The brief
Say what the house does in one look. Give it a name that survives a logo. Put a working game in front of operators before any paperwork. English only. Budget: our own hours.
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Case 001 · September 2026
A house with no name, no mark and nothing to show needed all three in a month. So we treated ourselves like a client: a brief, a deadline, no mercy.
Say what the house does in one look. Give it a name that survives a logo. Put a working game in front of operators before any paperwork. English only. Budget: our own hours.
SataMASHO. In Georgian, სათამაშო means toy. The word splits into sata and Masho — and Masho is the founder's nickname. A toy's name and a person's, in one word.
The wordmark keeps the seam visible: sata in ink, MASHO in bronze italic.
A thin frame and one bronze stroke that leaves it. Invented inside the frame, believed outside — the rule the whole house is drawn by. The head in the banner, the three illustrations, the four alter egos: the same frame, the same stroke, every time.
JetBrains Mono for everything short — names, numbers, buttons. Instrument Sans for everything long. Cream, ink, bronze. No gradients, no glow — on this side of the house.
JetBrains Mono — everything short.
Instrument Sans — everything long: the sentences that explain, the paragraphs that persuade, the lines under the pictures.
Every illustration is generated from a written rule — one continuous ink line, one bronze stroke, one frame — then traced, recoloured and set into the same frame by a script. A fifth or a tenth drawing lands in the set without a designer touching it.
The four alter egos show their hands, not their faces. You meet the people when we work together.
Operators don't want a cream page. They want a character, a demo and a deal. satamasho.games is the same house after dark: acid green, one neon stroke — the same stroke — and the Courier, an original character drawn for it. She holds up a sealed parcel. That is the offer.
Phasis. A working game — story, art, sound, the whole loop — playable in a browser on mock money, with the version number on screen so everyone knows which build they are looking at. It is the proof the hub points to, and the reason the paperwork can wait.