Mobile SagaTidepool Verses
a slow-tide poetry saga you swipe through at dusk
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Fitzroy · Melbourne indie studio
Touch-first game sagas, built in the open
We are a small Fitzroy studio designing, prototyping and shipping tactile mobile games — and we write down every messy decision in our development journal so you can follow along.
— hand-lettered from the bench at 58 Smith Street
What keeps our studio honest
14Games shipped since 2016
2,300+Playtest sessions run
4.7★Average App Store rating
480Dev journal entries
How we work with you
Pick the collaboration that fits your build
Every engagement is scoped from Smith Street and billed transparently in Australian dollars. No lock-in, no mystery retainers.
Design Sprint
from A$2,400
per 2-week sprint
Prove the core loop before you commit.
- Discovery workshop & one-page game brief
- Interactive touch prototype
- Full art direction & UI kit
- Live builds published to journal
- Moderated playtesting (12 players)
- Analytics & retention tuning
- Store submission (App Store & Play)
Most chosen
Full Production
from A$18,000
per milestone
Concept to a store-ready touch saga.
- Discovery workshop & one-page game brief
- Interactive touch prototype
- Full art direction & UI kit
- Live builds published to journal
- Moderated playtesting (12 players)
- Analytics & retention tuning
- Store submission (App Store & Play)
Playtest Lab
from A$960
per cohort
Watch real thumbs meet your build.
- Discovery workshop & one-page game brief
- Interactive touch prototype
- Full art direction & UI kit
- Live builds published to journal
- Moderated playtesting (12 players)
- Analytics & retention tuning
- Store submission (App Store & Play)
Studio hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–6pm AEST. Weekend playtests by arrangement.
From our shelves
A journal of games we have made touchable
Filter by the kind of work you are curious about. Each cover links back to a full write-up in the journal.
Mobile Saga
Narrative RPGLantern & Loom
branching folk tale where every choice reweaves the map
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PuzzlePocket Orchard
grow-and-match garden puzzler, 200 hand-drawn levels
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PrototypeStatic Bloom
a two-thumb rhythm experiment we shipped in nine days
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Mobile SagaFerry Line 86
a tram-window diary set on the 86 up Smith Street
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Narrative RPGHollow Cartographer
draw-your-own-dungeon RPG with ink that never dries
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Players and partners on working with us
“The Design Sprint saved us from building the wrong game. In ten days TouchSaga proved our combat loop was boring and handed us a version that actually sang.”
The studio in numbers
Nine years of shipping tactile games from Smith Street
We stay deliberately small so the people who design your game are the ones who answer the phone.
9 yrs
Building touch-first games in Fitzroy
1.8M
Lifetime downloads across our catalogue
6
Makers on the team, no middle layer
480
Public journal entries and counting
Say hello
Tell us about the game in your head
Drop into the studio on Smith Street or send a note. We reply to every enquiry within two business days.
- Phone
- +61 3 9417 1265
- Studio
- 58 Smith Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065
- [email protected]
- Hours
- Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm AEST