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How to play Caveman Taxi

A practical Caveman Taxi guide covering keyboard and touch controls, smooth flight, safe landings, passengers, fuel, rocks, Campaign, Daily and Practice.

Caveman Taxi · 8 min readRead article

Super Air Hockey guide

Learn the Super Air Hockey controls, positioning, defence, direct shots, bank shots, five difficulty levels and single-player modes.

Super Air Hockey · 7 min readRead article

What Caveman Taxi taught me about simple controls

A first-hand field note on Caveman Taxi's simple controls, the tutorial that learned to watch players, mobile challenges and lessons carried into SaratogaKit.

Caveman Taxi · 6 min readRead article

Why Super Air Hockey needed restraint

A first-hand field note on protecting the feel of Super Air Hockey, teaching computer rivals to read the table and using SaratogaKit to keep spectacle honest.

Super Air Hockey · 7 min readRead article

What AI game development needs after the prototype

Saratoga Games on using AI agents for real browser games: creative direction, context, testing, production memory, release builds and the role of SaratogaKit.

Saratoga Games · 9 min readRead article

From GridInc to BuyoutInc

How Saratoga Games turned a proven idle-game foundation into BuyoutInc, protected the working progression and rebuilt the world around a sharper new idea.

BuyoutInc · 8 min readRead article

Submitting Caveman Taxi to CrazyGames

A first-hand account of preparing Caveman Taxi for CrazyGames, passing the submission review, entering Basic Launch and learning from live player data.

Caveman Taxi · 9 min readRead article

The idea that became GridInc

From the 2024 notebook: how South Africa's electricity frustrations became the foundation for GridInc, an idle game about keeping the lights on.

GridInc · 6 min readRead article
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