Working alongside the team at Narsun Studios, Grayhat contributed to Arkadium’s crossword gaming platform, maintaining and evolving a portfolio of over 30 crossword experiences built in React. These included globally recognized titles such as Daily Crossword, Daily Mini Crossword, Daily Commuter Crossword, Thomas Joseph Crossword, Stan Newman Daily Crossword, and Penny Dell Crosswords, serving a large audience of puzzle enthusiasts across multiple publishers and platforms.
Our Grayhatter took complete ownership of the crossword delivery pipeline, collaborating closely with Project Managers, Product Owners, DevOps engineers, frontend developers, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth releases and a consistent player experience. Beyond feature development, they navigated a complex legacy codebase built on Node.js 11 and older React architectures, taking responsibility for maintaining multiple variants of the same core application.
The work extended beyond day-to-day maintenance. The Grayhatter uncovered and resolved deeply rooted issues hidden within years of accumulated code, contributed to the migration toward more modern development practices, and helped refactor critical parts of the platform to improve stability, maintainability, and future development velocity.