NEW FILE OPENED: NewCaptains, coming soon

TOP SECRETFILE NO. 069420SUBJECT: ONE (1) DEVELOPER THREAT LEVEL: CAFFEINATEDDISPOSITION: SHIPS ANYWAY

Exhibit A · asset 01 · Early Access 28 Oct 2026

SynapseGrid

A light-cycle combat racer where your trail never fades — it becomes the arena. Ninety missions, four-player couch splitscreen, ten riders online. Built by one person in Ontario who converts coffee into light-cycle combat at an unsustainable rate.

Wishlisting costs nothing, and it is the one thing that decides whether Steam ever shows this game to anyone. We checked. Twice.

STATUS: brewing DEMO: out now, beta NEXT FEST: 19–26 Oct 2026 RELEASE: 28 Oct 2026 BAIL: $7.99, once

EXHIBIT A — motion picture evidence captured in Godot 4.2 · no actors were harmed, several were de-resolved
FILE 01 / subject record
VERIFIED BY NOBODY
The AlluringCoffee mark: a coffee cup with circuit-board steam rising from it
SUBJECT · MUGSHOT
declined to face camera

Personnel record

Designation
AlluringCoffee
Head count
1 (one). The org chart is a circle with a name in it.
Location
Ontario, Canada. Specific coordinates withheld.
Engine
Godot 4.2.2, Vulkan only. There is no DirectX fallback and there is no plan B.
Known aliases
“the dev”, “that guy who replies to bug reports at 2am”
Business model
Charge once. That is the entire slide deck.
Weakness
classified
Priors
None. This is the first offence.

Subject describes the work as “a light-cycle combat racer where your trail doesn’t fade”. Investigators note this is technically accurate and unhelpfully brief.

FILE 02 / evidence locker

Items recovered from the premises. One shipped, one is music, one is a half-built railway with a regrettable level crossing.

Cyan, gold and magenta walls converging as the arena closes in SHIPPED

Synapse Grid

Ninety missions. Four-player couch splitscreen. Ten riders online. Your trail is a permanent solid wall, and for the first few seconds it will kill you as happily as it kills anyone else. There is no boost button — the only way to go fast is to ride close enough to a live wall to regret it.

EARLY ACCESS 28 OCTFREE DEMO OUT NOW $7.99WIN / LINUX / DECK
Synapse Grid original soundtrack cover art

Synapse Grid — Original Soundtrack

Thirty tracks, from empty-grid ambience to full battle storm. Written by the same person who wrote the collision code, which explains a lot about both. Sold separately because the composer negotiated hard with himself and lost.

30 TRACKSSEPARATE RELEASE
A steam locomotive hauling red coal wagons round a curve across grassland, from the NewCaptains test world COMING SOON

NewCaptains

A transport management sandbox for Windows PC: lay rail and road, buy trains, and haul coal and goods between towns as the decades change. It runs today as a test world with curved track, switching, level crossings and a day and night cycle, and it is not finished. There is no store page and no release date, only a dated estimate with its arithmetic showing.

COMING SOONWINDOWS PC ETA not at these rates (estimate)

Latest update: 16 Oct, New looks: pioneer steam, a louvred electric, and crossings without barriers →

FILE 09 / statement

One person, one pot

AlluringCoffee is an independent game studio in Ontario, Canada — small in the sense that it is one person and a kettle with opinions. Synapse Grid is the first Steam release, developed and published in-house, built in Godot across 2026.

We would rather charge once than nickel-and-dime the people who play our games. That is the whole business plan, and it fits on this card with room left over.