Crafting experiences that feel awesome to play.
Telling stories that leave a lasting impact.

  • Games are at their best when they’re played rather than watched.

    This is the cornerstone of our vision, tying together the four pillars: Gameplay, player agency, worldbuilding, and storytelling.
    We strive to create gameplay that lets the player have fun on their own terms, while telling captivating stories that don’t get in the way.

  • To develop the best games possible, it is our mission to:

    Ensure that gameplay is fun and easy to learn.
    We design our games to be easily accessible and show value through the immediate gameplay.

    Put player agency first and avoid restrictions.
    By designing our games to allow for player input atall times, we believe player agency and immersion is strengthened.

    Create gameplay that simply feels good.
    We design our gameplay to match player input with character output, focusing on immediacy and powerful audio-visual feedback.

    Set the stage for true wow-moments.
    By designing gameplay that is faster, larger and more explosive than our competitors’, we create moments that won’t be forgotten.

    Tell stories through doing, not showing.
    We believe involvement creates stronger ties than disengagement, so having players take an active role in the story is an important aspect of our storytelling.

    Enrich and deepen our stories through world building.
    We design our worlds to be explored and investigated by crafting building blocks that support the story while easing on the narrative.

  • Starsight Games was founded in Aarhus, Denmark in 2024 by Producer & Game Director Peter Schmidt.
    The company was created to develop Earthshatter—its deput title—whose development is driven by a variety of individuals, mostly relying on Peter’s work, while the company itself is owned- and operated solely by Peter.

    As development progresses, we hope to bring more creatives together to work on the project, so if you’re interested in Earthshatter, then don’t hesitate to reach out.

  • Earthshatter is developed primarily for PC, with potential console ports later down the line.
    It’s a 3rd person action-adventure game featuring momentum-based sliding-movement in an open-world environment with a fantasy setting.

    The game is a bittersweet yet hopeful story of how a pair of children become lost and separated, and must embark on a perilous quest to save each other and find a way home. The boy and girl both serve as protagonists, with the player’s viewpoint periodically switching between them, showing two perspectives of a shared path.
    You play by sliding down hills and blasting off peaks, hurling yourself overland in a meteoric crash against your enemies.
    Surrounding the peaks of gameplay is the calm and mindful exploration of a world lost in time, full of opportunities to delve into the environmental storytelling of the game. You explore ancient ruins, magical caves and meet wanderers with quests of their own, before facing down the villain to save your love.

    The game is focused on a single player experience with optional, asymmetric 2-player co-op, and is aiming to deliver 10-30 hours of gameplay, similar to the length of Shadow of the Colossus—one of the core inspirations of the game.