# Pal Leksan

> Pal Leksan is an independent game developer in Norway and the founder of AnimaByte, a one-person game studio.

## Canonical pages

- [Pal Leksan personal site](https://leksan.com/): Background, current projects, working method, devlog, interviews, and contact details.
- [AnimaByte studio](https://animabyte.com/): Studio identity, project updates, public builds, and community links.
- [Project evidence](https://animabyte.com/nfv): Detailed prototype evidence, screenshots, validation plans, and business documentation. This page is in Norwegian.

## Current projects

### Operation Red Hour

Operation Red Hour is the priority project. It is a compact tactical action game with short missions, unified squad control, and quick access to the core action. A playable and relatively stable browser prototype exists.

- [Play the Operation Red Hour prototype](https://animabyte.com/nfv/resources/builds/operation-red-hour/index.html)

### Ants Army Attack

Ants Army Attack is an early product candidate based on ant movement, colony behavior, and scale. The current build is a technical simulation, not a playable game prototype. Market demand has not been proven.

- [Run the ant simulation](https://animabyte.com/nfv/resources/builds/ants-simulation/index.html)

## Background

Pal worked in finance for eight years. During five years selling mortgage services, he spent three years on full commission. More than 90 percent of his former sales clients came through channels he built himself. He left finance to develop games full-time.

## Development approach

1. Build the smallest playable core.
2. Test it with relevant players.
3. Observe behavior and collect feedback.
4. Continue, improve, reduce, change direction, or stop based on evidence.
5. Expand only after the game earns more development time.

## Contact

- [Email Pal](mailto:palll@pm.me)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/palll/)
- [X](https://x.com/palllpalll)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzmCz3iGM2vSKBTgxreBIfA)

## Site navigation

- [Selected work](https://leksan.com/#game)
- [Ant simulation](https://leksan.com/#research)
- [Professional background](https://leksan.com/#about)
- [Development approach](https://leksan.com/#process)
- [Personal background](https://leksan.com/#identity)
- [Current focus](https://leksan.com/#devlog)
- [Developer interviews](https://leksan.com/#interviews)
- [Contact](https://leksan.com/#contact)

The optional game follows page scrolling. Contact details and project links are always available without playing.

Last updated: 2026-09-06.