Dreaming up bold, otherworldly game universes.
Jalapeno Labs is a game studio crafting surreal sci-fi worlds with emotive art direction, systemic gameplay, and unforgettable co-op moments. We obsess over atmosphere, discovery, and giving players a universe worth getting lost in.
Services
How we can help you ship.
Senior-led video editing, software design, 3D modeling, and engineering. Every engagement is owned by a senior and billed by the hour, so you can scale up or down as the work demands.
Software Engineering
$150.00 / hourSenior-led engineering for the hard problems: real-time multiplayer, Unreal Engine 5 systems, self-hosted game backends, and the glue that holds a live service together.
Software Design & Mockups
$125.00 / hourProduct and interface design that turns a fuzzy idea into a clickable, build-ready prototype your engineers and stakeholders can rally behind.
Video Editing
$150.00 / hourCinematic edits for trailers, gameplay reveals, and launch content, cut to land an emotional beat and a clear call to action.
3D Modeling
$75.00 / hourProduction-ready 3D assets, props, environments, and characters, modeled, textured, and optimized to drop straight into your game engine.
Game Development
$150.00 / hourEnd-to-end game development in Unreal Engine 5: gameplay systems, multiplayer, tooling, and the polish pass that makes it feel right.
Graphic Design
$100.00 / hourLogos, brand systems, marketing art, and store-page graphics, designed by human hands with zero generative AI.
Photo Editing
$75.00 / hourProfessional retouching, color work, and compositing for product shots, portraits, and marketing photography, edited by hand, never generated.
DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure
$150.00 / hourCI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud or self-hosted deployments that make shipping boring, in the best way.
Code Review & Architecture Audits
$175.00 / hourA senior second opinion on your codebase or system design: risks found, fixes prioritized, and the reasoning explained.
Products
A universe worth getting lost in.
The things we build and ship: our apps, and the open-source projects we maintain in the open.
Games that we produce
Secret project
In developmentComing soon. A new game is on the horizon, stay tuned to find out more.
Apps we develop and maintain
We believe in open source technology
Astraval
Open sourceThe open-source, self-hostable alternative to Perforce. Terabyte-scale binaries, exclusive file locking, native Unreal Engine support. Free forever, no seat caps.
UIKit
Open sourceOur reusable React component library and design system, shared across every Jalapeno Labs web surface.
Runewood
Open sourceA Gource-inspired WebGL visualization of live agent and repository activity: a glowing file-tree forest with replay, rewind, and scrubbing.
Self-Repair
Open sourceAn NPM package that uses agentic LLMs to repair itself with a pull request when it crashes.
RimWorld Mods
Open sourceA family of RimWorld mods: the Emberworld volcanic biome, lava power pumps, recreational fishing, electricity metering, and LLM-powered mod translation tooling.
Unreal Engine 5
Our tools, on the Unreal store.
Plugins we build for our own games and ship to Fab: human-written C++, tuned for performance, and documented like we mean it.
Interaction Plugin
A production-grade interaction system for Unreal Engine 5: cone-based searching, heavily optimized for performance, extensible by design, and thoroughly documented.
In the workshop
The next plugin is being built for our own games first.
In the workshop
The next plugin is being built for our own games first.
Discover
The people behind the worlds
The studio
About Jalapeno Labs
A self-funded, people-first indie studio dreaming up bold, otherworldly game universes. Our art is 100% human-made, and AI only ever assists our developers, never replaces them.
Meet the studioCareers
Build worlds with us
Artists, designers, and developers who want a real stake in what they ship. See our open revenue-share roles.
See open rolesContact
Let us talk about the next world we are building.
Press, partnerships, or just curious? Drop us a note. We reply quickly.