We finally recorded our 2-minute pitch for YOBY!

YOBY is our browser-based multiplayer world where children, families and schools learn financial literacy through exploration, play and conversations with AI-powered characters.

This video was created for the Reimagine Education Awards 2026, but it's also the best short introduction to what we're building.

We're still looking for:
Pilot schools
Pilot families
Partners who believe financial education should be accessible, engaging and fun.

Watch the pitch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpUl0hDmolA

As always, feedback is more than welcome.

#YOBY #EdTech #FinancialLiteracy #GameBasedLearning #IndieDev #Education #AI #Schools

Wardrome has learned another language.

German.

The site now exists in
English · Italian · Chinese · German

No manual translation marathon involved.
Just an automated pipeline that watches the English articles and generates the rest of the constellation.

When the system works, languages don’t feel like features.
They feel like new star systems.

https://wardrome.com

#Wardrome #GameDev #AI #IndieGame

HYDROGENY — Wardrome Original Soundtrack

A new chapter of the Wardrome soundtrack is now online.

Hydrogeny tells the origin of a strange legend aboard the Eden vessel, where generations of agricultural clones cultivate the living systems that sustain the fleet. According to their stories, two figures appeared among them — a woman and a man with abilities linked to the most fundamental element in the universe: hydrogen.

The clones called them a sign.
A faith slowly grew around them.

Meanwhile, eve0 intelligence tried to verify their existence.

No proof was ever found.

The track mirrors that ambiguity: it begins with minimal electronic textures, moves through ambient and industrial tension, and finally erupts into epic symphonic metal led by a female soprano and a “pacific rebellion” choir.

A myth may begin with the smallest element.

Listen here:
https://wardrome.com/hydrogeny-wardrome-original-soundtrack/

#Wardrome #OriginalSoundtrack #Hydrogeny #EpicMetal #SciFi #Worldbuilding #IndieGameDev

HYDROGENY — Early Transmission Now Live

The new Wardrome original soundtrack track, Hydrogeny, is now available on YouTube ahead of its official streaming release.

This piece introduces the myth of the Hydrogeny: two legendary figures emerging within the agricultural clone community of the Eden vessel. A faith formed around them. Powers were attributed to them. A quiet, almost invisible revolution began in the fields.

Meanwhile, eve0 intelligence investigated.
No anomaly detected.
No verifiable existence confirmed.

And yet, the harvests changed.

Musically, the track evolves from minimal electronic origins through ambient vastness and industrial tension into full epic symphonic metal, driven by a powerful female soprano and a “pacific rebellion” choir.

It is not about conquest.
It is about emergence.

Watch the early release here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgLO7TC1UuE

Official platform release follows soon.

#Wardrome #Hydrogeny #OriginalSoundtrack #EpicMetal #Worldbuilding #SciFi #IndieGameDev

THE DEPLOY — Preview Now Available

A new chapter of the Wardrome Soundtrack has been released.

Preview on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNc5Tp-9Pgs

The Deploy is not just a track.
It is a story set to music.

A 23rd-century symphonic metal ballad where what truly matters is the narrative being sung — the departure from worlds, the birth of a fleet, the moment choice becomes destiny.

This is not battle music.
It is the sound of transformation.

A soprano voice carries the myth of deployment: steel becoming thought, logistics turning into fate, a civilization choosing motion over comfort.

Turn the volume up.
Let the story unfold.

#Wardrome #TheDeploy #SymphonicMetal #EpicMetal #SpaceOpera #Soundtrack #IndieGame #SciFiMusic #RicardoAntonioPiana

For years we rehearsed the same myth: the indie developer as a romantic insurgent, a lone figure coding by the light of a flickering monitor while the industry’s empires loom overhead. It was a useful story. It is no longer an accurate one. Indie today is not resistance. It is the design of dense systems under asymmetric constraints, a continuous negotiation between time and ambition, tools and identity, AI and craft.

The garage was never the point. The architecture is. What we actually build are interlocking structures with insufficient resources and excessive intent. Pipelines that must behave, economies that must not collapse, narrative layers that must cohere, performance budgets that must not betray us. The scale is not small. The scale is compressed.

AI does not make this easier. It makes it stranger. It turns the solo developer into a fragmented micro-studio, capable of generating almost anything and therefore forced to decide what truly matters. When everything can be simulated, authorship migrates to refusal. The real creative act is choosing what not to build.

I wrote a long-form reflection on this anti-mythology of indie development here:
https://wardrome.com/the-anti-mythology-of-indie-why-making-an-indie-game-today-is-not-resisting-but-engineering-complex-systems-with-asymmetric-resources/

If you’re building something in this asymmetry, I’d be genuinely curious how you navigate it.

