Terrible Posture Games

Terrible Posture Games is an independent American video game development studio founded by game designer and technical artist Joe Mirabello. Its work spans procedural first-person shooters, virtual reality action, episodic comedy, narrative games and cooperative multiplayer experiences. The studio operates as a fully remote team with a recognized base in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mirabello began building independent projects after the closure of 38 Studios in 2012. Working solo, he created Tower of Guns, released in 2014, combining fast first-person shooting with procedural encounters and roguelite replayability. Its emphasis on compact, repeatable sessions established a design approach that continued through the studio's subsequent action games.

Action and experimentation

For MOTHERGUNSHIP, released in 2018, Terrible Posture Games collaborated with Grip Digital on a bullet-hell shooter built around modular weapon crafting. Players assemble elaborate weapons from barrels, connectors and other components. The studio adapted this approach to virtual reality with MOTHERGUNSHIP: FORGE in 2022, bringing its weapon-building systems to Meta Quest and PC VR. Content updates continued through October 2026.

The studio also explores formats beyond shooters. 3 out of 10, released across two seasons in 2020 and 2021, is an episodic playable sitcom about life inside a struggling game development company. Its combination of comedy, narrative and interactive sequences represents a different strand of the team's work.

Narrative and collaborative development

Terrible Posture Games led narrative writing for The Walking Dead: Last Mile, the 2022 interactive live event produced with Skybound and Genvid Technologies. It subsequently developed Invincible Presents: Atom Eve, a visual novel and role-playing hybrid released in 2023 in partnership with Skybound Games.

In 2025, the studio collaborated with Nerd Ninjas on Battle Train, a tactical grid-based deck-builder published by Bandai Namco Entertainment America. Its cooperative horror-comedy heisting game, Burgle Supply Company, reached version 1.0 on May 12, 2026, after entering Early Access under the title Good Boy. Across these projects, the studio combines original game development with co-development, narrative writing and adaptations for different platforms.