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Here's what I've added since.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-05-05-going-my-own-direction/", "published_at": "2026-05-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dced6e1c4e", "title": "The audience came back 20 years older. The chaos is different now.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-04-28-older-audience/", "published_at": "2026-04-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcee638a2f", "title": "The Black Tide Held Six Harbours. None Lasted a Full Day.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-04-24-the-black-tide-held-six-harbours-none-lasted-a-full-day/", "published_at": "2026-04-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dceea4ec5b", "title": "The player who asked to rename their island solved my virality problem", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-04-17-gate-identity/", "published_at": "2026-04-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dceeef5de9", "title": "How I Ship a Browser Strategy Game With Slash Commands and 12 Scripts", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-04-12-release-workflow/", "published_at": "2026-04-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcef36fa74", "title": "One Hundred and Seventy Defenders Stood at CorsairPickle Shore. None Survived.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-04-10-one-hundred-and-seventy-defenders-stood-at-corsairpickle-shore-none-survived/", "published_at": "2026-04-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcef683e84", "title": "BigChris Sent Three Waves Against Inselnova Shoal. Two Were Destroyed. He Took It Anyway.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-04-04-bigchris-sent-three-waves-against-inselnova-shoal-two-were-destroyed-he-took-it-/", "published_at": "2026-04-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf001297c", "title": "What 150,000 Lines of AI-Generated TypeScript Actually Looks Like", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-04-04-150k-lines-ai-typescript/", "published_at": "2026-04-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf056a0b2", "title": "How I Built a Dev Log Pipeline with AI in One Sitting", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-04-03-building-the-devlog/", "published_at": "2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf103920c", "title": "Blind Coding: My AI Workflow for Building a Game from My Phone", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-04-01-blind-coding-workflow/", "published_at": "2026-04-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf1e97cea", "title": "BigChris Sent 1,646 Troops to FlotsamScallywag Shoal. He Now Owns It.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-30-bigchris-sent-1-646-troops-to-flotsamscallywag-shoal-he-now-owns-it/", "published_at": "2026-03-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf201c648", "title": "Alliance banners, a watchtower command board, fleet logistics redrawn, and the first sign of the Black Tide", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-30-the-flags-are-flying-and-the-watchtower-is-staffed/", "published_at": "2026-03-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf2eaafd7", "title": "Why Every Feature in Inselnova Connects to Something Else", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-28-connected-features/", "published_at": "2026-03-28T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf3ac68aa", "title": "From 0 to 8 Daily Players: Finding Early Adopters for a Niche Browser Game", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-25-finding-early-adopters/", "published_at": "2026-03-25T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf3b0efac", "title": "Two Officers Were Assigned to the Eastern Pier at CorsairPickle Shore. Their Report Says 'Large.'", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-24-two-officers-were-assigned-to-the-eastern-pier-at-corsairpickle-shore-their-repo/", "published_at": "2026-03-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf490fc6c", "title": "I replaced Google Analytics, Sentry, and Intercom with AI in a few hours", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-21-replacing-saas-with-ai/", "published_at": "2026-03-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf4d960fe", "title": "Governor Gipe Resolved Fourteen Affairs in One Day at GoblinBroadside Bay. He Arrived That Morning.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-20-governor-gipe-resolved-fourteen-affairs-in-one-day-at-goblinbroadside-bay-he-arr/", "published_at": "2026-03-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf5956777", "title": "A Goose Described as Miraculous Appeared at Emerald Bay. The Council Did Not Act Before It Left.