An independent studio
Small armies.
Unsolved mysteries.
Big imaginations.
Games and creative apps, each sparked by something we want to make. Welcome to Forge Explore.
Meet the projectsOn our workbench
Two games. One creative app.
America in miniature
Toy armies. Real decisions.
Modern toy armies. A colorful tabletop map. A big strategy game about scouting your rivals, growing your towns, and knowing when to advance—or hold your ground.
Explore Tin EmpiresThe game, the board, and what’s next.Scout before you strike. Better information makes battle forecasts more precise.
Grow towns and gather the resources that keep your armies moving.
Battles reward preparation and the right counters, rather than dice rolls.
More about Tin Empires
Start with a scattered foothold, connect your territories, and decide what you can actually hold. Push again after a victory while your army still has movement, or stop before the frontier stretches too far. America is the first map; the ambition is a strategy game that can grow beyond it.
Hôtel Orphée · French RivieraTheParallax
Files
One hotel. More than one history.
A journalist disappears during a 1988 gala. Enter historical moments at Hôtel Orphée, explore rooms that no longer exist, and reconstruct what happened.
Move through the hotel as it existed then, with its old rooms and hidden routes.
Pause, rewind, and observe the same event from a different place.
Compare people, places, and architecture across the hotel’s changing history.
More about The Parallax Files
The first case follows journalist Juliette Moreau’s disappearance. The hotel’s opening in 1929, a fire in 1956, renovation in 1974, and separate recordings from 1988 all leave traces in 2026. You are present in these reconstructions, but history cannot perceive you. Finding the right time is only part of understanding the mystery.
A little imagination goes a long way
DoodleBloom
Little ideas. Big color.
A coloring app for little imaginations. Pick a picture, choose a brush, and make it yours with a finger or Apple Pencil. Or create a new page with a grown-up.
A little more DoodleBloomMeet the app and find your happy colors.Magic mode keeps a stroke inside its region. Free mode lets it wander.
Markers, crayons, pencils, brushes, and a colorful library of ready-to-color pages.
A grown-up can help turn an idea into a new coloring page. Save it and keep creating.
More about DoodleBloom
Start with bundled pages that work offline, return to saved drawings, and use undo and redo while you experiment. Magic, Free and Fill offer different ways to color. Export a picture to share or print, with grown-up controls around page creation and family settings.
Project hero images are promotional artwork. Expand the project details to see available gameplay and app captures.
The studio
Made from
personal curiosity.
Forge Explore makes games and creative apps driven by feeling and personal taste. Sometimes that means a miniature strategy board. Sometimes a mystery across time. Sometimes a page waiting for color.
The projects don’t need to share a genre. They start with something we want to make—and see where it takes us.
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