Helm

A studio for playable worlds

HelmGames you can feel.

Describe the adventure. Helm draws the cast, builds the stages, and hands you something people can actually play.

No engine to install. No code to write.

A real game, running right here. Move your cursor to take over.

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Deal Flow

A 2-minute runner where you are a VC navigating deal flow chaos — grab the signal, ignore the noise.

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The cast

Every sprite is drawn for your game.

Not clip art, not a stock pack. Characters, effects, and props are generated to your art direction, animated frame by frame, and checked before they reach the engine.

  • Wanderer

    8-frame walk

  • Runner

    8-frame run

  • Brute

    8-frame attack

  • Arcane burst

    7-frame loop

  • Portraits

    5 expressions

  • Detonation

    8-frame loop

Choose a world

Pick a mood. Helm builds the game around it.

Platformers, runners, story games, puzzlers, and more — each with art that belongs in the same universe.

Platformer

Side-scroll adventures

Jump, explore, and chase the exit across handcrafted stages.

Arcade

Score-chasing cabinets

Fast rounds, rising multipliers, one more run energy.

Visual Novel

Story and choice

Characters, dialogue branches, and scenes that stick with people.

Endless Runner

Endless momentum

Keep moving, dodge danger, grab every pickup you can.

Puzzle

Clever grids

Tiles, logic, and that quiet click when the board finally opens.

Shoot-em-up

Bullet skies

Patterns, power-ups, and satisfying fireworks on every clear.

The path

Three beats from idea to play.

  1. 01

    Say the game out loud

    A sentence is enough. Genre, vibe, the feeling you want players to leave with.

  2. 02

    Watch the world arrive

    Characters, levels, and juice assemble into something you can click into.

  3. 03

    Play, then share

    Try it in the browser. Tweak it. Hand friends a public play link.

Your turn

The next favorite 2D game can start tonight.

Plans start at $15. Art draws from your Limn Pigment. You leave with a game people can actually play.