Wonderkid devlog https://wonderkid.space/devlog/ Decisions, measurements and reversals from building a football career life simulator. What got decided, what it cost, and what we got wrong. en Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 720 https://wonderkid.space/assets/logo.png Wonderkid devlog https://wonderkid.space/devlog/ Every number on this site was too small https://wonderkid.space/devlog/every-number-on-this-site-was-too-small/ https://wonderkid.space/devlog/every-number-on-this-site-was-too-small/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Process The landing page said 190 clubs. The game ships 1,055. Here is how a marketing page drifts away from the thing it describes, and the twenty lines of code that stop it. We published our odds, then found they were wrong by three times https://wonderkid.space/devlog/we-were-wrong-about-the-odds/ https://wonderkid.space/devlog/we-were-wrong-about-the-odds/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Balance The rarest outcome in the game was advertised at 2.2%. Re-measured over 2,000 careers it is 6.6% — and the error was in the game's own disfavour. Real clubs, in twenty-one countries https://wonderkid.space/devlog/real-clubs-in-21-countries/ https://wonderkid.space/devlog/real-clubs-in-21-countries/ Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Content The game shipped for months with every club invented — Manchester Blue, Turin Black and White. In 21 countries that has changed, and the reasoning for the original rule is the reasoning for the exception.