Games forged by gamers · Tempered in code
The Forge
Game Projects
Playable titles, prototypes, and experiments — all being hammered into shape.
10 projects · More brewing
Community Gamejam
Got a game idea? Submit it. Vote on the rest.
Steam-style submissions, a fair vote-first leaderboard, and a real path from idea to prototype. Wishlist any entry — GitHub sign-in only required to vote.
Tools of Haephestus
Studio services, forged with heat.
Haephestus is the umbrella for Metal Games tooling: build, store, document, shape, host, and move the work from spark to playable.
The Bellows
Loop Forge
Generates loop prompts and keeps verdicts honest.
Forge Fleet
Dogfood Forges
All 12 registry dogfood hosts. Status is derived from live hub fleet probes — Down on a non-200 or non-ok probe, Ephemeral for hub / non-durable storage, WIP while loading, Live only when the probe says so.
hub.metalgames.xyz is Ephemeral (storage durable:false today). services.metalgames.xyz is Sprite Forge — not Hephaestus.
Adjacent studios
Outside the Haephestus suite.
These products remain part of Metal Games, but they are not sold as Haephestus tools.
Haephestus suite: 8 tools · 2 adjacent studios · 12 forges
About
One Dev. Too Many Ideas. Not Enough Sleep.
Metal Games Studio is a one-person indie forge — part artist, part designer, part developer. Based in Austin, TX, building games that blur the line between indie experimentation and professional craft.
From roguelites to tactical RPGs to AI-powered tools — if it's interesting, it's getting built. Every game starts with a question: what if? Every prototype is an answer being forged.
This isn't a studio with a mission statement and a ping pong table. It's one person with a forge, a GitHub account, and an unreasonable number of side projects.
Austin, TX · Est. 2020