Game · Idle factory builder · 2023
Tiny Foundry
A pocket factory that keeps working while the phone is in a pocket.
- Our role
- Rescue, production, live content
- Timeline
- 5 months to launch, 2 years live
- Built with
- Unity 2022 LTS
- Play rating
- 4.6★ · 22.1K reviews
The brief
Idle production chains on a floating machine island. We took over a stalled codebase from another team, shipped it in five months, and have run the content calendar since.
What we actually did
Untangled the inherited save system into a versioned, migration-safe format — offline progress stopped corrupting on app kill.
Rebalanced the whole production curve in a spreadsheet model, then wired that model straight into remote config.
Replaced forced interstitials with rewarded-only monetisation; ARPDAU went up while 1-star reviews dropped by two thirds.
Built the in-house event tool the client now uses to schedule content without a code release.
Outcomes
1.4M installs
organic-led, 62% from Play search and browse
4.6★
up from 3.8★ pre-rescue
−64% refunds
after the save-system rewrite
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