The snowpack that remembers: rebuilding Coldline's terrain persistence
We threw out our voxel snow for the third time. Here's the layered-heightfield system that finally survived a full twelve-week season without eating 40GB of save data.
Basecamp · Est. 2021
Summit Game Studios is eight people in eight states, building sincere, slightly strange games about high places — and the stubborn people who keep going up them.
People
States
Offices
Games
What we make
4,400 ftEvery Summit game starts as one stubborn mechanic someone couldn't stop prototyping. These are the ones that survived.
From the workbench
7,900 ftDevlogs go up whether the month went well or not. The posts about things that didn't work are usually the more useful ones.
Dispatches
11,500 ftRelease dates, platform news, and the occasional studio-wide decision we think you should hear from us first.
It's multiplayer, it takes place entirely above the cloud deck, and it is four people and a whiteboard. We're telling you now so we don't have to be cagey later.
The full game, all twelve creases, plus a photo mode built specifically for handheld. Existing PC owners get the new mode free on the same day.
The 2026 window was achievable with three months of overtime. We don't do that, so the date moves. Here's what's actually left to build.
Who we are
14,100 ftWe hire where the right person already lives and pay one salary band regardless of local cost of living. There is no office to come back to.
Eight people in eight states. We hire where the right person already lives, and we pay one rate regardless of local cost of living.
We move dates instead of people. Every ship date we've announced late was announced late on purpose, and we'll keep doing that.
Devlogs go up whether the month went well or not. The failed prototypes are on this site too — they're usually the more useful posts.
We've turned down growth twice. Eight is the number where everyone still knows why every decision was made.
Summit · 14,410 ft
Playtests, patch notes, and the occasional 2am screenshot of something broken and beautiful. No marketing blasts — we send when there's something real.