Stillpond

Made with care.Built to last.

Stillpond is an independent game studio.Touch the water.

Our first game

RAN: Rival Halls

Three schools. One campus. A rivalry that never really ended.

A student in uniform stands at the academy's lit gates at night, the school building rising behind.
Gameplay footage coming soon
A player character squares up to three pumpkin-headed training dummies on the grass of the Training Yard.
The Training Yard, in the current build

A ground-up rebuild of the classic campus MMORPG for phone and desktop. Pick your hall, train with your classmates, and meet the other two schools in the arena, with the combat its players remember matched move for move.

Status
Alpha coming soon
Plays on
Phone and desktop
Genre
MMORPG

RAN: Rival Halls is an independent game by Stillpond Games, not affiliated with the publishers of RAN Online.

Care you can feel in play

Every decision under the surface shows up somewhere on it. A few of ours, and what they change for you.

  • We measured the original’s combat before touching it.

    Attacks land on the frame your hands remember.

  • Every rule is written down with the reason behind it.

    A fix in one place doesn’t quietly break another.

  • Updates ship behind tests, with a way back.

    Patch day doesn’t cost you your evening.

  • Controls were designed for thumbs from day one.

    Phone play feels native, not squeezed in.

A small studio with a long view.

Stillpond is an independent game studio: one developer for now, with no publisher setting the clock.

That freedom goes into judgment. We understand a problem before we solve it, get the details right, and keep an online game dependable long after launch day.