RICHARD BRETTON

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RichardBretton

Technical Product Owner · Product Manager

I conceive and build real products — with the acquired taste to catch assumptions dressed up as fact. Product judgment is the moat; the tooling is just throughput.

Every level below is a real, shipped product. Pick your level and dive in.

The Campaign · shipped & in progress

Lvl 01 Live

League of Legends

The LoL Meta Market

The 2025 pro meta priced like a stock market — adoption vs. performance, buy / sell / hold calls, and whether it's the champion or the pilot. Built on 2,198 real pro games, every number hand-reconciled.

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Lvl 02 Live

Elden Ring

Build Optimizer

Pick a boss, get the build that actually kills it fastest — damage types, status procs, hits-to-kill. It found that Malenia resists the Scarlet Rot she inflicts. Deployed, live, and it catches its own lies.

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Lvl 03 In progress

Original IP · Action-RPG

Eclipse

A solo-built action-RPG under real product discipline — shipped milestone by milestone against definition-of-done gates, on an AI-augmented pipeline I architected and verify by hand. The reason the studio exists.

Current campaign · devlog soon
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The Next Level

Pick a real product question → build & verify → ship it right here. The loop doesn't stop. Check back soon!

Passive skill

How I direct — and verify — AI

AI vs. human was never the real question. What matters is whether someone with real context is on the hook for what ships. Turn AI loose and it hands you something that sounds right — confident, polished, and generic. It doesn't know your players, your business, or what "good" means here. That part's mine: the judgment, the taste, the call on what's actually true. AI brings the throughput; I bring the reason to trust it — and the spine to throw it out when it's wrong.

Caught a query counting empty ban slots Corrected specialist-by-frequency → by-skill Rejected off-voice copy that wasn't mine

Origin

Gaming saved my life. Now I build with it.

Almost twenty years ago I was about as broken as a person gets — no direction, no ground under me. Games gave me somewhere to stand, and eventually something to build.

This is what that turned into. Now I build and ship real products — in the medium that gave me a reason to. Every level here started as a question I actually cared about, and ended as something you can open.