Who We Are
Founded by veteran developers with decades of AAA and indie video game development experience in Japan, North America, and South America, Quiet Gear offers strategic, creative, and technical consulting for teams of all sizes, from indie studios to vendors to AAA developers.
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We've shipped award-winning and Game of the Year-nominated titles, and we've also helped small, ambitious teams build pipelines, polish their stories, and prepare for growth.
Services
Development & Visual Production
​We help studios build production pipelines that scale, define art direction that works with tech constraints, and make smarter outsourcing decisions.
Art Pipeline Development
Art Direction & Creative Direction Support
AAA Transition Blueprint
Vendor Quote & Portfolio Assessment
We'll audit your current pipeline and deliver a custom framework for asset creation, quality bars, and realistic constraints.
We help define your visual tone, style guide, and production-ready assets in a way that aligns with your engine and platform constraints. We help you bridge the gap between creative vision and technical feasibility.
For studios or vendors moving towards AAA quality, we offer workflow design, deliverable planning, and milestone structures tailored to the expectations of top-tier production.
Make confident, informed outsourcing decisions. We help you evaluate vendor portfolios and proposals to ensure quotes are realistic, deliverables are aligned, and the partnership is set up for success.
Narrative, Culture & Localization
We support narrative development across scriptwriting, worldbuilding, cultural authenticity, and localization.
Scriptwriting
Worldbuilding
Cultural Narrative Review
Localization
Dialogue, scenes, and structure built for interactivity.
We provide full-service writing support for narrative games, RPGs, and branching stories from first draft to polish.
Lore and logic with production in mind.
We help build your world’s internal rules, branching narrative structure, and documentation while keeping complexity shippable.
We review your narrative, characters, and world for cultural authenticity and nuance — identifying risks, suggesting improvements, and helping your story land well across markets.
We offer localization strategy for Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese.
We help teams adapt tone, dialogue, and content across key markets, including narrative adaptation and translation readiness reviews.
About Us
Quiet Gear is a boutique consulting firm led by veteran game developers with global experience, spanning Japan, Canada, the US, and South America.
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We've helped to ship critically acclaimed titles, including Game of the Year winners, and have worked with teams of all sizes across indie, AA, and AAA studios.
What sets us apart is our ability to operate at the intersection of art, production, narrative, and technology.
Games We've Worked On