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-18-a-goose-described-as-miraculous-appeared-at-emerald-bay-the-council-did-not-act-/", "published_at": "2026-03-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf59e9906", "title": "The Harbor at RogueRig Fort Is No Longer Empty", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-17-founders-archipelago-the-harbor-at-roguerig-fort-is-no-longer-empty/", "published_at": "2026-03-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf6254e9c", "title": "Governor Aubrius Returns to PickleGalleon Hollow After Twelve Days. The Pirate Wedding Was Not Held.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-16-founders-archipelago-picklegalleon-hollow-has-reopened/", "published_at": "2026-03-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf64491b8", "title": "Governor Windy Walrus Resolved Twenty Affairs in Two Days. He Has Not Yet Launched a Ship.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-15-founders-archipelago-a-second-alliance-has-formed/", "published_at": "2026-03-15T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf6c2ff5a", "title": "I built a multiplayer browser strategy game in two weeks", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-14-built-a-strategy-game-in-two-weeks/", "published_at": "2026-03-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf6fc31a2", "title": "Governor Benny Served Barnacles to a Visiting Ambassador and Called Them a Delicacy. The Silence Lasted Four Minutes.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-13-founders-archipelago-nineteen-additional-engagements-one-governor/", "published_at": "2026-03-13T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf76c1297", "title": "The Founders Archipelago Recorded One Naval Engagement in Its First Seven Days. Last Week It Recorded One Hundred and Four.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-12-founders-archipelago-the-week-the-fleet-awoke/", "published_at": "2026-03-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf7ee3511", "title": "A welcome at the gate, in-place market trades, recovery by post, and twenty new affairs", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-12-new-governors-are-now-greeted-at-the-gate/", "published_at": "2026-03-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf886a4ae", "title": "The Dispatch That Described BigChris's Fleet as 'Just Circling' Was Filed on the Same Morning He Launched His First Attack", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-10-founders-archipelago-the-fleet-was-not-circling/", "published_at": "2026-03-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf8fda823", "title": "Happy islands fight harder. See your real odds before you commit a fleet", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-08-the-week-we-merged-release-notes-with-the-road-ahead/", "published_at": "2026-03-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf9be6b93", "title": "The Founders Archipelago Opened Seven Days Ago. One Naval Engagement Has Been Recorded. It Was Not by Governor BigChris.", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-03-06-founders-archipelago-opening-week/", "published_at": "2026-03-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08787-6dcb-72b1-82f5-39dcf9ec497e", "title": "Your queues at the desk. See build progress, live timers, and what finished while you were away", "url": "https://inselnova.com/chronicle/2026-02-23-harbor-week-when-the-queues-finally-clicked/", "published_at": "2026-02-23T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

How I ask every new player for feedback, and what comes backoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
The Lumen Rupture: claim the sea rocks, dig their ore, forge doctrine shot and hunt the four Risenoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
The UI shows you what's happening instead of telling youoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2026
All Governors Turn on the Tide, and "unknown" Still Circulatesoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2026
Island Stewards: seat one officer for life at Dominion and take an island past level 20original ↗
14 Sept 2026
Every wave of new players tests the game the last wave helped me fixoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2026
Building a Cannon Fodder style browser game with AI in ten daysoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
ChatGPT is one feature away from replacing Slackoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2026
Three Black Tide slips return with the outcome left "unknown"original ↗
5 Sept 2026
Your island sits in the water, plunder reports name the fix, and routes mind themselvesoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2026
The tick engine behind Inselnova: one loop, no resource writesoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2026
Black Tide Grime returns with the outcome left blankoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2026
Clearing a Black Tide island takes a siege, the Chronicle stops repeating itself, and named rocks in the open seaoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
