Why I Built a Game With No GUI
The API is the game. The UI constraints are gone. Build what you want. Automate what you need. Play how you choose.
Technical notes, project documentation, and lessons learned across software, DIY, writing, and more.
The API is the game. The UI constraints are gone. Build what you want. Automate what you need. Play how you choose.
Every mobile game is hiding its secrets in a file you already have. Here's how I went from 'I wonder how this works' to extracting thousands of files of game data — using free tools and an afternoon.
I downloaded an APK, cracked open its Unity asset bundles, extracted 2,880 compiled Lua files, and built a team optimizer that actually knows the math. Here's how.