🇬🇧 EnglishWhy we removed free-text chat from a children’s game
Filters fail. A closed list cannot. What that costs, and what it buys.
The notebook
Long-form stories from behind the game: how things are built, what broke along the way, and what we learned about tabletop football. Written by Miguel Ángel Villar Alarcón, who builds the game — one article at a time.
🇬🇧 EnglishFilters fail. A closed list cannot. What that costs, and what it buys.
🇬🇧 EnglishIt looks like just flicking figures at a ball. Quite a lot more is going on.
🇬🇧 EnglishHalf psychology, half playground economics: the eternal magic of the sticker album, explained.
🇬🇧 EnglishFour kids, one rainy afternoon and a kitchen table are all you need for a World Cup.
🇬🇧 EnglishEverything a new player should hear five minutes before their first ranked duel.
🇬🇧 EnglishYou do not need to be a tech expert to audit a kids' game. You need ten minutes and this list.
🇬🇧 EnglishLong before video games, every country invented its own way of playing football on a table. This is that story.
