We engineer tools that build games and make art ;]

SUBSTR8.Games is an independent art and games studio owned by Giz, an opinionated, full-stack, independent kernel architect and software engineer from Los Angeles, CA.

SUBSTR8.Games exercises its right to harshly critique and outright reject the assumptions and narratives of the modern software industry and entrenched legacy and legacy-style tech giants like Microsoft, Oracle, Meta, and X/SpaceX, as well as the narratives driven by lowest-common-denominator outlets and communities like Reddit and Discord, as well as social media/attention economy apparatuses like Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, X, Tiktok.

SUBSTR8.Games' mandate is to operate within the bounds of the law and without any regard whatsoever for what is perceived as normal (boring), nice (placating), friendly (deceptive), approachable (over-simplified), or otherwise deemed appropriate by those whose delicate sensibilities we might offend.

SUBSTR8.Games is not your nana's future-tech company.