{"rewrite":{"id":"r_cd52ea42daf3990dad61edd4","clusterId":"c_4c20bbb49d533daa20b223fd","slug":"chillyroom-runs-over-10-development-lines-with-indie-style-autonomy","model":"deepseek-v4-flash","headline":"ChillyRoom Runs Over 10 Development Lines With Indie-Style Autonomy","summary":"In an interview at BitSummit PUNCH, ChillyRoom CEO Li Zeyang detailed the studio's unusual structure: around 200 employees organized into small, self-starting teams of 4-5 people. Most projects are employee-initiated rather than top-down. The company currently has about ten mobile projects and three PC/console titles in development, including the extraction shooter \"No Such Place,\" the console game \"Loulan: The Cursed Sand\" (part of SIE's China Hero Project), and the cyber action roguelike \"ReBlade: The Death Spiral,\" which is nearing completion after three years with a seven-person team.","whyItMatters":"ChillyRoom's self-organizing, multi-team model shows how a mid-sized studio can sustain indie-scale experimentation across a dozen simultaneous projects without central direction.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eChillyRoom CEO Li Zeyang described the company\u0026#39;s structure as closer to an indie collective than a traditional developer. Teams are small-around four to five people-and projects are initiated by employees rather than assigned from above. If a project becomes a hit, the team expands. The approach has produced the mobile hit \u0026#34;Soul Knight\u0026#34; (over 50 million Android downloads) and now supports three PC/console titles alongside roughly ten mobile projects.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe PC/console slate includes the extraction shooter \u0026#34;No Such Place,\u0026#34; the larger-scale console title \u0026#34;Loulan: The Cursed Sand\u0026#34; selected for SIE\u0026#39;s China Hero Project, and the cyber action roguelike \u0026#34;ReBlade: The Death Spiral.\u0026#34; The latter has been in development for three years with a seven-person team and is nearly finished; a demo is planned for October. Li noted that competition in mobile is fierce, with high traffic costs, which prompted some employees to propose Steam projects.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"ChillyRoom CEO Li Zeyang: ~200 employees, teams of 4-5, projects started by staff, not management. 10+ mobile and 3 PC/console titles in dev. \"ReBlade: The Death Spiral\" demo due October.","twitterPost":"ChillyRoom CEO Li Zeyang: ~200 employees, teams of 4-5, projects started by staff. 10+ mobile and 3 PC/console titles in dev. \"ReBlade: The Death Spiral\" demo due October.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"ChillyRoom CEO Li Zeyang revealed the studio's unusual structure in an interview at BitSummit PUNCH: around 200 employees organized into small, self-starting teams. The company has about ten mobile projects and three PC/console titles in development, including the nearly finished \"ReBlade: The Death Spiral.\"","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"4Gamer.net\",\"url\":\"https://www.4gamer.net/games/963/G096388/20260609005/\",\"title\":\"[Interview] Over 10 Development Lines. 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