Muffin Games

Muffin Games is an independent, remote-first game development micro-studio based in San Francisco, California. The team is developing its debut project, Project Ashgard, with a lean core group and specialist contractors working asynchronously.

The studio’s current focus is a third-person, single-player action-adventure RPG built in Unity. Project Ashgard adapts the progression, encounter design, and class-based combat conventions of MMORPGs for a solo experience. Its setting centers on a tropical archipelago shaped by the ruins of the Tau'kiri civilization, where a young apprentice investigates the fragments of a shattered ancient orb.

Game Development Focus

Muffin Games develops systems intended to give a single-player adventure the tactical structure of MMO combat:

• Class kits built around tank, healer, and damage roles
• Ability rotations, cooldowns, talent trees, and progression systems
• Dungeon and raid-style boss encounters supported by a party framework
• Branching narrative, quest architecture, and worldbuilding
• Crafting professions and systemic exploration

Production Approach

The studio uses Unity tools including Timeline and ScriptableObjects, alongside bespoke in-editor tooling and content pipelines. Its approach emphasizes reducing friction in browsing content, balancing values, and checking interface changes so a small team can spend more time on the game itself.

Early playtests were conducted in February 2026, and the studio has recruited specialist contract roles for combat systems and narrative-plus-quest design. Project Ashgard remains in active pre-production and development.