confused_dev

A one-person game studio. The code, the pixel art, the sound and the tooling are all made in-house, which keeps the games small enough to finish and odd enough to be worth finishing.

On the workbench

Everything in development right now, with where it actually stands. Each one has its own page.

Hex Ward

An isometric management sim about running an emergency room for witches and wizards. Admit the patients, read their symptoms, staff the bays and build out the building. It keeps running while you are away, and you step in by hand whenever you want to.

Status
In development, in beta on TestFlight
Players
One
Platforms
iOS, macOS, Windows

St. Grimsby’s Thaumaturgical

First-person co-op for one to four people. You are the underqualified overnight crew of a condemned emergency room. The building is rotting, the newt is expired, and every treatment has to be pre-authorized by an insurer who would rather the patient became a chair.

Status
In development
Players
1–4 online
Platforms
PC

Rogue Shooter

A roguelike survivor played front-on rather than top-down. Between runs you rebuild the run itself in the Timeline Forge — adding bosses, corrupting events, shifting biomes — for a god who is not the mentor he says he is. The title is a working one.

Status
In development, working title
Players
One
Platforms
PC

The studio

confused_dev is the studio name of a one-person operation: one person designing, writing, drawing and scoring each game from the first prototype to the shipped build. Nothing is outsourced and nothing is licensed in, so the games take the time they take.

The studio operates as Pifer Labs LLC, an independent company in the United States. It has no publisher and takes no outside funding.

Team
One person
Engine
Godot 4
Platforms
iOS, macOS, Windows, PC
Operating as
Pifer Labs LLC
Founded
2026

Contact

Business enquiries, press and player support all reach the same desk, and a person answers.

hello@piferlabs.com

Press kits and review copies: say which game and which platform, and we will send a build.