Independent studio · 10 projects
We build research platforms for people who need to know where a claim came from, games about consequence and scarcity and the things waiting past the edge of the map, and the fiction that grew out of both.
Conflict, outbreak and power research
A research platform for armed conflict, disease outbreaks and the shifting balance of world power, where every claim carries the source it came from. What has actually been published stays separated from what has merely been assumed or modelled, so you always know which of the two you are reading.
globalthreattracker.com
Maritime chokepoint intelligence
The world's trade runs through a handful of narrow places, and the Strait of Hormuz is the narrowest of them. Strait-Watch follows it closely, pairing source-linked reporting with a scenario model whose assumptions you are free to change and argue with.
strait-watch.com
Post-scarcity grand strategy
Something beyond known space has noticed the Accord. You govern it without coercion, spending mandate, attention and trust where another game would spend ore, and you answer for every decision you make, including the ones your Citizen Minds look at and refuse to carry out.
helios-accord.com
Lovecraftian browser MMORPG
It is 1890, and something beneath the world has begun to turn over in its sleep. Hold the age together as Aegis or help wake what is under it as Covenant, in a persistent world of real-time roaming, tactical d100 combat, and a death that does not give your character back.
dread-meridian.com
Sci-fi survival action RPG
In 2172 the Vulkil take Earth while Subject ZOA398 is still asleep in the tank. You wake into an occupied world with your oxygen, ammunition and food all counted, and you lead the counteroffensive back knowing that every mission you fail takes the equipment you were carrying with it.
zoaprotocol.com
Survival swarm shooter
Deployment is mandatory and survival is not. You hold your ground against a tide that keeps arriving long after you have stopped being able to count it, for as long as you can make the line hold.
zoa-swarms.com
Tactical route planning
Enter with a plan and extract with purpose. Raid-Nav takes the tasks you are carrying and the loadout you chose and turns them into one readable route through the raid, so the run is decided before you are standing in it.
raid-nav.com
Modular tabletop platform
Campaigns in the half-light. A multiplayer tabletop platform built in pieces, so the systems your table wants can be added and the ones it does not want can be left out, and a long campaign never quite outgrows the frame it runs in.
lore-frame.com
Literary science fiction horror
It is 2096, and the quantum material holding the world together has begun answering to something else. Amelia Rousseau drives north toward the last station still replying on an isolated line, and toward the woman she left twenty years ago, while the thing beneath the ice learns that a name attached to a duty, a repair or a grief is a route into the person carrying it.
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Unity gameplay systems
The modular gameplay architecture behind our own titles, packaged for other studios. Fifty-one Unity packages covering inventory, ballistics, player composition, persistence and networking, documented package by package.
zoafoundry.com