I.The studio

Four of us, one balcony, and the lab assistant.

The lab assistant: a round, terracotta-coloured creature with small ears, holding a flask with a flame on it

Fig. 7 — The lab assistant, current sketch. The one we keep coming back to.

egelab is four people who met over a shared dislike of games that nag. A programmer who used to build trading systems, an illustrator who grew up in Çeşme, a teacher, and a producer who keeps the calendar honest.

We spend most mornings playing what shipped the night before. The afternoons are for arguing about colour. We keep a short list of things we will not do: no energy meters, no fake countdowns, no reading your contacts.

If you are a small team with a prototype and no time for levels, tests and polish, we co-develop for a share of revenue. Nothing upfront, no exclusivity, one honest call to start. How it works →

Direction & codeAlican K.

Illustration & glassKübra K.

Levels & learningEsra K.

ProductionCandan K.

Lab assistantunnamed, aged about nine

Contact — [email protected]

I.bThe lab assistant

Where he started. A boy with a flask, on our coast.

Illustration of a barefoot boy on a rocky Aegean shore at dusk, holding a glass flask of green liquid, white houses and islands behind him — **Fig. 8** — Early illustration test, painted warm. Too serious for a loading screen; we kept the flask and the light.