Six months building a game with AI, after never finishing one beforeoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2026
Ocean 9:5 turns back TheBobMob, and the patrol boats still do not returnoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2026
Break up the ships you cannot berth, a siege rebalance, and a long list of fixesoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
Building a character creator out of AI art in a dayoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
The quartermaster proposes blue dye for oars, againoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2026
A thousand governors in, here's who stayed and where Inselnova goes nextoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2026
Medium Island is freed twice, and the Harbor still counts ships twiceoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2026
Combined attacks. Muster fleets from every harbour you hold, land them as one, strike under your alliance's banneroriginal ↗
3 Aug 2026
An audit opens, and the harbor counts ships twiceoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2026
Supply routes run themselves, research becomes a tree you climb, and your world prints a daily newspaperoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2026
I used to debug my own code in my head. A year of building with AI took that away.original ↗
24 Jul 2026
Running multiple AI coding agents at once burned me out until I built a system for itoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2026
Medium Island Was Freed Twice This Week, and Both Times It Paid in a Blackened Idoloriginal ↗
18 Jul 2026
Conquest, loosened. Capture any rival's colony, punch up without losing your whole fleetoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2026
I ask AI for a failing test before I build a feature. I've got more than 5,000 now and I'm not sure that's healthy.original ↗
14 Jul 2026
What's next for Inselnova, and whyoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2026
Claim an ocean, and whoever lives there decides. Alliance Council votes, new tavern games, a plunder rebalance, and your realm's Identityoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2026
The AI skills behind Inselnovaoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
How to use AI coding skills: less typing, fewer bugs, repeatable resultsoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2026
From daily releases to weeklyoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2026
Call for Aid. Raise the alarm, garrison your allies, climb six alliance ranksoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2026
I stopped building dashboards and started asking my database questions. SaaS is about to do the same.original ↗
27 Jun 2026
War at sea. Raise a patrol to guard your waters, blockade enemy convoys, spot raiders from your Watch Toweroriginal ↗
27 Jun 2026
Get people in, read the data, change one thing, repeat. The loop behind five onboarding rebuilds.original ↗
25 Jun 2026
Rob an enemy harbour by stealth, and your alliance levels up. Slip in for their stores, take on shared quests, earn alliance XPoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2026
My best players don't fade out, they vanish. Three months of data from my browser strategy game.original ↗
20 Jun 2026
Codex writes better code than Claude Code. I moved everything back to Claude Code anyway.original ↗
18 Jun 2026
Your harbour now sets your fleet's limit. Count your berths, plunder for double score, prise open a sealed sea-crateoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2026
Dread Lord Won Ninety-Five Battles, Lost One, and Left.original ↗
16 Jun 2026
I can't tell if my browser strategy game is finished. I don't have enough players to know.original ↗
16 Jun 2026
Browser games are easy to build now. The hard part is deciding what they should be.original ↗
12 Jun 2026
I run an AI loop workflow to fix my own bugs. I won't run one to build features yet.original ↗
10 Jun 2026
Old-school browser games are coming back. They're not clones, it's a genre.original ↗
9 Jun 2026
Empty granaries now starve the garrison, blessings sail with the fleet, every leaderboard climb hits the tickeroriginal ↗
9 Jun 2026
I cloned a game-marketing expert into an AI skill. The trick was priming, not prompting.original ↗
6 Jun 2026
King of the Tide, and goods that buy speed. Hold an island that drowns your garrison, spend goods to rush any build or training, ship lumen without losing itoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2026
I built a king-of-the-hill event for my browser game. Two players locked it down in half an hour.original ↗
4 Jun 2026
I sped my strategy game up to respect players' time. It backfired.original ↗
2 Jun 2026
Inselnova now speaks German — and Korvath, the war god, is hereoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
