ENGINEERING
Gameplay systems, custom tools and reliable pipelines built for steady iteration.
FROM THE CREATORS OF PROJECT NIGHTMARES
THE BROKEN KING
DARK FANTASY · 3D ACTION ROGUELIKE
Your blood is your health, your ammunition and your currency.Every shot is a decision.
PUBLISHER INQUIRIES ↗
♛ THE BROKEN KING
IN DEVELOPMENT
PC
CONSOLE PLATFORMS PLANNED
THE BROKEN KING · GAMEPLAY
EVERY SHOT
HAS A COST.
Your blood keeps you alive, fuels your attacks and buys your way forward. Spend it to fight. Recover what you can.
3D ACTION ROGUELIKEDARK FANTASYIN DEVELOPMENTPCCONSOLES PLANNED
EXPLORE THE GAME ↗
GAMEPLAY / EARLY DEVELOPMENT · 47 SEC
CORE GAMEPLAY PILLARS
BLOOD ECONOMYOne resource powers health, ammunition and progression.
COMBAT DECISIONSAttack, preserve or recover—every exchange changes the risk.
SYSTEMS-DRIVEN WORLDCombat, light and strange spaces respond as one authored whole.
RELEASED · PC + CONSOLES
PROOF OF EXECUTION · OUR RELEASED GAME
SHIPPED ACROSS
PC AND
CONSOLES.
From the creators of Project Nightmares. NCStudio finished and shipped Case 36: Henrietta Kedward across PC and consoles, including physical editions.
PROJECT NIGHTMARES · SHIPPED ON
COMMUNITY
NCSTUDIO · INDEPENDENT GAME TEAM
ENGINEERING
MEETS
ART.
We are an independent team focused equally on game development and high-fidelity visual craft.
Gameplay, tools and production pipelines evolve together, keeping ambitious art direction practical, performant and consistent from prototype to release.
VISUAL CRAFT
Art direction, modeling, materials and lighting shaped toward a polished, distinctive result.
PRODUCTION
Technical and visual decisions developed together, with performance and delivery in mind.
NCSTUDIO · UNITY LABORATORY
VISUAL SYSTEMS.
BUILT TO PLAY.
A closer look at the custom tools and effects behind The Broken King.
We prototype art and engineering together in Unity, then profile every system until its visual impact, gameplay response and hardware cost feel equally intentional.
UNITY CAPTURE · REAL-TIME
EXPERIMENT 01 · METABALL BLOOD
ONE ORGANIC MASS.
MANY MOVING PARTS.
Controlled influence fields let separate droplets merge into a continuous form, while a custom material gives the blood its surface and motion. The active area and update budget stay bounded, preserving the look without paying for a full fluid simulation.
FIELD BLENDINGCUSTOM MATERIALBOUNDED UPDATES
UNITY CAPTURE · INTERACTIVE
EXPERIMENT 02 · INTERACTIVE FOG
ATMOSPHERE THAT
RESPONDS TO PLAY.
A constrained interaction layer lets nearby gameplay disturb density and falloff, so movement opens readable trails through the fog. By keeping sampling local and tunable, the response stays immediate and its GPU cost remains predictable.
LOCAL INTERACTIONCONTROLLED SAMPLINGGPU-AWARE
LAB CAPTURE · SPECTRAL
EXPERIMENT 03 · SPECTRAL EFFECT
AN OTHERWORLDLY
PRESENCE IN MOTION.
A study of spectral motion and atmosphere. The effect adds an uncanny visual accent to the scene, giving the supernatural a distinct presence on screen.
SPECTRAL MOTIONATMOSPHEREVISUAL STUDY
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