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Original Games

You want a game with a physical, communal soul — one people gather around — and a way to bring it to your audience.

Fever Tilt is the flagship: a zero-G arena sport born on a real arcade table at Noisebridge, stress-tested weekly in live play, with a 32-player tournament system built in. The audience equity we build here is what makes every other door credible. There are three ways in.

The offers

Fever Tilt — Early Access

Premium on SteamEA now · full launch to follow
  • A finished, ruthless 1v1 zero-G arena sport, live in Early Access
  • A public EA roadmap you can hold us to
  • A portion of net revenue pledged to the Noisebridge 501(c)(3) where the game was born
  • Weekly live playtests you can actually show up to

Buy once, own it — no subscription, no season pass, no loot boxes.

Wishlist Fever Tilt on Steam

Tournament Night, Produced

$4,500 / event+ travel · venue residencies from $2,500/night
  • The Fever Tilt table and 32-player bracket portal, brought to your venue or event
  • Live stats, slow-motion replays, and a filmed recap you keep
  • On-site production and hosting for the night
  • Wishlist and lead capture instrumented into the event

Bay Area first, until the gear list and pricing prove out.

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Publisher / Fund Partnership

Pitch packageEvaluated against dev-favored terms
  • The full Fever Tilt pitch: build, traction, tournament flywheel, and the A.P.E.S. universe frame
  • Sized for funds actively deploying — Outersloth, Blue Ocean, Kowloon Nights, Vgames, Epic MegaGrants
  • Terms weighed against Voyer-normal advances and dev-favored splits
  • A property that can stand on its own, and be taken forward by a larger partner

A partner who adds distribution muscle without taking the soul.

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Proof, not adjectives

Maker Faire Editor's Choice 2025 · Steam Early Access Fever Tilt Zero-G Arena Sport View the case › 26 games × 35 sourced dimensions Indie Game Analysis Data-Driven Games Research View the case › 48-hour game jam → playable in the browser Bubble Up! Global Game Jam 2025 View the case › Playable custom StarCraft II ladder map Scoundrel's Cove II map for Starcraft II Interactive View the case › Shipped 2019 · playable in the browser Silver Nickel: Whistleblower Summer Slow Jams 2019 View the case ›

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How it works

A tournament night runs on the Lab’s exit-criteria discipline, compressed into one evening:

  1. Hold the date. You tell us audience size, venue, and whether it’s filmed; we send a fixed quote and hold the slot. Exit: signed quote and a locked date.
  2. Load-in and calibrate. Table, ships, and bracket portal set up and tested on your floor. Exit: a green-light run of a full match on-site.
  3. Run the bracket. Up to 32 players, live stats and replays on the big screen, hosted end to end. Exit: a champion, and every seat filled at least once.
  4. Recap and hand off. Filmed recap, the bracket results, and whatever leads or wishlists the night captured. Exit: recap delivered; capture data in your hands.

Fit / not-fit

This is for you if

  • You program events and want genuine competitive play, not a rented arcade cabinet
  • You’re a fund or publisher scouting differentiated multiplayer with a live audience already forming
  • You have a room — a barcade, a campus, a conference floor — and a night to fill
  • You care that the game was made by a real person, on purpose

We're probably not your studio if

  • You want a white-label game reskinned with your logo — that’s a Branded Play conversation, not this one
  • You need a mobile free-to-play title with a live-ops team behind it
  • You want us to grow a studio past the point where one person can keep full attention on the work
  • Your timeline needs a AAA content pipeline; we ship complete, focused expressions

Book a tournament night

Four quick questions and we send a fixed quote with a held date. A month or a range beats a false-precise day.

Prefer to talk first? Ask for a 20-minute fit call in the form and we’ll send a time.

Do you want a filmed recap? *
Anything else? (optional)
Where to reach you
No form? Send it as an email instead.

Copy the template, fill in the blanks, and send it to hi@outrightmental.com. One person reads every note and replies within two business days.

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Questions people ask

How is a tournament night priced?
$4,500 covers production and hosting for one event; travel is billed on top, and repeat nights at the same venue drop to a $2,500/night residency rate. It’s a fixed price for a fixed scope, not an hourly estimate.
Who owns the footage and the leads?
You do. The filmed recap and any wishlist or lead capture from the night are yours to use. We may ask to feature highlights in the studio’s own reel — you can say no.
What if we want changes to the format?
Small format tweaks (bracket size, round length, house rules) are part of the night. Anything that needs new software — a custom mode, branded overlays — is a change order we scope and price before we start, so there are no surprises.
What happens with a fund or publisher deal?
The pitch package is the start of a conversation, not a term sheet. We evaluate any partnership against dev-favored norms and one test: does it add distribution without taking the soul? Self-funded Early Access remains the base case, so no deal is made from a position of need.