— Volume One —

The Library

Two cabinets, illuminated. The works of the studio, set down in order: games on the first hand, lighter cartridges on the second.

GamesTwo volumes

An illuminated plate titled Tideward: a stone lighthouse on a windswept cliff at dusk, a small figure climbing the path toward it, the sea below in golden light. Margins decorated with kelp, fish, a compass rose, and a sea-serpent capital T.
Volume the First Alpha · February ad mmxxvii

Tideward

An idle almanac for every Apple device. Patient, deeply systemized.

A privacy-first idle role-playing game, native to every Apple device. Twenty-three skills, twenty-four hours of offline progression, twin combat and gathering loops, and a small crafted world to explore at your own pace. Saves live only in the player's own iCloud.

Status
Alpha · TestFlight open
Launch
February A.D. mmxxvii
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Mac · Apple TV · Vision Pro · Apple Watch
Engine
Pure SwiftUI · CloudKit sync
Price
Free download · $9.99 unlock · no subscription, no ads
Privacy
No analytics, no ads, no third-party SDKs
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A heavy oxblood-leather grimoire on a dark table, sealed with a tarnished brass clasp, lit by a single candle. The cover bears an unreadable gold sigil.
Volume the Second Sealed · in concept

— sealed —

A second volume, not yet ready to be read.

A second game is in early design. There are notebooks, a folder of references, and a working title we'd rather not commit to in print. The shape is forming — patient, systemized, and unmistakably ours. We will say more when there is more worth saying.

Hear it first →

Apps & lighter worksOne leaflet

An illuminated cartouche titled Peanut Gallery: three hooded medieval figures on a stone bench, gawking and gesturing at something off-page, surrounded by a marginalia border of peanuts, vines, and theatre masks.
A Leaflet Live

Peanut Gallery

Not a game. Still ours.

A small Chrome extension at peanutgallery.live, built between the bigger projects — AI persona reactions to whatever you are watching. Open-source under MIT, BYOK by default, no ads, no tracking cookies. A leaflet, not a cabinet — and one with its own privacy policy and terms, since the data flows are different from anything else the studio runs.

Open the leaflet →
— A standing invitation —

Hear of new volumes first.

Subscribers to the Assembly Line are told before the rest of the world. Two emails a week — design notes from the studio, and a curated digest from the wider field.

Past issues are bound at blog.manugames.com.