Four people in Cebu making small, quiet games for phones.

Studio founded 2022 · Cebu City, Philippines

We are not trying to make anything big. We like short games that you can finish on a jeepney ride and come back to a week later without feeling behind.

Everything we release is free to download and carries no in-app purchases. We pay the bills with commission work for other studios, which is described further down this page.

What we make

Four titles so far. All of them started as something one of us built over a weekend.

• Hablon A tile-weaving puzzle based on the striped patterns from Iloilo. Ninety levels, no timer, no score.
• Tabo A very short game about filling water containers before the pressure drops. Made during a week without running water.
• Sulat Daily One Cebuano word puzzle each morning. Most people play it in under two minutes and then send it to a cousin.
• Balsa Currently in art tests. A slow raft-building game set along a river. No release date and we are fine with that.

How we work

1. Someone builds a rough version alone, usually in a week or two.
2. We play it together on a Friday and decide honestly whether it is worth continuing. Most are not.
3. If it survives, we set a hard three-month limit and a fixed scope.
4. We test with family and with students at a nearby school before anything reaches a store.
5. We ship it, and then we mostly leave it alone.

We have turned down work that would have needed us to grow. Staying at four people is a deliberate choice, not a stage we are trying to get past.

Commissions

About half our year is spent helping other small teams finish things. We keep two commissions at a time, never more.

• Level and difficulty passes We play your build properly, then rebuild the progression and hand back a written report with the changes.
• 2D art and animation Character sets, environment tiles, UI motion. Concept through to production files.
• Cebuano and Filipino localisation Menus, tutorials and store copy, written by people who actually speak it.

We are booked through the first quarter of next year. If the timing works, write to us anyway and we will tell you honestly where the queue is.

Contact

One inbox, read by all four of us. We usually answer within two working days.

hello@habiworks.ph

For press or student questions, the same address is fine. We are happy to talk to people studying game design and we do not charge for that.