in Break Sports — **BreakBat (Break Sports)**Arcade baseball where long hits break the scoreboard.

BreakBlitz, in Break Sports — **BreakBlitz (Break Sports)**Arcade football with big tackles.

BreakKick, in Break Sports — **BreakKick (Break Sports)**Arcade soccer with fireball shots.

BreakBowl, in Break Sports — **BreakBowl (Break Sports)**Bowling with power-ups and trick shots.

BreakPickle, in Break Sports — **BreakPickle (Break Sports)**Pickleball rallies and a daily challenge.

BreakServe, in Break Sports — **BreakServe (Break Sports)**Tennis with cannonball serves, rivals and tours.

BreakPutt, in Break Sports — **BreakPutt (Break Sports)**Mini golf with a daily hole.

The Break Arcade lobby — **Break Arcade**Nine action games in one app, Breakwing among them.

Breakwing, in Break Arcade: a paper-plane jet over floating islands — **Breakwing (Break Arcade)**A one-tap jet game where every level turns a new way and every lap ends with a boss.

BreakSlice, in Break Arcade — **BreakSlice (Break Arcade)**Slice what flies up, and chain combos.

BreakCross, in Break Arcade — **BreakCross (Break Arcade)**Hop across floating lanes without falling.

BreakRun, in Break Arcade — **BreakRun (Break Arcade)**A side-scrolling platformer with bosses.

BreakFlip, in Break Arcade — **BreakFlip (Break Arcade)**Pinball with a boss table.

BreakBeat, in Break Arcade — **BreakBeat (Break Arcade)**A rhythm game: tap, hold and slide to twelve original songs.

BreakRacer, in Break Arcade — **BreakRacer (Break Arcade)**A combat racer on floating tracks.

BreakRobots, in Break Arcade — **BreakRobots (Break Arcade)**A maze shooter where robots break into blocks. No gore.

Breaktower, in Break Arcade — **Breaktower (Break Arcade)**A mini strategy game: build towers and push back the waves.

The Break Puzzles lobby — **Break Puzzles**Six puzzle games in one app.

BreakWord, in Break Puzzles — **BreakWord (Break Puzzles)**A daily word game where letter stones shatter.

BreakBlocks, in Break Puzzles — **BreakBlocks (Break Puzzles)**Falling blocks with bombs, drills and rivals.

BreakGems, in Break Puzzles — **BreakGems (Break Puzzles)**Match-3 with blasts and a 60-level map.

BreakMines, in Break Puzzles — **BreakMines (Break Puzzles)**Mine-sweeping on 16 shaped boards.

BreakHerd, in Break Puzzles — **BreakHerd (Break Puzzles)**Guide a crowd to safety across 32 levels.

BreakPuzz, in Break Puzzles — **BreakPuzz (Break Puzzles)**Place a few gusts of wind and land the paper jet. One puzzle a day.

How it was built

01DiscoverCalls and walk-throughs with the people who would use it
02CompileTranscripts, files and constraints in one requirements brief
03SpecifyA detailed, sourced spec from Perplexity, reviewed and locked
04BuildDesigned and built with the latest AI models, in the production stack
05TestUser testing on every preview, with real users on real tasks
06IterateFindings turned into the next round of changes, worst problems first
07ShipTests, security review and release, then back to testing and iterating↻ Back to Test
↻ Test and iterate again

How I work, step by step →

Where AI was used

Built with coding agents across the art, the music, the game systems and the native shells. Agents also run the bot play-throughs on every build.

What’s next

App Store and Google Play release of the five apps, then keep the games people play and retire the rest.