Sky Castle Studios
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- Founded
- 2014
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About Sky Castle Studios
Sky Castle Studios is an independent American creative technology and game development studio founded in 2014. Based in Santa Monica, California, with a distributed team, it develops browser-based character creation software, tabletop gaming products and interactive entertainment. Its work connects digital character design with physical miniatures, downloadable models and virtual tabletop experiences.
The studio is best known for Hero Forge, a browser-based 3D character designer built around customizable tabletop miniatures. Users can combine armor, clothing, facial features, poses and color schemes to create characters directly in a web browser. The platform supports highly customized 30mm miniatures and statuettes, giving tabletop role-playing enthusiasts, game masters and digital artists a way to translate character concepts into physical or digital objects.
Hero Forge offers physical miniatures in monochrome plastic, color-printed materials and cast bronze, alongside downloadable STL files for at-home 3D printing. Its 3D Digital Miniatures and API framework also support use with virtual tabletops and digital engines. These options extend the same character design process across printed miniatures and digital play.
Character tools and tabletop products
Beyond Hero Forge, the studio has developed Chibify, a browser-based chibi character generator, and Charmsmith, a custom jewelry and charm configuration platform. Hero Forge Custom Dice expands its customization work into gaming accessories, allowing users to design engraved acrylic and metal dice. Together, these products reflect the company's focus on configurable 3D objects and on-demand fabrication.
Video game development
Sky Castle Studios has also expanded into video games with Wildmagic Frontier, a character-driven, deck-building tactical RPG developed for web browsers and Windows PC. The game combines tactical grid skirmishes with environments made from scanned physical tabletop dioramas. Integration with Hero Forge lets players import their custom digital miniatures into gameplay, connecting the studio's character creation platform with its game development work.
More about Sky Castle Studios
Founders and origins
Teagan Morrison, David Lenna and Dustin Replogle founded the company. Its origins lie in a team of video game industry artists and engineers seeking to modernize tabletop miniatures through browser-based customization and high-resolution, on-demand 3D printing.
Operating approach
The report describes a flat, collaborative structure bringing together artists, graphics programmers, technical riggers and operations staff in a flexible, remote-first setup.
Manufacturing relationships
The studio has worked with third-party manufacturing and 3D printing suppliers, including Shapeways historically. These relationships are vendor arrangements rather than separately operated studio branches.
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Where Sky Castle Studios is based
- Santa Monica, California, United States
Santa Monica office
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Overall headquarters and central administrative hub for executive leadership, engineering and creative management, supporting a distributed workforce.
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