Initializing the workshop

The first question worth answering is: why does this exist?

There’s no shortage of games being made. There’s no shortage of game studios with marketing budgets and launch trailers and Discord servers. The world does not need another one of those. So the studio has to justify itself some other way — by building something that wouldn’t otherwise get built.

The bet

The bet is small and specific: build 3D browser games by hand, ship them directly to players, and treat the player’s attention as something worth earning rather than extracting. No app stores, no installers, no analytics that track you across the rest of the web. A link, a click, and you’re inside the world.

That’s not a novel philosophy. It’s not even particularly fashionable right now. But it’s the one this studio is built around.

What’s being built

The flagship is a 3D world game. Without saying too much about it yet: it’s a concept that was tried a decade ago and didn’t land — partly because the technology wasn’t there, partly because nobody gave it the time it needed. The tools have caught up. The question is whether someone will give it the time now.

Alongside the flagship, there will be small experiments. Tools, toys, sketches. Things that don’t fit anywhere else. Some will be thrown away. Some might become full games. The point is to keep shipping things in public so the studio stays honest.

How it’ll work

• Dev log entries appear here when there’s something worth saying. Not on a schedule.
• Games get their own pages at /games/[id] when they’re playable.
• No newsletter. If you want to follow along, bookmark this page. If the studio ever does notifications, they’ll be opt-in via your browser, not via email.
• No trackers. The only analytics is privacy-friendly aggregate stats from the hosting provider.

What’s next

The flagship is months away from being showable. Between now and then: dev log entries about the world-building process, the tools being built to support it, and the small experiments that ship along the way.

If that sounds like something you’d want to watch happen, you’re in the right place.