Side project coded on a flight home from Japan now outshines dev's 4-year game
LinusEkenstam · x · 2026-10-08
A game developer spent 4 years building a game and flew to Japan to promote it. On the flight home, he built a Minesweeper-style fantasy RTS called Keepsweeper just for fun — and it's now getting more attention than the game he went to market. Available on iOS and free in the browser.
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