A studio for small worlds.

Making learning playful

The aim is to make engaging, thoughtfully designed games that help people learn, explore, practise and develop their skills through play. The tone is playful and serious about the craft: closer to an independent game studio than to a school textbook.

That means a puzzle for a four-year-old where the lesson is in how the puzzle works, not in a quiz at the end. It means a cozy game for adults that is generous with its players. And it means a club of classic games that work properly on a phone.

What we are making

• HD Games Available
• Mibbi of Pebblewharf In development
• Glowroot In development

How the work is approached

Products should be clear about what they are. A game can be entertaining. A game for learning should show what a player practises. Technology is there to support the experience, not to decorate it.

Pictures and models on this site come from the games themselves. Games still in development are labelled that way.

How we build

Every IWAMENT game uses one 3D pipeline. A Python generator builds each asset in Blender: characters are sculpted, painted and baked, rigged and animated in code, then checked by automated gates for colour, budget, texel density and clipping before they go into Unreal Engine.

Because the pipeline is code, a character can be rebuilt from the same script, changed, and checked again, and the same rules hold across every game. The characters on this site are those same models, running in your browser.

• Blender for generation, sculpting, baking and animation
• Unreal Engine for the games
• Python for the generators and the gates
• three.js for the live models on this site

What changed

Iwament Limited was incorporated on 20 September 2022. The company used to present itself as a software delivery partner. It now makes and owns its own games, starting with HD Games. Ideas still being explored, such as mathematics, computational thinking, science and language, stay labelled as directions until a game exists.