Major-franchise judgment
Our proposed team brings experience from large online worlds, action games, progression systems, and live operations.
Built for worlds with devoted readers
The team to build the game this world deserves.
Ten senior developers. Credits spanning World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, WildStar, Dungeons & Dragons Online, Fable Legends, and other shipped games. One focused proposition: let us build The Primal Hunter game with its creator at the table.
Private rights proposal
Prepared for Zogarth & Aethon
10person core team
6+major franchises represented
Seniorcontributors throughout
1canon-first standard
Selected experience across our proposed team
WildStar
Dungeons & Dragons Online
World of Warcraft
Call of Duty
Fable Legends
The Oregon Trail Mobile
Online worlds, shipped systems, live operations
Credits represent individual team members’ prior work. Roles and contributions vary by title. Full credits are available during diligence.
Why Oathwild // Why this universe
Experience to ship it. Restraint to protect it.
A universe built around agency
Paths, skills, professions, hunting, discovery, and consequence already speak the language of player-driven systems.
Earn trust before scale
Start with the author and rights holders, agree on the boundaries, then prove the experience in a focused playable slice.
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The studio
Senior enough to know what breaks. Hungry enough to build differently.
Oathwild brings ten veteran developers together across gameplay, engineering, systems design, art, production, QA, community, and commercial strategy. This is the senior core required to turn a beloved progression-fantasy universe into a game players will champion.
Across the team are credits on World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, WildStar, Dungeons & Dragons Online, Fable Legends, and The Oregon Trail Mobile. We know online worlds, progression systems, combat, live operations, and the production realities behind major franchises.
For a beloved literary universe, that means beginning with the author, the canon, and the player promise before choosing scope or technology.
Canon is a design constraint, not a marketing layer.
Author access, lore review, and clear approval gates belong inside production from day one.
Progression must change how the player thinks.
Levels alone are not growth. Builds, choices, preparation, and mastery must create identity.
Fans are early design intelligence.
Prototype with the readers who know every rule, then earn a wider action-RPG audience.
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Exploratory world direction
Direction studies // not final character designs
Gods should feel like forces of the multiverse.
A faithful game needs more than recognizable names. Villy’s ancient menace, Stormild’s joyful catastrophe, and Eversmile’s quiet manipulation should change the player’s sense of scale before any of them speaks.
Villy
The Malefic ViperAncient alchemist, schemer, and catastrophe in reserve.
Stormild
Lightning, wind, and fireA colossal elemental bird whose joy makes destruction feel effortless.
Eversmile
Karmic influenceAn ancient observer turns unseen manipulation into a readable visual language.
These images are original, unofficial pitch studies created to communicate tone and scale. They are not authorized designs, and they deliberately leave final visual authorship to Zogarth and the rights holders.
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The adaptation thesis
Working direction // subject to rights-holder collaboration
The fantasy is not watching power grow. It is earning a Path.
Our opening thesis is a systems-driven action RPG that translates the series’ preparation, dangerous discovery, meaningful progression, and sharp combat into player agency. The exact format should be decided with the people who understand the universe best.
PILLAR // 01
Knowledge should be a weapon.
Track, read, prepare, and commit. Encounters become more rewarding when perception and planning create the opening, rather than a larger number alone.
- Readable prey behavior and ecology
- Preparation with meaningful tradeoffs
- Combat that rewards decisive execution
PILLAR // 02
A build is a statement of identity.
Classes, professions, skills, and evolutions should combine into distinct playstyles with real opportunity cost and visible mastery.
- Synergistic choices rather than flat upgrades
- Build-defining evolution moments
- Space for discovery, experimentation, and surprise
PILLAR // 03
The multiverse must feel larger than the player.
Scale comes from rules, consequence, and things glimpsed before they can be understood, rather than from filling a map with repetitive markers.
- Dangerous spaces with systemic stories
- Factions with legible motives and power
- Discovery that reframes earlier assumptions
PILLAR // 04
Expand only where trust has been earned.
A game adaptation should create room for player agency without flattening the source or treating established lore as optional.
- Author-led lore and tone review
- Explicit boundaries for new characters and events
- No public promise before rights and vision align
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A disciplined first step
Conversation before production. Alignment before scope.
We are not asking for a blind license. We are asking for the chance to listen, establish boundaries, and determine whether the creative and commercial fit is real.
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Rights & vision call
Understand goals, boundaries, audience, approvals, and what success means to Zogarth and Aethon.
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Mutual concept brief
Turn shared priorities into genre, platform, scope, audience, and business-model options.
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Proof, not promises
Agree on a bounded prototype or vertical-slice plan with decision gates and transparent costs.
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The people at the table
A compact senior core with the range to ship.
Two named leads, eight veteran collaborators, and a production model designed to add specialists only when the game demands them.
Co-founder // Studio & product lead
Andrew Stafford
Game executive and product leader. Served as CTO and CCO of Pixels.xyz, helping build the game from zero to 1.3 million users and leading through the PIXEL token launch. The token reached a peak fully diluted valuation above $5 billion. Now focused on turning ambitious worlds into executable products.
Co-founder // Technical lead
Bill McFadden
Senior software engineer and technical lead with deep game-systems experience, including credited engineering work on Dungeons & Dragons Online and its Menace of the Underdark expansion.
The wider core // Eight collaborators
Built across disciplines, not silos.
Senior contributors across gameplay and platform engineering, systems and content design, art, production, QA, community, and commercial strategy. Named roster and role commitments available during diligence.
The proposal to Zogarth & Aethon
Give us the chance to earn this world.
Put our veteran team in a room with the people who know The Primal Hunter best. Give us thirty minutes to listen, show how we think, and determine whether Oathwild is the right team to take the first disciplined step.
No public announcement. No unauthorized production. Rights and creative alignment come first.
WHAT OATHWILD BRINGS
Ten senior developers, major-franchise experience, a canon-first production model, and the judgment to prove the idea before scaling it.
- Format
- Private rights and vision discussion
- First proof
- Bounded concept brief or vertical-slice plan
- Standard
- Author access and explicit lore approval gates