Manager 11: How I finally shipped my dream football management game with Claude

Manager 11 is a football management game Rye Smith first dreamed up as a teenager and kept returning to for years, until Claude made it real. This is the honest story of how one founder used AI to build a complex, living game from vision to shipped product, covering the UI/UX decisions, the technical engine underneath, and what building with Claude actually feels like day to day.

Details

City
Tokyo, JP
Date
11 June 2026
Time
15:30 – 16:00
Speaker(s)
Rye Smith
Managing Director,
 
Spruik Co.

Agenda

08:00 – 09:00
Check-in and breakfast
09:30 – 09:45
Opening keynote
·
Angela Jiang
Cat Wu
Katelyn Lesse
morning sessions
11:45 – 13:30
Lunch
afternoon sessions
Evening
15:45 – 18:00
Closing reception