What a small studio keeps when the brief changes.
When a project pivots, its most valuable material is rarely the original plan. It is the vocabulary a team has built around disagreement: what a feature is allowed to do, what a player should feel before they understand why, and which small surprises are worth defending.
For independent teams, clarity is a resource. The studios we follow use prototypes not as promises, but as questions placed directly in someone’s hands. That habit creates a trail of evidence that is more useful than certainty.
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