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Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile

Simon Willison · Oct 21, 2026 · Other Signals

Simon Willison's open-source game forked into French steampunk reskin within one day

“Panache est un jeu de stratégie en temps réel pour mobile et navigateur, dans la France de la Belle Époque (vers 1900) : dirigeables, Fardiers à vapeur, Creusot cuirassés, automates en képi, Gargantua la forteresse marchante — et beaucoup de panache.”

Simon Willison released a mobile RTS game called Battle Drones under Apache 2.0, and within a day a French developer forked it into a steampunk Belle Époque reskin called Panache. The content is about open-source game development and has no meaningful AI industry signal relevant to the newsletter.

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