Breakout

Game developers — from indie solo teams to mid-size studios — decide what to build next with gut feel. Breakout turned that decision into a data product, built as three complementary modules.

Pitch evaluation and greenlighting — an 8-step evaluator that grades a new game concept against the patterns of thousands of real launches (differentiation, market timing, art style fit, audience match, execution plausibility), on top of a searchable library of launch stories. GTM planning — a timeline library of how successful games actually went to market (community seeding, content creator reach, demo timing, launch cadence), turned into tailored campaign plans. Micro-tools — a Steam page scoring engine, a tag-network momentum analyzer, a 64-style art taxonomy, and an LLM-driven pitch-to-tags classifier, each solvable as a standalone product.

Under the hood: a 40GB+ warehouse of game data scraped continuously from Steam, SteamDB, Twitch, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter, filtered from 264k raw games down to ~15k high-signal titles, served by six independently-deployed Railway services. Go-to-market was high-touch: 60+ validation calls across studios and publishers including SVP-level conversations at Ubisoft, surfacing a $1M valuation offer before walking away on stage-fit grounds. Post-mortem published on LinkedIn.