A studio that ships
Implose is a small game studio and AI studio. We make our own games, run our own tools, and take a few outside builds each year.
Our Story
Implose builds the things we want to play and use. Real games and real tools that ship — every quarter, on schedule, in public.
The studio's first game, VerFall, is a persistent world experiment — dense space combat meets persistent world depth. It's live, browser-playable, and the world is still expanding every week.
Behind the game is OverSeer, our flagship AI operating layer. It runs the studio — across code, content, and operations. A small group of operators has access. It's not for sale yet.
The studio also takes on a small contract docket each year — game work, AI systems, infrastructure, native apps. Same engineers. Same bar.
Implose is part of the Liberty Design Studio family.
Behind the studio
Small team. Long memory.
Pivot
Founder & Lead Developer
Writes the world. Builds the engine. Runs OverSeer. Every system in the studio — gameplay, narrative, infra, AI — passes through here before it ships.
Pionono
Founding Developer
Full-stack builder. Ships systems end-to-end — from game logic to cloud infra. The kind of engineer who makes the impossible look routine.
Neldos
Founding Developer
Systems thinker and tooling specialist. Builds the pipelines, automates the workflows, and keeps the studio moving faster than it should.
Stromboli
Co-Founder
Sam Leibowitz. Fourth co-founder, signing on. Strategic mind with a builder's instinct — coming aboard as the final piece of the table.
Our Values
The principles that guide everything we do.
Ship over plan
Working builds beat slide decks. Every sprint ends with something playable, runnable, or shippable.
Depth over breadth
We do a small number of projects well. No fleet of half-built things to point at.
Operators not consultants
We run what we build. Our own games, our own tools — the contract work uses the same standards.
AI as default
OverSeer is in the loop on every project. It's not a feature — it's how the studio works.
How We Work
A collaborative process designed to deliver exceptional results.
Discovery
We start by understanding your business, your users, and your technical requirements. No shortcuts, no assumptions.
Strategy
We design the architecture and select the right technologies. Every decision is intentional and justified.
Build
We develop with clean code, regular demos, and continuous integration. You're involved every step of the way.
Deploy & Support
We launch your product and provide ongoing maintenance, optimization, and support.