thesis
hyperliminal is a product-led game company.
We are hyperfocused with rigid constraints so that we can ship early and often, optimizing towards the path of least resistance to having fun with others.
We are hyperfocused with rigid constraints so that we can ship early and often, optimizing towards the path of least resistance to having fun with others.
constraints
constraints
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the game is a vehicle for emergent fun with others
- the game does not take itself too seriously
- we hyperoptimize for the social experience, the game is a backdrop
- we do not spend years working on art, music or narrative if it doesn't directly contribute to the social experience
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be where people already meet
- we are building experiences inside platforms where people hang out today
- existing "third spaces" like Discord, Twitch, Facebook and YouTube have rich and active communities
- we leverage all the platform has to offer (e.g. social APIs, features, best practices)
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unlock novel game mechanics with emergent technologies
- today's low cost compute and LLMs unlock experiences previously not possible
experiences
We're building social-first experiences (read: games) optimized for the platforms where people already hang out.
name:
Office Heist
genre:
Social Deduction / Party / Strategy
platform:
REDACTED
Office Heist is a hyperfun social deduction game that takes a minute to learn and 15 minutes to play. It's built specifically for social platforms to be played in realtime with friends whilst on voice chat.
btw there's more where that came from ;)
team
ex: Meta Unity
name:
Niall
what do:
Engineering / Product
industry experience:
12.5 years
bio:
Niall has over 10 years experience building gaming platforms at scale. At Facebook, he led partner engineering for Instant Games in EMEA and worked with 100s of game developers to build, ship and scale games to hundreds of millions of users. Afterwards, he joined Luna Labs as the first exec hire, Luna was acquired less than 2 years later for >$100M and is now part of Unity.
trivia:
Dropped out of school at 17 to work in tech, using money earned building a digital twin of his school in Second Life.
ex: Meta Unity
name:
You?
what do:
Engineer / Artist / Something Else
industry experience:
who cares
bio:
Somebody who feels strongly compelled to build things millions of people genuinely love. Somebody with strong opinions, weakly held.
contact
If you want to learn more, come build with us, or just say hi, we'd love to hear from you.