--- title: 'Text is evil:' How making Peak changed indie studio... description: Aggro Crab studio head Nick Kaman shared at GDC Festival of Gaming how co-developing the hit game Peak with Landfall Games transformed his studio's culture.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/text-is-evil-how-making-peak-changed-indie-studio-aggro-crab-cmsqg8c30 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 'Text is evil:' How making Peak changed indie studio Aggro Crab | daily.dev og:description: Aggro Crab studio head Nick Kaman shared at GDC Festival of Gaming how co-developing the hit game Peak with Landfall Games transformed his studio's culture.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/text-is-evil-how-making-peak-changed-indie-studio-aggro-crab-cmsqg8c30 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/cmsqg8c30.png og:image:alt: 'Text is evil:' How making Peak changed indie studio Aggro Crab og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 'Text is evil:' How making Peak changed indie studio Aggro Crab **[Game Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/gamedeveloper)** · 6 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Aggro Crab studio head Nick Kaman shared at GDC Festival of Gaming how co-developing the hit game Peak with Landfall Games transformed his studio's culture. Landfall's 'cowboy' approach — no task-tracking software, no scheduled meetings, minimal friction — initially clashed with Aggro Crab's more structured style, but ultimately inspired lasting changes. Kaman adopted spontaneous communication over text chat (coining 'text is evil'), rearranged the office for easier collaboration, reduced scheduled meetings, gave employees free Fridays for personal projects, and stepped back from micromanaging. Despite Peak being built on spaghetti code and full of bugs, its multi-million-copy success validated the fast, freedom-focused development philosophy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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