Same-nation and same-decade bonuses make World 11 a real draft. Here is how chemistry sets up the tug of war between the obvious star and the player who fits.
A balance bot runs hundreds of optimal teams through the full gauntlet and reports the champion rate. That dial replaced the playtest team a solo developer does not have.
All of World 11's balance lives in data files. Tuning the difficulty means editing JSON and rerunning, never touching the simulation. Here is why that split matters.
Facts are not copyrightable. Here is the practical line a solo developer can walk to ship a game using real names, positions, and years, with freely licensed faces.
World 11 is a World Cup draft roguelike built solo in Godot 4. Spin a nation and year, draft real legends, and sim a fourteen match gauntlet.
Orchard Deck is a complete cozy collectathon built solo in Godot 4 and shipped as a free browser game. Here is the stack, the systems, and why a web build changed everything.