About Index Expressions
We’re a small independent studio that makes games and apps, and we’re setting the company up at the moment.
Who we are
Index Expressions is a small independent studio. Outer Index, a top-down pixel-art game, is where all of this started, and since then we’ve added three more games and an app for writers.
Most of our games are played in runs. You go as far as you can, and when a run ends you start again somewhere new. Each game has a setting of our own, from the mines and caves of Alderen to the rainy clerical city of Inner Datum.
What we make
Alderen and Outer Index 3D are in development. Inner Datum is in closed pre-alpha with fewer than ten players, and Outer Index is on hold while other work comes first. We plan to come back to it.
LoreIE is our first app, a plot and story continuity engine for people writing long-form fiction. It hasn’t been released yet.
How we work
We make a lot of our own tools. The biggest is our game editor, where the game keeps running while we change it. Pixelforge, our pixel-art studio, lives inside the editor, and so does Voxel Studio, which builds creatures for Alderen from a seed.
Our engine’s rendering layer is derived from the Godot Engine’s MIT-licensed source. The credits page lists Godot along with the other work we build on.
Setting up the company
We’re in the middle of setting Index Expressions up as a company. A few things will appear on the site once that’s done, such as a contact address, and we’ll keep adding pages as there’s more to put on them.
Follow along
We don’t have a mailing list yet, so the news page is the place to find our updates. The gallery has pictures from our builds and tools if you’d like to see how things look so far.