GameLabs Ltd. A gaming agency.
We build small, sharp games with one rule: if a new player is not having fun within sixty seconds, the game is not finished. No tutorials. No menus to fight through. Pick it up, play, want another round.
First title: STIX Duel. A stickman fighter with real frame data and slow-mo knockouts.
Our games
Game 01. Available now
Stickman fighting game. Learn it in a minute, master the timing for weeks.
Six techniques, one block, and a deterministic 60 Hz fighting engine underneath. Every knockout ends in slow motion and becomes a 10-second clip you can share with one tap. Belt ladder from white to black. Drawn like a marker sketch, animated like a film.
One thumb, one second, one score to beat. In prototype.
In the labSame phone, two players, best of three. Concept stage.
In the labWe also build instant-fun games for brands, events and partners.
Talk to usHow we make games
Every GameLabs title has to pass the same test before it ships. Hand the phone to someone who has never seen the game. Start a stopwatch.
The first screen is the game. No tutorial, no sign-up wall, no settings. The controls are the obvious thing to do with a thumb.
A hit lands, a score pops, a knockout plays in slow motion. We spend most of our time on this moment: hit-stop, shake, sound, timing.
Fair systems only. Deterministic simulation, readable wind-ups, no hidden dice. Losing should feel like a lesson, not a robbery.
If they hand the phone back instead, we go back to the lab. That is the whole test, and it is the only one that matters.
The studio
GameLabs Ltd is a small gaming agency run by Michael Hensel. We prototype fast, playtest on real phones, cut everything that does not make the game feel better, and ship. The engine work is serious. The games are not.
We started in 2021 as a gaming research house. Today the research goes into one question: what makes a game feel good in the first minute, and how do we make that repeatable.
Work with us
We build playable prototypes in weeks, not quarters. Tell us the audience and the moment, and we will tell you what we would build.
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