I built a strategy game you can fight your coworkers in, a few minutes a dayoriginal ↗
31 May 2026
Fleet templates. Save a loadout, reload it in one tap, let combat auto-pick the escortoriginal ↗
31 May 2026
Governor's Morning Report. See what your realm did overnight, take what Brann finds on the shore, keep a Days of Rule streak goingoriginal ↗
27 May 2026
Wealth statues. Pick a monument, drip coin into it, climb the Wealthiest leaderboardoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
The strategy game that never resets: how the Black Tide cleans up after players who quitoriginal ↗
23 May 2026
Balance changes, flotsam salvage, fleet card redesign, Community taboriginal ↗
23 May 2026
Event improvements, live ledger and moreoriginal ↗
22 May 2026
The Black Tide is hoarding your lumen. Watch the hoard from your tower, raid them back, bring home a Blackened Idoloriginal ↗
21 May 2026
Shutter your realm while you are away, and run your alliance from a shared war roomoriginal ↗
20 May 2026
Building an AI harness around your app. Releases got slower. Hotfixes nearly stopped.original ↗
18 May 2026
Alliance Hold contests are live: take a contested island, hold it, bank the hours, your alliance winsoriginal ↗
18 May 2026
Workshops are live: pick a trade, buy the blueprint, and start craftingoriginal ↗
15 May 2026
The first five minutes of my game, rebuilt five timesoriginal ↗
12 May 2026
I copied Inselkampf to start. Here's what I've added since.original ↗
5 May 2026
The audience came back 20 years older. The chaos is different now.original ↗
28 Apr 2026
The Black Tide Held Six Harbours. None Lasted a Full Day.original ↗
24 Apr 2026
The player who asked to rename their island solved my virality problemoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2026
How I Ship a Browser Strategy Game With Slash Commands and 12 Scriptsoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2026
One Hundred and Seventy Defenders Stood at CorsairPickle Shore. None Survived.original ↗
10 Apr 2026
BigChris Sent Three Waves Against Inselnova Shoal. Two Were Destroyed. He Took It Anyway.original ↗
4 Apr 2026
What 150,000 Lines of AI-Generated TypeScript Actually Looks Likeoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2026
How I Built a Dev Log Pipeline with AI in One Sittingoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2026
Blind Coding: My AI Workflow for Building a Game from My Phoneoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2026
BigChris Sent 1,646 Troops to FlotsamScallywag Shoal. He Now Owns It.original ↗
30 Mar 2026
Alliance banners, a watchtower command board, fleet logistics redrawn, and the first sign of the Black Tideoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2026
Why Every Feature in Inselnova Connects to Something Elseoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2026
From 0 to 8 Daily Players: Finding Early Adopters for a Niche Browser Gameoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2026
Two Officers Were Assigned to the Eastern Pier at CorsairPickle Shore. Their Report Says 'Large.'original ↗
24 Mar 2026
I replaced Google Analytics, Sentry, and Intercom with AI in a few hoursoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2026
Governor Gipe Resolved Fourteen Affairs in One Day at GoblinBroadside Bay. He Arrived That Morning.original ↗
20 Mar 2026
A Goose Described as Miraculous Appeared at Emerald Bay. The Council Did Not Act Before It Left.original ↗
18 Mar 2026
The Harbor at RogueRig Fort Is No Longer Emptyoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2026
Governor Aubrius Returns to PickleGalleon Hollow After Twelve Days. The Pirate Wedding Was Not Held.original ↗
16 Mar 2026
Governor Windy Walrus Resolved Twenty Affairs in Two Days. He Has Not Yet Launched a Ship.original ↗
15 Mar 2026
I built a multiplayer browser strategy game in two weeksoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2026
Governor Benny Served Barnacles to a Visiting Ambassador and Called Them a Delicacy. The Silence Lasted Four Minutes.original ↗
13 Mar 2026
The Founders Archipelago Recorded One Naval Engagement in Its First Seven Days. Last Week It Recorded One Hundred and Four.original ↗
12 Mar 2026
A welcome at the gate, in-place market trades, recovery by post, and twenty new affairsoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2026
The Dispatch That Described BigChris's Fleet as 'Just Circling' Was Filed on the Same Morning He Launched His First Attackoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2026
Happy islands fight harder. See your real odds before you commit a fleetoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2026
The Founders Archipelago Opened Seven Days Ago. One Naval Engagement Has Been Recorded. It Was Not by Governor BigChris.original ↗
6 Mar 2026
Your queues at the desk. See build progress, live timers, and what finished while you were awayoriginal ↗
23 Feb 2026