Our Team
As a small indie game development studio, we all wear a lot of different hats!
Rob
Founder & CEO
Producer, Designer,
Programmer,
DevOps, Art, Sound
Ann
CFO,
Community Manager
Willow
Fuzz Tester,
Mascot
We're a small independent game development studio founded by a veteran of mobile and porting game companies. Our mission is to craft the kind of games we love to play and trust that others will enjoy them as much as we do.
Grab our press kit here.
As a small indie game development studio, we all wear a lot of different hats!
Founder & CEO
Producer, Designer,
Programmer,
DevOps, Art, Sound
CFO,
Community Manager
Fuzz Tester,
Mascot
Get all the latest news on our games here.
Guest Speaker Engagement
I was invited to speak at the University of Waterloo this past weekend as part of their Game Design Club's Winter Game Jam. I talked about Paladin's Passage, giving a full post-mortem analysis of the game: what went right AND what went wrong.
Rob Targosz
2025-02-10
Microsoft Game Dev Blog
We are fortunate to have been featured on the Microsoft Game Developer's blog in their question of the week (QOTW) segment. This edition asked developers to elaborate on how to stay focused during the long time-spans and distractions of a game development lifecycle.
Rob Targosz
2024-11-26
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Live Stream on Twitch
Join the ID@Xbox team over on Twitch as they play Paladin's Passage on Xbox Series X on Tuesday November 26th at 7:00 p.m. ET. I'll be joining them and answering questions about the game, development, etc.
Rob Targosz
2024-11-25
Console Release Now Available
Paladin's Passage is officially available NOW for only $9.99 USD on Sony PlayStation 5 and Microsoft Xbox Series X|S!
Embark on an epic journey where you create and destroy blocks to navigate through 140 levels of magic and danger.
Every block you add or remove changes the flow of the game.
Hand-crafted levels provide complex puzzles and challenge your reflex actions.
Now's the time to Block'n'Roll...
Press kit available here
Rob Targosz
2024-09-17
Update
The 1.0.2 release of Paladin's Passage is now available for all platforms, fixing the following issues:
- Switched Steam Deck and Apple Silicon GPU builds to use Temporal AA Upsampling for better performance. Unfortunately, FSR 2 doesn't work on Steam Deck with UE 5.2.
- When closing the Steam Overlay with Escape/Back button, in-game menus no longer close.
- Spawned skull enemies no longer intermittently get stuck.
- Removed mouse settings from UI.
- Fixed issues with Community involvement and Popularity achievements not working.
- Cleaned up some extra items in level editor palette.
- Disabled erroneous achievement for unlocking chapter 1.
- Updated scoring for collecting fairies (or fairy).
Rob Targosz
2023-10-19
Launch Announcement
Change the map; change your fate.
Paladin's Passage is now available on the Steam Store.
A block a day keeps the dragons at bay!
Rob Targosz
2023-08-30
HR News
We're excited to welcome Ray as the newest member of our team. A recent grad from the Conestoga College Game - Design programme, he comes to us from Dark Slope, where he spent 8 months designing levels for an upcoming title.
Rob Targosz
2023-04-24
Announcement
Sadly, we have taken Word Portal down from all stores (iOS, Google Play and Windows). After more than 5 years, our online service (GameSparks) has been moved to Amazon and, despite an average 4.6/5.0 star rating, we just don't have enough daily active users to justify porting to a new back-end service.
If you already own Word Portal on iOS or Android, you'll still be able to install and play the game, but online leaderboards will no longer update.
Thanks to the thousands of you who played and enjoyed Word Portal. Maybe someday we'll do another word game!
Rob Targosz
2023-03-30
Announcement
We will be participating in Steam NextFest between June 13 and 21, 2022, including doing two live developer broadcasts on Friday June 17 and Saturday June 18. You can find full details - and wishlist the game on our game page on Steam.
Rob Targosz
2022-05-28
Announcement
We have started work on a new game called Paladin's Passage, slated to ship on Steam in 2023.
This new game will replace the mobile game Lost Keys that we shut down a few months ago and is yet another homage to the classic game, Solomon's Key.
Rob Targosz
2021-04-18
Announcement
Sadly, we have taken Lost Keys down from all stores (iOS, Google Play and Windows). After more than 8 years, and despite an average 3.7/5.0 star rating, keeping the underlying game engine updated with all the new mobile OS features is no longer viable for our small team.
If you already own Lost Keys on iOS or Android, you'll still be able to install and play the game, but it may not function on iOS and Android OS versions released after this date.
Thanks to the tens of thousands of you who played and enjoyed Lost Keys. Keep an eye out, though, we're planning something BIG to replace it!
Rob Targosz
2021-02-22
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