Student-built games with atmosphere and direction

Crustacean Works is a student game studio creating polished, small-scale projects with a strong sense of place.

The team focuses on atmosphere and deliberate world design so each release feels clear, cohesive, and purposeful.

Development is centered at Purdue University Fort Wayne, combining in-house design and engineering with student-created music and close collaboration.

Island Song

Island Song is a small open-world puzzle game set on a grey-scale island where players restore color, life, and music by solving environmental puzzles.

Five regions shape the island, each built around a different instrument family: winds, brass, percussion, keys, and strings. Solving a region's final puzzle brings back its color and music.

Players begin stranded and nearly alone, then gradually transform the island into a more vibrant, musical world.

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Restore color, life, and music across a changing island

The island is divided into five regions inspired by winds, brass, percussion, keys, and strings, with each final puzzle bringing a new part of the island back to life.

Built by Crustacean Works at Purdue University Fort Wayne

The island is divided into five regions inspired by winds, brass, percussion, keys, and strings, with each final puzzle bringing a new part of the island back to life.

Development is centered at Purdue University Fort Wayne, combining in-house design and engineering with student-created music and close collaboration.

Purdue University Fort Wayne

Student-built project with collaboration from the PFW School of Music.

Built in Unreal Engine 5

The game is being developed in Unreal Engine 5. World design and coding are built in-house, with select design and animation assets sourced from the Fab Store when they support the project.

Student-created score

The score is student-created and arranged or performed by team members and commissioned collaborators, including work connected to the PFW School of Music.