Behind the Scenes

For weeks we shipped builds with the microphone off, and nobody noticed

A cleanup meant to shrink the installer quietly disabled the microphone for weeks. How we found it, and why we now test on a fresh Windows install before every release.

Every game gets its own art in EchoControl. We almost broke that by putting the same icon on two

No EchoControl profile shares a visual template with another one — and the time we accidentally put the wrong icon on two games at once.

We redesigned this screen six times in eight days. The version with no background won

The screen where you pick which game to use is the first thing anyone sees. We overbuilt it, then spent a week undoing our own work.