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Roadmap · What ships next

Three worlds,on schedule.

Bassline Mars is submitted. BAAL and Strings of Fortune are deep in production, with verified mathematics and locked art direction. Every row below shows the finished parts marked finished — and the windows are quarters, because the last stage of any build sits in a laboratory queue we do not control.

A build is finished when a laboratory says it is, and live when an operator puts it in a lobby. This page tracks everything up to that door — and gets edited when a date moves, not after it has passed.

Four words, in this order and in no other sense. A title moves one step right only when the work behind it is done.

  1. 01

    In design

  2. 02

    In production

    BAAL, Strings of Fortune

  3. 03

    In certification

  4. 04

    Submitted

    Bassline Mars

The schedule
  1. 2026Submitted

    Bassline Mars

    6×5 pay-anywhere tumble

    Bassline Mars key art: a robot DJ playing to a crowd under laser light on Mars
    Key art · final

    A rust-and-neon megaclub under a red sky, where the BPM meter is not decoration — it is the multiplier. Every cascading win pushes the tempo higher and every win on screen climbs with it. Four bonus rounds, two ante levels, and a rival DJ who has to be beaten in front of a crowd.

    Where it actually stands

    Submitted means submitted. The build is finished and the figures are certified; the day it appears in a lobby is set by an operator, not by us. That is why this row carries a year where the others carry quarters — the remaining variable is not ours.

    Progress5 of 6 complete
    • Maths modelDone
    • Art direction lockedDone
    • Engine integrationDone
    • 16-language localisationDone
    • Certification passDone
    • Operator launch scheduledIn build
  2. Q4 2026In production

    BAAL

    5×5 ways · wheel of damnation

    BAAL development build: a full board of wilds with the demon lord watching
    Development build · captured in-game

    A cathedral of black stone and living lava, ruled by a demon lord who pays his debts. 3,125 ways across a 5×5 grid feed a double-ring wheel that decides which of the nine hells opens next — blood-moon respins with growing sticky wilds, a soul-flow that charges reel to reel, and a dark pact that cuts in both directions.

    Where it actually stands

    The maths is verified and the game runs end to end against the real publish files. What is in build now is the feature pass: every segment of the wheel becoming a fully playable feature — blood-moon respins, the soul flow, the dark pact — rather than a named payout. That work is why the window is a quarter and not a month.

    Progress3 of 5 complete
    • Maths model — verified buildDone
    • Art direction lockedDone
    • Wheel + base game playableDone
    • Feature build — the nine hellsIn build
    • Certification passIn build
  3. Q1 2027In production

    Strings of Fortune

    5×4 · 1,024 ways · puppet multipliers

    The golden theatre: gilt masks above a stage framed in crimson curtains
    Primary environment · final

    A haunted golden theatre where the puppets are the prize. Marionettes land bound by three strings, each hiding a multiplier from 2× to 1,000×. Flames burn the strings one by one; a freed puppet pays its multiplier and walks the reels. Multipliers on different reels multiply each other — the compounding is where the 100,000× lives.

    Where it actually stands

    The model is finished and verified — the compounding, the tiers, the 100,000× ceiling are all measured, not projected. The theatre itself is most of the way built; the puppets are being rigged and the frontend is in its quality pass. It ships when the show is worth a full house, and not before.

    Progress2 of 5 complete
    • Maths model — verified buildDone
    • Art direction lockedDone
    • Asset productionIn build
    • Frontend buildIn build
    • Certification passIn build
Method

How a title gets built.

Four phases, in this order, for every title. The ranges are what we plan against, not what we promise: they overlap at the seams, they move when the work says so, and the last of them does not move for us at all.

  1. 01

    Mathematics

    10–14 weeks

    The model is written, simulated across hundreds of millions of rounds, and optimised against the exact tail constraints a certifier measures. Return, volatility and max-win achievability are settled here and nothing downstream is permitted to move them. It comes first because everything after it is an expression of it — and it is the phase that most often runs long.

  2. 02

    Art direction

    16–20 weeks

    Sets, symbols and identity, modelled and lit at print resolution. By the time an artist starts, the maths is already known: how often each symbol appears, how long a round lasts, which frame the player will see ten thousand times. Art made before the model is art that gets redrawn.

  3. 03

    Engine

    12–16 weeks

    Rendering, animation, audio and state. The presentation layer is wired to a result it has no ability to influence, portrait and landscape come out of one build, and sixty frames is a requirement rather than a target. This is also where the compliance work that was designed in from the start finally has to prove it works.

  4. 04

    Certification

    6–12 weeks, and not ours

    The submission package goes to an accredited laboratory and waits its turn. We can prepare for this phase — restricted-word routing, jurisdictional copy variants and social-casino labelling are built into the game rather than bolted on at the end — but we cannot schedule it. This is the single largest reason every window on this page is a quarter and not a date.

Commitments

What we will not do.

A roadmap is only worth reading if the studio behind it has ruled something out. These five are ruled out. Each one costs us time, money or the easier version of a sentence, and the cost is printed beside it.

  1. 01

    No reskin ships with our name on it.

    The quickest route to a second title is to take the first one’s model, swap the symbols, change the name and file it again. It works. It is legal. Operators buy it. We will not do it. Bassline Mars, BAAL and Strings of Fortune share a studio and nothing else — three models, three worlds, three reasons to exist.

    What it costsEvery title runs all four phases above. A reskin skips three of them.

  2. 02

    No title ships on borrowed art.

    Every asset in every game is modelled, lit and rendered here. No stock packs, no marketplace symbol sets, no filler dressed up as a render. If a piece of art is in one of our games, it was made for that game and for nothing else.

    What it costsA symbol set takes weeks. A licence takes an afternoon.

  3. 03

    Presentation never decides an outcome.

    The result of a round is settled by the maths before the first frame of the animation plays. Nothing on screen — a slowed reel, a light that lands one cell short, a symbol that arrives late — is capable of changing what has already been decided. A mechanic we cannot say that about does not get built, however well it demos.

    What it costsIt rules out most of what makes a sizzle reel exciting.

  4. 04

    No date this studio cannot hold.

    Windows here are quarters because a quarter is the resolution we can actually honour. When something slips — and something always slips — the window on this page widens before anyone has to ask, with the reason attached. A missed date quietly retracted is worth far less than a range stated wide and kept.

    What it costsOur roadmap looks less confident than everyone else’s.

  5. 05

    No figure is dressed up as more than it is.

    Certified figures are quoted as certified. Figures from a pre-certification build are labelled exactly that, and re-measured every time the books regenerate. Where something is genuinely unsettled, this site prints an em dash rather than an estimate.

    What it costsThe in-production pages read more carefully than a sell sheet would.

Next

A quarter is the public answer. There is a longer one.

Operators who need something firmer than a quarter can have it, with the reasoning and the risks attached rather than removed. Integration scope, certification coverage and commercial terms are handled the same way as everything on this page: stated once, plainly, and held to.