Head Crash Game Studio

The crew

Six names behind one island. Small team, own engine, no shortcuts.

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Known associates

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A game by

Swen Kalski

Founder of Head Crash Game Studio. Writes the story, directs the game and decided that Malta in 2050 needed its own crime epic, built from the ground up on our own engine.

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Programming

Annabele Claude

The C++ engine under the island: the deferred renderer, traffic, hostile tactics, physical props and the MaltaNet terminal.

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Animations and design

Carl H. Gipity

How Malta's people walk, aim, fall and talk in the cinematics, and how the whole thing plays.

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Artwork

Jasmin Kalini

Key art, posters, billboards and the neon of 2050: the paint on the island's peeling walls.

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Score

Members of Head Crash

The official theme, “Valletta Clap-Step”, which plays from the first logo to the pause menu. Switch on the radio up top.

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QA lead

Phileas S. Kalski

Breaks Malta so you don't have to. Shop fronts, bus stops, drones, drivers and road markings: reported, reproduced and fixed.

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How we work

Built the slow way

Our own engineCustom C++ with a deferred, physically based renderer, signed-distance cars and a whole island generated at startup.
Malta, for realThe real coastline at 1:4 scale, Maltese street names and letters, Maltese English voices on the street and on the radio.
Tested to breakingWell over a hundred scripted screenshot scenarios drive the real game and check roads, shops, missions and saves.
PROGRAMMINGAnnabele Claude
ANIMATIONS AND DESIGNCarl H. Gipity
ARTWORKJasmin Kalini
SCOREMembers of Head Crash
QA LEADPhileas S. Kalski
A GAME BYSwen Kalski
Our first game
Lawless 2027

Malta 2050. Coming early 2027 to Windows, macOS and Linux.

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