Game development at MAD
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MAD Game Development

We're building worlds of our own.

Game development is part of who MAD is. We design and build our own games in-house alongside the rest of the studio.

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Our games

Currently in development.

This side of MAD is where we experiment, prototype and build our own ideas into complete game worlds.

Lightward: The First Light battle scene
IN DEVELOPMENT
Lightward: The First Light

Top-down action defence • Unreal Engine

Defend the light. Build the hero. Push the run further.

Lightward: The First Light is a top-down action defence game built around escalating rounds, hero progression, gear, skills and the pressure of protecting the tower at the centre of each run.

Hero-based combatRound defenceGear & progressionReplayable runs
Lightward website — coming soon

Behind the build

From systems and UI to the world around them.

Lightward is being developed as a full MAD project. Gameplay systems, progression, environments, interface design and the game's identity are all being shaped together as the project grows.

Gameplay systemsUI / HUDWorld buildingProgressionVisual identity
Lightward gameplay view
Gameplay from Lightward: The First Light.

MAD builds its own things, too

Websites and campaigns by day. Game systems and fantasy worlds whenever we can get away with it.

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