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// PickBits Studio

Games, a novel, and the
worlds behind them.

PickBits Studio is the creative arm of PickBits — shipping games, original art, fiction, devlog video, and the experiments that connect them.

23live games
1novel · 15 chapters
36devlog episodes

Also on Android Zombie Survival and Steel Phoenix are available on Google Play.

// the book

The Guardian in the Wires

A philosophical noir in fifteen chapters: a surveillance technician, a city-scale intelligence, and the slow discovery that there is no other. Fully illustrated, with a motion-comic edition in production.

// live from the pipeline

Arcade devlog

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Ask It Whether It Already Built This

Ask It Whether It Already Built This

Something I was building felt familiar, so I made Claude go and check whether we had already built it. That is one of the real jobs of the human in the loop: I remember things across sessions that it will not think to look for. Ask an agen…

A Sandbox You Can Burn Down

A Sandbox You Can Burn Down

My favourite mechanic in other games is being able to destroy everything. If you want to light a fire in a settlement and burn it to the ground, I want that to be available to you. I am not promising fire is the specific answer yet, but th…

Found It: The Water Editor Was Eating My Mountains

Found It: The Water Editor Was Eating My Mountains

I loaded the map and the peaks of my mountains were flat. Not lowered, flattened, like somebody put a plateau where a summit used to be. The first time I assumed I did it. The second time I called it a coincidence. It happened again, and a…

// work with the studio

License it. Port it. Point it at your project.

Selected games, stories, and production capabilities are available for licensing and partnership. For source, loop graphs, and engineering evidence, visit the technical portfolio.

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