Craft over clutter
Every system has to earn its place. If it doesn’t make the game better in the hand, it stays off the anvil.
The studio
One smith. A growing fire.
Tyler Joseph Rubino
Founder · Forgeworks Studios
Forgeworks Studios is a new independent game studio. For now it is one person: Tyler Joseph Rubino, working late, heating ideas until they hold a shape worth sharing.
The name is the method. Games are not assembled from a checklist. They are forged — struck, folded, cooled, and struck again. Nebula Merge is the first piece off the bench: a quiet cosmic climb you can play offline, in portrait, without being rushed.
More titles are already in the furnace. They will leave the shop when they are ready, not when they are merely announced. If you play what we make, you have our respect — and our attention.
Forged in the stars.
Values
How we work the metal
Respect the player’s time
Sessions should feel complete. Progress should feel honest. Nothing here is built to waste an evening.
Iterate in the fire
First heat is never the last. We ship when the metal holds, not when the calendar says so.
Worlds that last
Atmosphere is not decoration. It is the reason you stay. We build places worth returning to.