Chain reactions as graphs: the maths behind a Carillon tap
A Carillon field is a directed graph, a chain is a shortest-path search, and the fewest taps is the number of source components. The maths, explained plainly.
Behind the scenes
How Carillon's levels are made: grown, proven, never repeated
Behind the scenes: how Carillon grows its fields, proves the fewest taps, measures difficulty in bits, and makes sure no two levels feel like the same one.
Made by two: a human and an AI building a puzzle game
Carillon is made by a two-person team: Shravan Goswami and Claude Opus 5.5, an AI model by Anthropic. How the work is split, and a few stories from the build.
Why every pop is a note: the pentatonic idea behind Carillon
In Carillon a dot's colour is its note and its size is the octave, on a pentatonic scale, so any chain sounds like music. How the notes are chosen and made.