STELLAR_LABS / EST_2024 / INDEPENDENT
Odds are you’veplayed a gamewe built, scaled, or ran.
Now we build creator-led games: distinct worlds, connected by a studio designed to move between them.
PROOF_LIBRARY / 01
Games our team built, scaled, or ran.
Selected work across console, mobile, and live operations. Choose a title to inspect the record.
01 / CREATOR PARTNERSHIPS
WORLD_A → WORLD_B
Now we produce games for creators. streamers. youtubers. you.
You’ve built an audience. We help you expand your engagement by bringing your world(s) to life.
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01INPUT
Your world
You bring the IP, the characters, and the audience that already loves them.
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02ENGINE
Our craft
We bring a team of game veterans, custom technology, full production, and the funding to build it.
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03CONTROL
Your call
It stays your game. You hold the creative last word, start to finish.
02 / PRODUCTION PATH
CONTACT → LAUNCH
From your IP to a live game.
We find the fun, build everything custom, and ship it. The process is legible at every point; you stay in the loop as much as you want.
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FIT_CHECK
Contact
Give us a shout and we’ll let you know if there’s a fit.
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SEARCH_SPACE
Explore
Exploratory prototyping. We build, iterate, and find the fun together.
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FULL_BUILD
Produce
We build it for real: engine, tools, pipelines, art, design, and everything around them.
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LIVE_STATE
Launch
We ship it, then operate and grow it with you.
One studio moving through four states.
The work changes position. The relationship stays visible.
03 / WHY NOW
CULTURE_SHIFT / ACTIVE
Hollywood started backing creator worlds. We do that for games.
Creators have never had more reach. The worlds and characters with the most devoted audiences increasingly start with creators, not studios.
EXTERNAL_REFERENCE / VARIETY
FIELD_NOTE / 2026
Why YouTubers Are Turning Hollywood Upside Down
Variety spoke with Hollywood producers, filmmakers, distributors and YouTube executives about the creator-made horror films reshaping the industry.
Read the story ↗CREATOR_FILMS / SIGNAL_SET
Creator-made worlds picked up for full production.
Games are the world’s biggest entertainment medium: bigger than film and music combined. Billions of people play.
Yet game development hasn’t shifted in twenty years.
It’s what Hollywood did for creators on film. We do it for games.
See it in the making.
We’re building one right now, in the open with our first creator partner: a living, work-in-progress case study of exactly how this goes, week by week.
View the work-in-progress case study05 / OPEN A CHANNEL
PARTNERS / TALENT / PRESS
Talk to us.
Bring us a world and an audience. Tell us about yourself and we’ll let you know if there’s a fit.
06 / WHO WE ARE
SMALL CORE / SPECIALIST NETWORK
Players first.
Builders always.
We’ve spent our lives as players and our careers as builders. We love games as a medium.
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FOUNDER_01 / EXTERNAL
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FOUNDER_02 / TECHNICAL
Mike McManus
in ↗Co-founder
3× founder and CTO. His last studio, Savage Game Studios, was acquired by PlayStation in 2022.
Stellar Labs is 100% independent and wholly owned, founded in January 2024. We’re a small core team that works on every project, and for each title we build a bespoke, specialized team from our network. We share the profits with everyone involved.