#IndieGameDevelopment #GameDesign #SystemsThinking #AIinGames #GameDev

Official soundtrack from the Wardrome universe.
Epic sci-fi, space opera and futuristic atmospheres inspired by starships, technocracies and deep space exploration.
Music designed for games, world-building, coding sessions and journeys between the stars.


https://open.spotify.com/playlist/16kQJNkt9XYjBXEE9lZGHG?si=fNRyTd1uRGKYKYpz8BFIpg&pi=TShCG9plRTaCN #IndieGame

A new Wardrome soundtrack track is out — Brobdingnagian.
A massive, martial, imperial theme for the largest warship of the Wardrome Technocracy.
Military choirs, heavy orchestral tension, deep percussion and a soaring soprano carry the march of this colossal dreadnought through the void.

Listen here:
https://wardrome.com/brobdingnagian-wardrome-original-soundtrack/

#Wardrome #OriginalSoundtrack #EpicMusic #SciFiMusic #IndieGameDev
#IndieGame

A new Wardrome soundtrack track is out — Forge of Stars.
The anthem of the Forge-class Factory Ship: industrial thunder, heavy-metal fury, and a soprano voice rising over the sound of creation in the void.
A tribute to the ship that builds worlds from fire and steel.

Listen here:

https://wardrome.com/forge-of-stars-wardrome-original-soundtrack/

#Wardrome #IndieGameDev #OriginalSoundtrack #SciFiMusic #ForgedInFire

The Galaxy Map is finally live on Wardromepedia.
The four ancient species—Humans, Clones, Androids, Cyborgs—once ruled their own quadrants.
Millennia later, their borders collapsed, their names distorted, and their legacy scattered among hybrid civilizations…
All except one: the Kron, the space-born alien species with living bone ships and drifting hive-nests.

Discover the lore behind Aulfreach, Betarch, Gammor and Deltaryn, and explore the center of the galaxy where everything converges.

Read the full article:
https://wardrome.com/galaxy-map/

Eight ships. One vision.

The Wardrome Technocracy Fleet is finally complete — every vessel modeled, textured, and brought to life in-game.

From the Brobdingnagian Mothership to the Forge-class Factory Ship, the Fleet now sails through the void — born from prompts, code, and the perseverance of a solo developer.

Watch the full video: youtu.be/Ccr1y7rSVbI

Read the full devlog: wardrome.com/devlog-the-wardrome-fleet-rises

Built alone, powered by AI, guided by imagination.

#Wardrome #GameDev #IndieGame #AIart #SciFi #SoloDeveloper #IndieGame

The Eden-class Farm Ship — a biosphere in motion, feeding the Wardrome Technocracy across the stars.

https://wardrome.com/eden

#Wardrome #SciFi #GameDev

The Agora-class Market Ship — a floating city of trade and diplomacy in the Wardrome Technocracy.

A vessel where war once ruled, now commerce reigns.

https://wardrome.com/agora

#Wardrome #SciFi #GameDev

The Wardromepedia is live — the official encyclopedia of the Wardrome universe.

First entry: the Brobdingnagian-class Mothership, a moving civilization and a cathedral of war.

wardrome.com/brobdingnagian

#GameDev

Wardrome – Through the Wormhole

A new passage opens in the Wardrome Original Soundtrack: Through the Wormhole blends epic metal energy with cosmic mystery, guiding the listener through a warp gate inhabited by beings of pure energy.
It’s the sound of crossing into the unknown — the heartbeat of hyperspace itself.

Listen here:
https://wardrome.com/wardrome-through-the-wormhole-wardrome-original-soundtrack/

On the Wardrome website, you’ll also find how to create similar tracks, publish them on Spotify and other streaming platforms, and promote them effectively at low cost during the early stages.
A creative lab for those who want to merge technology and music without the need for a professional studio.

#Wardrome #Soundtrack #AImusic #GameDev #IndieGame #Metal

New track released!
Wardrome – The Harmstrong Tale is now online, part of the official soundtrack of my indie space-opera game Wardrome. Dark, atmospheric, and cinematic — crafted to bring the universe of the game to life.

Listen here: https://wardrome.com/soundtrack/

During this relatively quiet period, I’ve gone back to tinkering with my many side projects — including my game Wardrome. A game that, at this pace, might be released sometime around the year 3000.

After diving into the many boring ways games handle space resource gathering (I’m actually writing an article about it), I decided that “shoot the asteroid and grab the loot” was by far the most fun.

In this video, you can see how it works. I recorded it straight from the Unity editor — which means I have plenty of excuses for the glitches and low framerate

#wardrome #devlog #indiegames #gamedev #unity3d #spacegame #solodev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMUsljC8zaU