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Who Writes the Hint?
Who Writes the Hint?

For the last few weeks I've been running an experiment on a puzzle game I'm building. The question is simple. Should an AI model write game hints, or should I keep the hint sentences I wrote by hand?

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Steph PawlowskiOctober 7, 2026AI, game, LLM
Permanent Decisions
Permanent Decisions

Post 6 of 6 about building Rainbow Tile Slide. The last three weeks of development sorted into two piles. Things I could change later, and things I could not.

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Steph PawlowskiSeptember 9, 2026AI, rainbow tile slide, Rainbow Series, XCode, iOS
The Piñata That Would Not Stay Down
The Piñata That Would Not Stay Down

Post 5 of 6 about building Rainbow Tile Slide. I share a few of the more interesting issues that were harder to fix than I anticipated.

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Steph PawlowskiSeptember 8, 2026AI, rainbow tile slide, Rainbow Series, XCode, game
I Was Not Seeing Things
I Was Not Seeing Things

Post 4 of 6 about building Rainbow Tile Slide. I told Claude the numbers on my app icon were crooked. It built a picture proving they weren't, and explained that I was seeing things. I was not seeing things.

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Steph PawlowskiSeptember 7, 2026game, ios, Rainbow Series, XCode, AI, rainbow tile slide
Accessibility as a Priority
Accessibility as a Priority

Post 3 of 6 about building Rainbow Tile Slide. I began building with accessibility in mind from the very beginning, not as an afterthought.

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Steph PawlowskiSeptember 6, 2026game, rainbow tile slide, Rainbow Series, AI, XCode, ios
Getting What Mattered into the Plan
Getting What Mattered into the Plan

Post 2 of 6 about building Rainbow Tile Slide. Before any code existed, I wrote a plan. It was a list of what I was going to build. It said nothing about what I wanted to be true about the thing once it existed.

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Steph PawlowskiSeptember 5, 2026game, rainbow tile slide, Rainbow Series, iOS, AI, XCode
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Steph Pawlowski

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