SMIDVELD STUDIO

Independent software & game studio / Est. 2026

Useful tools.Strange worlds.

Forged after hours.

Smidveld is my studio for building the software I needed and the games I wanted to play.

Enter the work
A luminous blue glass anvil with its reflection
01Sagaveldfor the storykeepersActive development02Hugfestafor crowded mindsActive development03Game Overfor nostalgic strategistsDemo playable

THE WORK / THREE PRODUCTS

A story worth keeping. A mind given room. A strategy world built to outlive its first set of rules.

01 / STORYKEEPING SOFTWARE

Sagaveld

FOR THE STORYKEEPERS

Your table's story, kept.

Sagaveld records your tabletop session, preserves its people and lore, and turns the night into a written chapter.

Visit Sagaveld
Anya, Bryn, Marin, Kestra, Alarick, Brakkus, and Aurelius sharing a firelit camp
THE PALE WELD / CAMPAIGN MEMORYThe table ends. The saga remains.

02 / PERSONAL TASK SOFTWARE

Hugfesta

FOR CROWDED MINDS

One honest next step.

Hugfesta turns a crowded ramble into one clear next step—and welcomes you back without guilt when life interrupts.

IN DEVELOPMENT

THE GARDEN / RETURN WITHOUT DEBTNothing broke while you were away.
Hugfesta's gold engraved tree with visible roots

03 / STRATEGY GAME

Game Over

FOR NOSTALGIC STRATEGISTS

Three ways to play.

Game Over is a modern strategy world for tower defense, hero battles, and player-made modes—beginning with the playable Hollow Front demo.

Play Hollow Front
Jason, Brakkus, Anya, Kuri, and Serina encircled by raiders and the Hollowed

THE MODES / THREE WAYS IN

One shared world.
Three distinct games.

01

Playable now

Hollow Front

Build the route, place defenders, and survive the waves.

02

In development

Warband

Fast, hero-led battles with the energy of classic custom maps.

03

Planned

Forge Mode

Create maps, rules, and entirely new ways to play.

HOLLOW FRONT / PLAYABLE NOW

The front is live.

Build the line, command your heroes, and hold through twenty waves in the first playable Game Over mode.

LIVE BUILD / DESKTOPCLICK INSIDE TO PLAY
Hollow Front tower-defense gameplay during an active waveOpen the playable demo Open Hollow Front full screen

THE STUDIO / FOUNDER'S NOTE

Built in the hours
that were mine.

I work in healthcare. It is meaningful work, and it can be exhausting. Smidveld began in the hours after—when the day was finally mine. I wanted more freedom, more room to play, and a place to build the ideas I kept wishing existed.

Sagaveld came from wanting our tabletop stories to survive the night. Hugfesta came from wanting a task system that helped without becoming another source of pressure. Game Over came from missing strategy games that trusted players with enough freedom to surprise even their creators.

I have spent years using software and thinking: this could be clearer, more thoughtful, more useful. Eventually, I stopped waiting for someone else to make it.

Everything at Smidveld is built with one goal: when you use something I have made, I want you to feel the thought and care behind every choice.

Jacob Founder / Smidveld

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