People who shipped online worlds
Our leads have built progression systems, live servers and communities that grew past a million players.
Built for worlds with devoted readers
Your readers have imagined this world. We want them to live in it.
Oathwild is ten senior developers with credits on World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, WildStar and Dungeons & Dragons Online. We build MMOs inside the worlds of LitRPG and progression fantasy authors, and the author stays at the table from the first call.
System // player log
- + 41 wolves tracked before the first kill
- + 212 blocks of stone quarried at the north ridge
- + One town wall rebuilt twice under siege
- + Bow drawn 3,180 times, sword drawn 9
- > New path offered: Warden of the Breach
10person core team
6+major franchises represented
1.3Musers scaled at Pixels
1author-first standard
Selected experience across our team
WildStar
Dungeons & Dragons Online
World of Warcraft
Call of Duty
Fable Legends
The Oregon Trail Mobile
Credits represent individual team members’ prior work. Roles and contributions vary by title. Full credits are available during diligence.
Why Oathwild
The game is playable. The world is waiting for its author.
A pre-alpha you can play
Hunting, building, professions, dungeons and town sieges already run on our servers. We show it on the first call.
Your canon, your approval
You approve names, lore and tone before anything goes public. Nothing in your world ships without your yes.
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The studio
Senior enough to know what breaks. Hungry enough to build it differently.
Ten veteran developers cover gameplay, engineering, systems design, art, production, QA, community and commercial strategy.
LitRPG readers already think in classes, skills and level paths. That makes your world a natural MMO. You've written the rules, and players want to test them.
We pick one partner world and build the whole game around it. Your readers become our first players, our first backers and our toughest critics.
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The game
What runs in the pre-alpha today
Power you earn. A world you can change.
It's a third-person MMO in a fully destructible world, and the System at its center watches how each player fights, hunts and builds, then answers with choices made for that player.
PILLAR // 01
Every player grows a path of their own.
The System counts what you hunt, what you build and how you fight. Each level offers choices drawn from that record, and every 100 levels your class evolves.
- Level-up choices shaped by how you play
- Abilities that grow stronger the more you use them
- Class evolutions at level 100, 200 and 300
PILLAR // 02
Towns rise, walls fall, and players decide which.
Every block of terrain can be dug, built on or blown apart. Players raise settlements, and rival towns can lay siege to them.
- Full terrain destruction and building
- Regional war between player towns
- Hardcore servers where a death stays final
PILLAR // 03
The wild pays the ones who read it.
Beasts have habits, packs and weak points. Players tame mounts, work 16 gathering and making professions and push into dungeons alone or in groups of five.
- Tracking, taming and mounted travel
- 16 professions with a player-run economy
- Solo runs, five-player dungeons and a map atlas
PILLAR // 04
Your world's names go in only with your approval.
Until a partner signs, the game uses placeholder names. Once you sign, your races, classes, places and System voice replace them, and you review each one.
- Author review of lore, tone and names
- Clear lines for anything new we add
- No public announcement before you agree
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How a partnership starts
A call first. A license only if it fits.
We are not asking for a blind license. We want 20 minutes to show you the game and hear what you would need from it.
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A 20-minute call
We show the pre-alpha running, and you tell us what your world needs and what it must never become.
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A shared brief
Races, classes, places and tone from your books, mapped onto the systems already in the game.
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A playable slice
One region of your world, built and tested with your readers before anyone scales it up.
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The people at the table
A compact senior core with the range to ship.
Two named leads and eight veteran collaborators. We add specialists only when the game needs them.
Co-founder // Studio & product lead
Andrew Stafford
Game executive and product leader. Served as CTO and CCO of Pixels.xyz, helping build the game from zero to 1.3 million users and leading through the PIXEL token launch.
Co-founder // Technical lead
Bill McFadden
Senior software engineer and technical lead with credited engineering work on Dungeons & Dragons Online and its Menace of the Underdark expansion.
The wider core // Eight collaborators
Built across disciplines.
Senior people in gameplay and platform engineering, systems and content design, art, production, QA, community and commercial strategy. The named roster comes with diligence.
For authors and publishers
Bring your world. We'll bring the game.
If you write LitRPG or progression fantasy and your readers have asked for a game, we'd like to talk. Twenty minutes is enough to show you what already runs.
No public announcement and no use of your world until we both sign.
Start the conversation
- First step
- A 20-minute call and a live look at the pre-alpha
- Then
- A shared brief for your world
- Standard
- Author approval on lore, names and tone