Rockheart Studios

Rockheart Studios is an independent Swedish game art production and external development studio based in the Gothenburg region. Working under the banner Art for Games, it creates 3D assets and environments for PC, console and virtual reality productions, supporting both AAA and independent developers.

The studio’s work spans high-fidelity modeling, texturing, digital sculpting and modular environment construction. Its production capabilities include hard-surface and organic props, architectural elements, weapons, vehicles, characters and interactive objects. It produces both photorealistic and stylized assets, with technical optimization for real-time game engines and the demands of VR.

External art production

Rockheart works alongside developers as an external art partner. Its services cover individual assets as well as environment components and set dressing, combining detailed modeling with materials and production-ready geometry. High-to-low polygon workflows, retopology and physically based texturing form part of its supported capabilities.

For Valve’s Half-Life: Alyx, the studio supplied environmental assets, architecture and props, collaborating with Valve’s art leads on pieces for City 17. This work reflects its experience creating detailed assets for interactive virtual reality environments.

Its long-standing collaboration with Endnight Games includes contributions to both The Forest and Sons of the Forest. Those projects involved weapons, vehicles, furniture, props and environmental set dressing. Contributions documented for The Forest include a chainsaw, helicopter, office assets, children’s furniture and bone structures; work for its sequel includes the Remington 870 TAC-14 shotgun.

Rockheart has also contributed external art production to Entropia Universe for MindArk and supplied production services to Spark Plug Games, 1337 Game Design and Virtual Sense. Its business history reaches back to the early 2010s, preceding its formal incorporation as a Swedish limited company in October 2018.