Smug Face Gaming is a tiny independent studio. Three games in flight, all built in Godot, all shipped from the same room: a one-tap flyer for phones, a deckbuilding rogue-lite about doing chores for money, and a factory sim about grinding skills.
One tap. 24 realms. One long run.
A 3D chase-cam flappy flyer. You fly behind your bird and tap to thread the gate rushing at you, through twenty-four realms that cross-fade from plains to open ocean to deep space — then loop. One continuous journey, one score, and the only question that matters: how far past your best did you get?
Nobody’s chosen one.
A deckbuilding rogue-lite in a kingdom that pays by the task. Half your deck is combat; the other half is chores — swinging a pickaxe, gutting a fish, chopping a tree — that happen to hurt when aimed at a goblin. Ore and fish are both card fuel and shop currency, so the greedy line and the safe line are genuinely different decks.
Automate the grind.
A factory-automation sim about levelling skills the long way round. Auto-miners on copper rock, belts into furnaces, bars into an anvil works, and a bank chest that turns the lot into coins — then do it again two tiers up. Every sprite is generated procedurally at runtime, so the whole game ships with no art files at all.
A fan project. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Jagex, and it contains no Jagex assets.
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Three games at once is only possible because none of them is trying to be big. Each one picks a single idea, builds the smallest thing that proves it, and then gets polished until it feels good in the hand.
One engine across a 3D endless flyer, a 2D card game and a grid-simulation factory builder. No licences to manage, no per-platform rewrite, and the tooling carries between projects.
Card faces, enemy sprites, realm scenery, machine icons — almost all of it is written as code and rendered, not drawn by hand. It means a colour change is a diff, and a new enemy is forty lines rather than a commission.
Every project has a headless test that builds every screen and plays the game to completion, plus a balance sim that plays thousands of fights and prints the win rate. A build that cannot pass those does not get shown to anybody.
These sites are static HTML on a single box we run, behind one nginx, with no trackers, no cookie banners and nothing loaded from anybody else’s CDN. Signup lists live in a file on that server and nowhere else.
One inbox, read by the person who wrote the bug. Press kits and screenshots on request — just say which game.
admin@smugfacegaming.comPlaying one of the games and something broke? The support page says what to send and goes straight to the developer.