Dash Again Studios is a small, independent studio. We're prototyping two demos — a messenger network you can pull apart, and a Bomberman that takes to the open road. Built deliberately, shipped honestly.
// Messenger network simulator
Route messages across a living network of nodes. Reroute around outages, throttle floods before they cascade, and keep an entire grid talking as it strains under load. A quiet game about the systems we usually take for granted.
// A road-like take on Bomberman
Classic bomb-laying tactics, reimagined across a procedural grid of city streets. Open shortcuts through traffic, trap rivals at intersections, and outpace the board before gridlock closes in. Fast to learn, hard to put down.
Dash Again Studios is an independent studio founded in 2025. We're a small team that cares more about how a game behaves than how loudly it launches. We build deliberately — prototyping in the open, cutting what doesn't earn its place, and shipping when the work is honest.
We're drawn to games about systems: networks, grids, and the emergent moments that appear when simple rules are left to interact. Our two current demos are early, but they share a spine — readable mechanics, fair difficulty, and respect for a player's time.
There's no publisher pulling the strings and no roadmap we didn't write ourselves. Just a small group building the kind of games we want to exist.
We'd rather a mechanic surprise you on the hundredth hour than the first. Depth is designed, not decorated.
We release when the work stands on its own — no manufactured hype, no promises we can't keep.
Readable rules, fair difficulty, and no busywork. Every system should earn the attention it asks for.
We prototype publicly and share the messy middle. The process is part of the work, not a secret to guard.
Notes on modelling cascading outages without punishing the player for the simulation's honesty — and the small UI tells that make a collapse readable.
How swapping a static arena for a grid of city streets turned a familiar formula into something with its own rhythm and tells.
On staying small on purpose, the decisions that buys us, and why we'd rather answer to players than a roadmap.
Press, collaboration, or just curious about the work — the door's open. We read everything and reply to what we can.
lionel@dashagain.co.uk