Madpix Game Studio

Madpix Game Studio is an independent Brazilian game development studio founded in Rio de Janeiro in 2017 by game designer and visual artist Arthur Soares. Its production history spans original games for mobile devices, PC and web browsers, with projects ranging from free-to-play runners to platformers, tower defense and arcade shooting games.

During its active production period from 2017 to early 2022, the studio worked with both 2D and 3D development. Its capabilities included game design, systems architecture, balancing, rapid prototyping and Unity development. Alongside original game production, its stated services included full-cycle development and consulting for gamification and applications.

Games and creative direction

Equilibrium and the Land of Hope is a PC platformer combining cyberpunk imagery with indigenous South American cultural motifs, an approach the studio called “Cyber Tribal.” Its enemy-freezing mechanic supports platform navigation and environmental puzzle-solving. The project was selected for the Panorama Brasil showcase at BIG Festival and was also featured at Game XP.

Octo Dash brought the studio into mobile free-to-play development through an endless runner that reached the Google Play World Top 10 in its category shortly after launch. Its browser projects included Véia Defense: Aliens Attack, a comedic top-down tower defense game created for Ludum Dare 46, and Evo Battle, a hyper-casual science-fiction shoot ’em up. Other documented projects and prototypes included Will Survive, Floridle and Magic Spoon.

Production history

The studio became dormant after Soares moved into external senior game design roles in February 2022. No new titles are documented as entering production after that transition. Its official website remains online, preserving information about its games and development work; continued website availability does not establish that active game production has resumed.