Studio lead
Sets the direction, keeps the scope honest, and makes the final call on what ships.
A small team that ships.
Diet Bloxy Cola is a small, independent game studio in New York. We make original games on Roblox and keep working on them long after they launch.
Independent, on purpose.
We started Diet Bloxy Cola to make our own games, with their own ideas and their own reasons to come back. Not copies of whatever is trending.
So we stayed small. We own our games, we run our own community, and we listen to the people who actually play. When something feels off, the person who can fix it is right there. When something works, we build on it the same day.
Right now we are heads down on Shoplifters. It is the first of a few games we want to make, and we would rather get it right than rush it out.
Based inNYC
StudioIndependent
Right nowBuilding Shoplifters
How we make games
Four things go into everything we ship. They are the reason a Diet Bloxy Cola game feels like one.
1
Original games
We make our own characters, worlds, and ideas. We do not copy whatever trended last week.
2
We listen to players
We ship, watch how people play, read the comments, and push updates fast.
3
It has to feel good
How a game controls and feels comes first. We obsess over the first minute of play.
4
We sweat the details
Sound, animation, and the little touches. That is the part players remember.
Who does what
No middle layers. The people who make the calls are the people building the game.
Gameplay
Owns the first minute of play: the controls, the pacing, and why you press play again.
Art and animation
Makes the games clear at a glance and fun to look at, from cans to characters.
Engineering
Keeps the game fast and fair, and builds the systems that make it all work.
Community
Runs the playtests and brings player feedback back to the team.
Sound and QA
Sound design and the last ten percent, the part you cannot name but always feel.
Like how we work?
We hire rarely, but we always read a good pitch. Tell us what you would build with us.