misty.day
A game-making circle, half-seen through the fog.
Studio Process
§1 — Discovery Through Making
We do not begin with a game design document. We begin with a feeling — a tone, a texture, a half-remembered dream of how a moment should feel when someone experiences it. The document comes later, if it comes at all. What matters is the first prototype: rough, broken, beautiful in its incompleteness.
“Always start with the fog — clarity comes after.”
§2 — The Circuit of Collaboration
Every project is a circuit board. Ideas flow like current through traces of conversation, branching at decision points, converging at solder joints where two minds connect. The resistance in the system — disagreement, confusion, surprise — is not a bug. It is the component that gives the circuit its character.
§3 — Shipping Into Mist
A game is never finished. It is released into the fog, where players find it and carry it to places we never imagined. Our job is to make the artifact worth discovering — to hide something true inside something beautiful, and trust the mist to carry it where it needs to go.
Revisit this for the next jam. Maybe we need a §4?
Feel First, Design Second
Core Principle 01
Resistance Is a Feature
Core Principle 02
Trust the Mist
Core Principle 03
Project Archive
Lantern Protocol
A puzzle game about sending light through fog. Players construct optical circuits to guide lantern beams to lost travelers. 2024.
Telegraph Garden
A narrative sim where you tend a garden that communicates through Morse code. Each flower species transmits a different pattern. 2023.
Amber Hours
A time-loop mystery set in a 1970s film studio. The clues are hidden in continuity errors across repeated takes of the same scene. 2023.
Solder & Smoke
A cooperative board game adaptation about building circuits under time pressure. The smoke is just for atmosphere. 2022.
Half-Light
An atmospheric walking sim through a fog-bound coastal town. No objectives, no map — just wandering and wondering. 2021.
Wire Mother
A Bitsy game about an AI learning to feel through simulated touch. Made in 48 hours. Our first project together. 2020.
Games are fog machines. They create an atmosphere where meaning can condense out of thin air. The player breathes it in and it becomes something personal, something we never designed.
Every circuit has resistance. That's where the heat is. That's where the light comes from. Don't smooth out the friction — that's where the interesting things happen.
We make games for everyone.
We make games for the curious.
The best playtesting feedback is always the same: “I felt something I didn't expect to feel.” That's the whole job. Everything else is wiring.
Remember: the telegraph was the first internet. Every wire we lay is an echo of someone else's desire to connect across distance and fog.
Mist is not obscurity. Mist is invitation. It says: come closer. Look harder. There's something here worth finding.
Some things are better found in the mist.