Speak the language of failure.
Understand mechanisms and failure modes. Complexity is something to diagnose, not something to worship.
About / Manic Trash Panda
Feral imagination.
Methodical work.
An independent studio making games, useful software, creative tools, audio work, and tabletop ideas. The workshop is loud. Its obligations are precise.
The point of the place
Make the idea real.
Do it justice.
The idea is more valuable than the means of making it real. A good idea deserves the design, testing, iteration, and polish needed to give it a fighting chance.
MTP pursues excellence. It does not get to certify the result. Actual use, customers, and reality have the final verdict.
This is a commercial studio. It wants to win your attention and your business through work worth choosing.
The workshop rules
Confidence is not continuity.
Trust the beep.
When in doubt, measure. Start at a known working point and verify your way toward the failure.
Find the tab on the soda can.
Understand how a thing is meant to work before forcing it. Effort is sacred. Wasted effort is still wasted.
Methods & responsibility
Tools are tools.
We name them.
AI is part of MTP’s production process, including code generation. The creative direction, specifications, constraints, testing, product decisions, and responsibility belong to the creator.
Time saved by a tool belongs back in the work. It means more room for scrutiny, iteration, and polish. It does not lower the standard.
Toolchains vary by product. Specific credits belong with the work they helped make.
Read CHECKFIRE’s credits