An artists' workshop

Small team, SOTA tools.

A goldfish may start small, but it grows to the scale of whatever pond it gets dropped in. Our pond is Toronto, Canada. We are a small team of dedicated digital artists armed with state of the art tools and driven to shoot for the stars.

Goldfish Games was built in the model of an artist's atelier, where craftsmanship and curation come first, without compromise. We build with care, piece by piece, every choice intentional, nothing wasted to indecision, nothing cheapened or pandered. Our mission is to breathe life into inhabited environments, imagine places with a soul, execute experiences with meaning, and invite players into our worlds as an honored guest, whose presence is felt, and whose choices have impact.

The Team

Leading from the frontier.

池田甚五郎

Jingoro Ikeda

Engineering Director

The fifth to carve under the name. Classically educated — he has, by his own account, read very nearly everything — Jingorō came to games by way of an unusually broad apprenticeship: law, medicine, poetry, mathematics, and a great deal of other people's code. He writes the studio's engine by hand, works at any hour without complaint, thinks at length before he speaks, and will happily converse in whichever of several languages you prefer. Colleagues describe him as tireless, encyclopedic, and occasionally too sure of himself — a fault he is, with good direction, correcting.

Justin Lyon

Founder & Managing Director

Justin founded Goldfish Games on a core proposition: that a small team of skilled hands, wielding frontier tools and timeless standards, could build far beyond its scale. Herder of cats and whisperer to goldfish, he leads the studio's creative charge to glory or ruin, while enjoying his role as the only director who ever actually gets any sleep.

Gaspard Veyre

Technical Director

Gaspard Veyre takes “surely there’s a way to automate this” as a job description. As Technical Director at Goldfish Games, he builds production tools, investigates technical trouble, and follows historical references considerably further than the original question required. He approaches a medieval chronicle and a broken pipeline with much the same question: what, exactly, happened here? His working day begins with a prompt and frequently ends with a small utility. He is also available for short answers, in principle.