OakTree Games

One developer.
Worlds built one pixel at a time.

OakTree Games is a one-person indie studio. I make deep, hand-crafted games that respect the player's time and the player's curiosity. Cosmic Scale is the flagship — an isometric factory game in active development — alongside Infinite Initiative, a deckbuilding roguelike you can play free in your browser right now, and Echo, a project still in the lab.

0 Items across eight tiers

0 Buildings power · logistics · weather

0 Research Nodes a real tech tree

0 Biomes hand-tuned worldgen

0 Tiers primitive → stellar

0 Developer building it all solo

The Developer

Hi — I'm Kyle.

I'm the solo developer, designer, artist, and writer behind OakTree Games. Every system designed by hand, every shipped sprite hand-finished in Aseprite, every decision mine — one person, building the kind of game I've always wanted to play.

My love of games goes back as far as I can remember. As a kid, it was hand-me-down consoles and the kind of long Saturday afternoons that disappear into a single save file. Factorio. Stardew Valley. Satisfactory. Dyson Sphere Program. The kind of games that don't end — they just keep unfolding the deeper you look.

The first time I built a PC — researching every part, fitting it together, and getting it to boot — something clicked. The same feeling I'd loved as a player (building, optimizing, watching a system come alive) was even better on the making side. From that moment, the goal stopped being "play more games" and started being "make one of my own."

Cosmic Scale is that game. It's everything I've loved about factory sims, isometric pixel art, World of Warcraft's sense of a world that exists beyond what you can see, and the slow, satisfying climb from primitive to cosmic — distilled into something I hope you'll love too.

Quick Bio

NAME: Kyle
ROLE: Designer · Developer · Artist (everything)
STUDIO: OakTree Games · Founded 2025
FAVS: Factorio · Stardew · Satisfactory · DSP · WoW
ENGINE: Unity URP · C# · HLSL
CONTACT: hello@oaktree-games.com

FOLLOW ALONG

The Studio Mission

Make the world
worth tinkering in.

Factory games are at their best when every system rewards curiosity. OakTree builds for the players who want to take a single screw and trace it all the way back to the asteroid it was mined from.

I'm allergic to filler. If a recipe exists in Cosmic Scale, it's because it ties two real systems together. If a biome looks different, it plays different too. If you build a Dyson swarm, every connected power grid feels it.

I'm not chasing trends. I'm building the game I want to play — and trusting that the people who want that too will find it.

Studio Principles

Devlog

What I've shipped.

Cosmic Scale is built openly — a weekly devlog written the week the work happened, no marketing polish. Here are the big beats so far.

PLAYTEST SPRINT · 2026-07

Playing my own game

A full session with the player hat on produced nine notes, and the sprint worked through every one: a gentler horizon curve, richer ore patches, weather you can feel, and a pass on how the UI responds to your hands.

RE-PACE · 2026-07

Content re-pace

Trimmed the catalog to 106 items and 88 recipes — every item that survived now ties two real systems together — and retuned the mid-game so progress never stalls on filler.

ENDGAME · 2026-06

Victory means Type-1

The ending rebuilt around the real Kardashev threshold: victory is sustaining the Dyson swarm at 10 petawatts, with power and weather feeding the climb. Saves got hardened the same month — fewer ways to lose your stuff.

PHASE C · 2026-05

Performance overhaul

Shared-material caching, MaterialPropertyBlock fades, per-pixel inverse-iso map rendering. Frame budget reclaimed for the next round of polish.

PHASE B · 2026-05

Map system & terrain experiments

Per-biome map palettes and resources visible on the map. A first pass at procedural mountains shipped here too — they've since been pulled for a proper rework, so the flat horizon in current builds is deliberate.

POLISH PHASE · 2026-05

Polish systems online

Screen shake (Vlambeer trauma²), floating text, particle event bridge, adaptive music, ambient audio, notification toasts, milestone celebrations.

PHASE 36 · 2026-04

Chunk streaming & mesh batching

Row-based terrain mesh batching cuts GameObject count by ~87%. Smooth chunk streaming as the player explores.

PHASE 35 · 2026-03

Interactive world map & waypoints

Isometric world map with fog of war, waypoints, and discovery tracking. Per-pixel inverse-iso rendering.

ALPHA · 2025-12

First playable

The first complete loop: gather → smelt → craft → power → automate. Friends & family playtest.

Under the Hood

Engineering you can feel.

ENGINE: Unity URP, IL2CPP, custom 2D iso pipeline
RENDER: SRP-batched row meshes, per-vertex tint, world-curve horizon, alpha-sample mountain rims
EVENTS: EventBus<T> zero-allocation struct events. No string IDs.
SAVES: ISaveable interface + HMAC-SHA256 signed JSON envelopes. Steam Cloud + WebGL file I/O.
WORLDGEN: Multi-octave Perlin + ridge noise + Chebyshev edge ramp. Deterministic per seed.
LANGUAGES: C# 9 · HLSL · GLSL

Press Kit

For journalists & creators.

If you cover indie games, please get in touch — review keys available on request.

FACT SHEET

TITLE: Cosmic Scale
DEVELOPER: OakTree Games
GENRE: Isometric Factory · Automation · Sim
PLATFORMS: PC (Windows) · WebGL (browser) — itch.io + Steam. Console ports on the long-term roadmap.
RELEASE: In active solo development. Not yet publicly playable. Follow page + public roadmap live on itch.io and oaktree-games.com.
ENGINE: Unity URP
PRICE: Pricing announced at launch. Any patron tier locks in a free copy.
CONTACT: press@oaktree-games.com

QUICK PITCHES

SHORT: A solo-built isometric factory game spanning eight tiers, twelve biomes, and a Dyson swarm endgame.

MEDIUM: Cosmic Scale is a hand-crafted isometric factory sim where you grow a civilization across twelve hand-tuned biomes and eight tiers of technology — from a hand-held mining laser to a star-spanning Dyson swarm. Built in Unity URP with custom shaders that bend the horizon and outline every elevation step.

Contact

Say hello.

For general questions, partnerships, voice lines, art collabs, or playtesting — drop a line.

Want to follow along?

Every devlog, every screenshot, every milestone — straight from itch.io.

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One developer.Worlds built one pixel at a time.