ChopJohn Games is an AI-driven studio built around a simple idea: imagination should move faster. Using AI-native tools and natural language development, we create playable games in rapid iterations without losing the sense of delight that made us want to make games in the first place. These four titles are live examples of that approach in action.
Culture pathogens in a petri dish, discover strange new traits, and publish your research as you climb from Lab Intern to Nobel Laureate. Strain is a weirdly addictive idle game with 20 procedural organisms, 580+ trait combinations, and a full prestige loop. Winner of the Idle Hands game jam.
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One ship. 10,000 sleeping survivors. A galaxy of unknown worlds. You are the captain of the Arkhaven. Find new homes for humanity, seed colonies on alien planets, and sleep through the centuries as civilizations rise and fall without you.
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Protect the final tower of humanity against relentless waves of enemies across a collapsing galaxy. Build your strategy, discover powerful upgrades, and push deeper into the void as each run offers new threats, new rewards, and a chance to climb higher than before.
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The void has invaded. Assemble your team of superheroes, fight through waves of void creatures, and defeat them before they destroy everything you hold dear. The Vanguard is a fast-paced auto-battle strategy game where every upgrade decision matters.
Visit Game →ChopJohn Games began long before it had a name. We grew up inventing imaginary games, dreaming up characters like Chop Sporter and John Darks, and building whole worlds in our heads. In a lot of ways, this studio still runs on that same childhood spark: the belief that imagination can become something real.
What drives us now is the same thing that drove us then: delight. Over the years, we have helped build studios, lead teams, create games played by millions, and serve in leadership roles across gaming and technology. But ChopJohn Games is personal. It is where all of that experience meets the original reason we started making things at all: because bringing ideas to life is still magical.
Worldbuilder. Systems designer. Delight chaser.
Creator. Collaborator. Keeper of the spark.
