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Studio Active · June 2026 // Est. February 18, 2000

BOLDHAT®

Game Design · Development · Publication

Twenty-six years of building worlds that don't let go. From the Garage Games and Tribes engine era to Unreal Engine 5 and AI-augmented production — one studio, one trademark, one philosophy: build worlds worth inhabiting.

Our Games ConOps21™ Franchise About the Studio
Current Title
ConOps21™
Build Status
Demo In Progress
Steam Game
App #4604230
Steam Demo
App #4605790
Status
Demo In Production
Engine
Unreal Engine 5.6
Founded
Feb 18, 2000
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26
Years in Game Dev
UE5
Current Engine
12
Book Series Arc
2026
Demo In Production

Garage Games · Tribes Engine Era
BoldHat® was established before "indie" was a category. Built in the Tribes-engine years through GarageGames — the roots modern small-team development grew from. That DNA is in every build we ship.

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CURRENT TITLE

Book 1 · Available Now
ConOps21: Subversion Protocol — Black Signal book cover
Coming to Steam · Pending Review Follow on Steam →
BoldHat™ Published · Reality String™ IP
CONOPS21™
Subversion Protocol · Black Signal
Prestige Interactive Drama · UE5 · LLM NPCs
Detroit: Become Human × Disco Elysium × Oxenfree
Genre
Prestige Interactive Drama
Engine
Unreal Engine 5.6
Platform
Steam · PC / Linux
Demo Status
Pending Valve Review
Author
DC Davies
Price
$19.99 – $24.99

In a near-future where Dominion Corp controls reality through neural-integrated AR, a fractured cell intercepts a signal that should not exist. ConOps21 is the prestige TV of gaming — designed to convert literary readers and non-gamers as much as it rewards franchise veterans. Book One is live on Amazon. The game is in production.

No indie is doing prestige literary interactive drama with live LLM NPCs and franchise ARG architecture. Detroit is AAA. Disco Elysium is text-heavy RPG. ConOps21 is the gap between them.

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LLM NPC Layer
Hyde + Mara · Local Phi-4 Mini · No External Calls
ARG Integration
subject21.cc · Live
Series Arc
12 Books · 1 Canon
Demo Status
In Production · Pages Under Review
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WHAT WE BUILD

Game Design

IP-first concept development, narrative systems architecture, world-building, and GDD production. We build games that justify a franchise before we write a line of code.

Development

Unreal Engine 5 development with AI-augmented production stacks — LLM NPC integration, Ink/Inkpot narrative layers, Claude Code pipelines, and solo-dev-to-ship methodology.

Publication

Game publishing under the BoldHat™ mark. Steam store management, demo pipeline, and platform-first release strategy for indie-scale budgets.

eSports

Competitive play infrastructure and community development under BoldHat.gg — the dedicated eSports division. Building toward affiliate and partner milestones.

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LIVE ON TWITCH

boldhatgames

Home of the Wasteland Broadcasting Service — BoldHat's voice-only broadcast network, hosted by The Signal Keeper. Five channels on one dial: ConOps21™ field tests, Witcher Wednesday, Fallout Friday, shooters, survival builders, and live dev sessions.

WBS · Voice-Only Broadcast Network
corticalmesh

Science Saturdays — AGI research, neuromorphic computing, and the technical architecture behind ConOps21's LLM NPC stack. Where gaming and real science overlap.

Saturdays — Science & Research
ConOps21 Book One cover
Available Now · Amazon KDP
ConOps21: Subversion Protocol — Black Signal
By DC Davies · Published by ACME Book Company™ LLC · Book 1 of 12 · Paperback + Kindle from $4.99
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GET IN THE GAME.

Book One is live. The Steam pages are submitted. The signal has started.

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