Mission Statement

Here at Stormhaven Studios, our goal is crafting worlds which provide players with legendary experiences that engage them with a level of challenge that respects their intelligence. We aim to be true to the gamers, geeks, and nerds of the world by offering them worlds to explore and live in, not products designed around maximum monetization.

From tabletop games to novels, from board games to MMORPGs and beyond, we are focused on sparking the imagination of players from around the planet, and inspiring a new generation of community-based gamers who crave exploration of other worlds alongside their fellow adventurers.

Core Values:

  1. We are a “by gamers, for gamers” studio. We are gamers first and developers second.
  2. Our products are designed with a “passion first, profit second” mentality.
  3. Our worlds are designed around group-based gameplay and community, not microtransactions or loot crates.
  4. We are driven by an intense desire to create brand loyalty through our products. We want our audience to trust us not because of a singular product, but because our studio consistently produces high-quality and engaging content for players.
  5. Our development efforts are focused on fun and engaging gameplay content, not on digital goods for a cash shop.
  6. We offer customers gameplay experiences without immersion-breaking tomfoolery like pop-up windows. We want you to be able to sit down and play the game without being subjected to invasive monetization.
  7. We do not design products with a customer-spending agenda in mind (i.e. throttling progress or adding player grind until customers fork over more money).
  8. We offer high-quality products at a fair price. Any subscriptions required are for ongoing services offered by our studio for our products, and for live events + content releases between expansions.
  9. We charge a fair price for full-scale games and expansions that we have worked hard to develop. Just because we are indie doesn’t mean we are cheap, but we also aren’t expensive. We charge industry standards for our titles/expansions.
  10. We are all here because games are fun; people buy products that they can have fun experiencing, and game developers make games because it’s fun. This ideal is shared in our work environment as well as in the design of our products.
  11. We design our multiplayer games to bring communities together, wherein they can forge lasting friendships and create lifelong memories of epic adventures shared with each other.
  12. We value challenge. Nothing brings people together like overcoming a challenge. We challenge ourselves to bring players great gaming experiences, and we challenge our players with a level of gameplay that respects their desire for virtual worlds that revolve around community interaction and group-based gameplay.
  13. We strive to have a tangible relationship with our playerbase. We not only play our own games with our community, but we also play many other games together with our followers as part of the Embers Adrift gaming community; remember, we are gamers first and developers second.
  14. As a company, we are dedicated and loyal to all those we work with whether they be partners, investors, employees, or contractors.
  15. We understand that each person employed by our company is offering us their creativity and expertise because they want to grow personally and professionally, and also to support themselves and potentially a family. In order to work in the best interest of the company and of themselves and their families, our employees need a company they can trust to have their welfare in mind, whether that is with industry-standard salaries or perks such as company-provided, full-coverage health insurance. We provide such an environment for those developing alongside us.
  16. We build products with a high standard of quality. We here at Stormhaven Studios hold ourselves and those working with us accountable to both a solid work ethic and best practices, as well as a high level of professional interaction in a relaxed, casual, and fun environment, often times from the comfort of our own homes in a remote environment.
  17. In the relaxed and casual development environment our company offers comes an expectation that those working with us are passionate about their work, self-motivated, open to constructive criticism, self-managing, and honest about how their work is progressing with the entire team.
  18. We strive to offer an environment where our employees and partners are challenged to grow professionally, to learn new skills, and achieve their personal and professional best.
  19. We foster a company culture that encourages design ideas to come from every level, including our community. Every person has a right to have their ideas heard, with the understanding that as a responsible company the decisions for the right direction for the company to move forward with its product(s) remains the responsibility of the management.
  20. We are committed to solid accounting. We will be fiscally responsible with our funds to protect and promote the interests and longevity of our company and its products, the security of our employees, the respect of our community, and the trust and benefit of our investors.
  21. We are also grateful. It is incredibly humbling to us that gamers from around the world desire to spend their hard-earned money on our products and services. We know you have tens of thousands of options to choose from on the global playing field. We will do our absolute best to bring you those products and services at the highest level of quality we possibly can. Thank you!