Foundation First
Cachespan exists to build games — but the first thing we are building is not a game. It is a company that can build games for a long time.
Most independent studios start with a prototype and improvise everything around it. We are deliberately doing the opposite. Before the first line of gameplay code, Cachespan is establishing its identity, its legal foundation, its documentation, its infrastructure, and its engineering practices. Progress is measured in completed capabilities, not sprints, and each milestone should leave the project in a stronger, more maintainable state.
Where the foundation stands
The brand is established: name, vision, tagline, and visual identity, with the trademark application filed at INPI. The company runs on a documented workspace — every decision that matters is written down, from development principles to the master roadmap that this very devlog reports against.
The technical groundwork is growing alongside it: a shared AI infrastructure for concept and asset exploration, a design system, and this website — built page by page, in the open.
Why a devlog, now
Open development only means something if it starts before there is anything impressive to show. This devlog begins at the foundation stage precisely so the record is complete: the decisions, the tooling, the mistakes, and eventually the game itself.
A finished game hides the years that made it possible. Foundations disappear beneath whatever is built on top of them — that is what foundations are for. This devlog is how we keep the record: written forward, while the outcome is still uncertain, rather than backward from a finish line. A studio that intends to honor the past should begin by recording its own.