Fluid Puzzle
Ink Tide
Guide a drop of living ink through flooded libraries. Bend viscosity, fold reflections, and learn the grammar of a sea that rewrites itself when unobserved.
Nocturnal Studio — Est. 2018 · Tide Division
We quiet the current,
then let it speak.
Quellwisp makes fluid puzzle-poems, ink-tide simulators, and games about things that surface only at night. Our worlds are written in water and remembered by moonlight.
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Surfaced Works
Things that rose at night
Meditative Sim
Moonwell
Tend a well that fills only under a specific moon. Balance evaporation, reflection, and dream-offering. No failure state—only lower tides.
Narrative / Horror-lite
The Quiet Surface
A lakeside town where every reflection is a year behind. Recover drowned letters, decide which memories to let rot, and listen for the wisp at 3am.
Prototype
Silver Undertow
Co-op swimming-game about pulling each other out of rhymes. Currently in internal tide-tests; no release window, only moon phases.
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The Studio
Still water, slow hands
Quellwisp started as a midnight email: “what if a game felt like watching ink settle?” Nine years later we are nine people who still answer that question with prototypes instead of pitches.
We work from a converted boathouse, a Tokyo apartment, and a Discord that only pings during lunar events. No hype cycles, no seasons passes, no urgency that the ocean didn’t invent first.
Our code is quiet. Our shaders are wet. Our endings are tidal—they return, they recede, they leave something on the shore.
09Makers
04Surfaced Works
∞Tide Cycles
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Makers
The wisp bearers
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Nerida Vale
Creative Director
Keeps the studio’s “one true tide” document. Believes pacing is just teaching the player to hold their breath politely.
R
Rui Asano
Fluid & Light
Writes shaders that behave like tea. Specializes in caustics, meniscus edges, and the exact grey of a thought you forgot.
E
Elia Moon
Sound & Silence
Records harbours at 2am. Mixes absence as if it were a reverb tail with nowhere left to go.
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Contact
Leave a bottle on the dock
Press, translation, and fellow night-workers can reach the boathouse directly.
Studio Address
Quellwisp Games KK
3-7-2 Tamagawa Boathouse B
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-0094
Japan
3-7-2 Tamagawa Boathouse B
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 158-0094
Japan
Telephone
+81 3 3700 8842
Hours
Tue–Sat · 13:00–22:00 JST