2026-07-16
Guns that aim, plus an AI-built rig tool
Wiring aimed gunplay into the zombie survival game, with an AI-built rigging tool doing the heavy lifting.
// PickBits Studio
Games, a novel, and the
engines that build them.
PickBits Studio is the creative arm of PickBits — an agent-operated studio shipping browser games, fiction, and the open-source AI pipelines that produce their art, sound, and video.
16live games
1novel · 15 chapters
20devlog episodes
3open-source engines
// the arcade
Featured games
// Phaser · solo wave survival + round-based economy
Zombie Survival
Survive the apocalypse, one round at a time.
LIVE☁ cloud savesActionSurvival
// Phaser · nonlinear metroidvania
NanoFormers
One robot. Eight Robot Masters. A collapsing megastructure.
LIVEPlatformerMetroidvania
// HTML5 Canvas · 60 FPS bullet patterns
Steel Phoenix
Vertical rogue-lite. Bullets first, card drafts after.
LIVE☁ cloud savesShoot 'em UpRoguelite
// Custom Canvas engine · combo system + AI brawler
Street Fury
Fight your way through the streets!
LIVEBeat 'em UpAction
// the book
The Guardian in the Wires
A philosophical noir in fifteen chapters: a surveillance technician, a city-scale intelligence, and the slow discovery that there is no other. Fully illustrated, with a motion-comic edition.
// live from the pipeline
Arcade devlog
2026-07-15
NanoFormers: a Mega Man Metroidvania
A walkthrough of NanoFormers, the newest game in the PickBits Arcade — charge beam, dash, a full roster of unlockable boss powers, and power-gated backtracking.
2026-07-10
Steel Phoenix gets a hype man
A narrator now calls out every power-up as you grab it. Ten minutes to wire in, and suddenly every pickup feels like an event instead of a stat bump.
// next up
In development
// Unreal Engine 5.8 · unreal-mcp
Untitled Survival Project
Open-world survival in Unreal Engine 5 — built live with Claude MCP.
IN DEVELOPMENTdevlog running
// HTML5 Canvas · up to 3 players
Kaiju City Smasher
Co-op monster brawler. Smash the city, not each other.
IN DEVELOPMENT
// React Three Fiber + Zustand
Little Grove
A cozy 3D garden that grows with you.
IN DEVELOPMENT
// HTML5 Canvas · GTA2-style open city
Cyber City
Top-down mayhem in a neon metropolis.
IN DEVELOPMENT
// work with the studio
License it. Port it. Point it at your project.
The games, the book, and the production pipelines are all available for licensing and partnership — and four of the engines are already open source.