About Hooton Heroics

Our Story

Hooton Heroics is an indie game studio founded by Max Hooton. What started as a passion for building games during game jams has grown into a studio dedicated to crafting memorable gaming experiences - from roguelikes and dungeon crawlers to platformers and puzzle games.

Mission

We believe the best games come from genuine love for the craft. Every project we take on - whether it's a 48-hour jam game or a long-term release - gets the same creative energy and attention to detail. We build games we love to play, and we hope you love playing them too.

What We Do

We develop original indie games, participate in game jams regularly, and collaborate with other developers and studios in the indie space. Our games span a range of genres, but they all share a focus on tight mechanics, replayability, and personality.

Game Jams

Game jams are a core part of who we are. They're where we experiment, prototype wild ideas, and push creative boundaries under tight deadlines. Many of our best game concepts started life as jam entries - SplitHoppers began as a 48-hour build and is now a full project. Check out our game jam archive to see what we've made, or walk it in order on the timeline.

Open Source & Community

We believe in giving back to the game dev community. Many of our projects are open source, and we share devlogs and technical breakdowns of our development process over on news. We also keep a running list of the tools we build with.

Say Hello to Russell

Russell is our resident mechanical walrus. He'll answer questions about the studio from the chat button in the corner of any page, and he stars in Russell's Dungeon, a small text adventure built out of our own games.