Interim build / quality over shortcuts
We build games, software, and websites worth getting lost in.
About
Who we are
A UK-registered studio working across web, software, and games. On the books, that's one person.
In practice it's me plus a handful of freelancers and a friend I've worked with for years, brought in when a job wants a second pair of hands. The same hands still write the shader, configure the firewall, and answer the email. Whatever I didn't build myself goes past me line by line before it goes out.
I'm a perfectionist in the clinical sense of the word: it ships when it matches the spec, and I'd rather it beat the spec. Slower than an agency, and much harder to talk out of getting it right.
The studio is also home to the personal and freelance work of its founder, Alphaproject (opens in a new tab).
Support
Two separate pots, if you fancy putting money in one: the studio, or its founder. Neither expects it, both appreciate it.
Faceplant Studios
Support the studio directly.
Alphaproject
Support the founder
WIP posts & behind the scenes.
Services
The short version of what the studio takes on. The full site will go into detail on each, and if what you need isn't on the list, ask anyway.
Custom sites and applications, built to spec.
Software that lives outside the browser.
Shared through to fully managed dedicated hardware.
Infrastructure off the spreadsheet and into the cloud.
Locking things down before someone else finds the gap.
Sites that work for everyone using them.
Being found, not just existing.
Knowing what your site and its users actually do.
Words and posts that sound like a person wrote them.
Sourced, edited, and optimised for the web.
From raw footage to something worth watching.
This is not the whole list!
Works
Games, software, and sites, some the studio's, some Alphaproject's.
If it's on this page it's either live, in progress, or far enough along to talk about.
Live
A perk and build randomiser for Dead by Daylight, with desktop, mobile, and OBS overlay frontends. The longest-running thing we've built, and a lot of what turns up elsewhere started life in here. floater-ui began as a one-off dropdown for it before we saw the potential and broke it out on its own.
Paused Teaser live
A sci-fi social deduction game, set in the future with plenty of story left to mine. Paused for now: the networking and high-res assets it needs cost money we don't have, so we're learning Unreal Engine on Intruder first. The teaser that used to sit on this domain is still running.
In development
A tense home-invasion thriller, one house, one night, and someone else inside. A one-off for now, with plenty of room to grow into more maps and modes once the intruder AI and pathing are learned and completed.
Open source
A self-hosted VLC remote for watch parties, with live-synced playback, playlists, seats, and a tunnel out to guests off your LAN.
npm Open source
Floating UI for the browser, covering dropdowns, popovers, tooltips, context menus, and modals. No dependencies, used across our own sites, still an early build with an API that is not stable yet.
Website
Live
Alphaproject's personal site and portfolio.
Not everything here is code...
There's always something else going. Check back.
Commissioned work we build and keep running.
See more commissioned work (opens in a new tab) briggs-space.co.ukContact
A project, a question, or a rough idea you want a second opinion on, all fine.
You'll get a straight answer, including the one where you don't need us.
