AV Therapy Studio

High concept, low fidelity.

Our in-house game team crafts immersive, restorative experiences that blend art, music, and systems thinking.

Featured Project

Scapia (Playdate)

An expressive art-game RPG for Playdate that invites introspection through layered puzzles.

Scapia weaves reflective narrative beats into tile-by-tile puzzle adventures, encouraging players to discover magic in everyday rituals. Puzzles stand in for combat, NPCs offer meaningful choices, and each revisit to familiar places reveals new lore and perspective.

Exploration with consequence — every choice nudges future events and story vignettes.
Living lore — cultures, subcultures, and hidden histories surface through art, dialogue, and sound.
Puzzle-first design — every mechanic reinforces a unified ruleset that never breaks from the core play loop.
Meaningful revisits — evolving NPC routes, optional challenges, and new insights keep each return trip fresh.

Status

Playable prototype complete; preparing a broader 2026 release.

Interested in playtesting? Email us at info@av-therapy.com.

Follow development on the Playdate forums: Scapia Dev Log.

Core Team

Meet the Crew

Avery Pound

Creative Lead

Designs the play experience while stitching together code, art, and music so the team moves in sync.

Braulio Viveros

Programmer

Builds systems, tools, and gameplay polish that keeps Project Steady responsive and alive.

Adelene Villarreal

Artist

Shapes the visual world—from environments to characters—with a tactile, hand-painted feel.

Cooper Grosscup

Composer

Scores the journey with themes that evolve alongside the player’s story.

Signature Motifs

The Texture of Scapia

Self-Reflection as Magic

Mirrors are more than portals—they're the language of wisdom. Each blink feels like paging through a spellbook penned by the player.

Agency with Consequence

Multiple threads tug at once: help family, chase lore, or follow a mischiev’s dare. Whichever you pull becomes canon.

Lore Beneath the Surface

Town gossip, swamp legends, and palindromes in the plaza hint at histories you unravel at your own pace.

Puzzles as Ritual

Statues, runes, and mirrored paths weave one consistent grammar so brainy moments stay grounded in the story world.

In Development

What’s Brewing Next

Steady

A mindful, turn-based world you tend to in spare moments.

Steady is built for lunchtime turns and between-meeting breaths: rich simulation under the hood, gentle prompts on the surface. Players drop in, take a meaningful action, and watch elaborate ecosystems respond over time—it’s the depth of a colony sim with the cadence of caring for a companion.

Status

In vertical slice production with first-look demos planned for 2026.