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“Iron Pigeon” gives the Tyson project an internal name

Background: The studio is moving the Tyson project from an initial contact toward an ongoing internal effort, while card art and player experience are still taking shape. Today: The Tyson project’s internal codename became “Iron Pigeon,” drawn from the story that he raises pigeons. Impact and next steps: The codename gives the art, demo, and future discussions a concise shared label, but it does not change the fact that collaboration is still developing and details remain to be agreed.

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Background: The studio is moving the Tyson project from an initial contact toward an ongoing internal effort, while card art and player experience are still taking shape. Today, the team needs a name it can use to coordinate, one tied to a distinctive detail from Tyson’s life.

Today: The Tyson project’s internal codename became “Iron Pigeon,” drawn from the story that he raises pigeons. The name gave the still-abstract card project something the team could refer to. Some felt it was direct; others worried that outsiders might not see how it related to boxing, so the team kept it as an internal name rather than a conclusion about public branding.

Impact and next steps: The codename gives the art, demo, and future discussions a concise shared label, but it does not change the fact that collaboration is still developing and details remain to be agreed. The team will use “Iron Pigeon” to coordinate current work and decide later whether external materials need an explanation or a different formal name.