By the numbers

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By the numbersOctober 26, 20264 min read

Writing short: cutting 317 scenes to 202

We cut the first season of Hayat Dosyası, infancy and the first two years, from 317 scene records to 202. The average scene went from 41 words to 21. Here is what we cut and what we could not.

By the numbersOctober 26, 20264 min read

Balancing a life simulation with bots

Playing hundreds of Hayat Dosyası lives by hand is hard. So we wrote two kinds of bot, ran 1,200 lives, and caught a skew in where adult lives end up.

Tell me at launch

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