About Us

Creating Art Through Interactivity

We believe interactive media is a powerful vessel for emotional expression and human connection.

Our Philosophy

Based in Toronto, Canada and powered by Filipino talent, Squeak Games exists at the intersection of art and interactivity. We are an independent, artist-led studio creating interactive works rooted in artistic intent—exploring theme, affect, and form through participation.

We share our work through digital releases, festivals, and installation-ready presentations, and we may pursue commercial distribution as a practical way to sustain long-term creation. We measure success by artistic clarity and affective resonance.

We ask: Can interactive media provoke specific emotional journeys? Can systems become metaphors? Can participation become intimacy?

"The project's success is measured by whether participants leave feeling that repair is a relationship."

Research-Creation Methodology

Our development process prioritizes emotional truth over feature completeness.

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Prototype

We begin with focused experiments—testing a single interaction, a gesture, an emotional beat. These prototypes are exploratory.

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Observe

We watch how people engage with our prototypes—reading body language, pauses, and nonverbal responses.

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Revise

Based on observation, we refine. Does the companion feel present? Does restoration feel like relief rather than reward? We iterate until the affect is right.

Guiding Principles

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Affect Over Mastery

Our interactions are designed to foreground emotion rather than skill. Simple, legible cycles that prioritize how you feel over what you accomplish.

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Expressive Restraint

We convey emotion through body language, gesture, proximity, and timing. Pantomime over facial realism. Suggestion over exposition.

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Environmental Systems as Metaphor

Our environments are active participants in meaning-making. Pressure, shelter, light, and atmosphere all carry thematic weight.

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Care as Core Loop

Where others build power fantasies, we build care relationships. Assistance earned through trust. Help emerges from genuine connection.

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Accessibility & Low Pressure

No twitch demands as core mechanics. Clear nonverbal signals. Adjustable pacing. Our works are designed to be experienced.

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Multiple Presentation Modes

Our works are designed for diverse contexts: digital distribution, festival submission, and installation-ready configurations for gallery settings.

Artistic Lineage

Our work sits in dialogue with contemporary practices that treat interactivity as artistic medium.

Environmental Systems as Metaphor

Contemporary interactive works where environmental mechanics carry thematic meaning beyond gameplay function.

Social Trace Experiences

Asynchronous encounters through artifacts—connection implied rather than demanded, presence felt across time.

Companion as Ethical Relation

Creature-as-companion traditions reinterpreted as relational ethics rather than collection, control, or power.

Experience Our Work

Discover Wyldore, our flagship interactive work exploring care under pressure.

Explore Wyldore