Twin-stick arcade
Blast Foundry
A molten-factory shooter with 64 hand-built enemy sprites and a boss the size of the whole screen.
Pixel-Art Game Studio · Toronto
We Forge 8-Bit Worlds, One Pixel Block at a Time.
TapForgeBlast.fun is a Harbord Street game studio hand-building retro arcade titles, chunky sprite systems, and playable prototypes. Every tile is placed by hand — no auto-generated mush, just crunchy, grid-aligned craft.
- Cabinets shipped
- 48
- Hand-drawn sprites
- 12k
- On Harbord Street
- 9 yrs
Cabinets shipped
Hand-drawn sprites
On Harbord Street
Our Mission
Small studio. Loud pixels. Zero filler.
We started TapForgeBlast in a University-district loft with one CRT monitor and a stubborn love for 16-color palettes. Today we build fast, tactile arcade games that run on a browser tab or a real cabinet — designed frame by frame so every jump, blast, and coin-drop feels earned.
- Hand-placed tile art on a strict 8-bit palette
- 60fps feel tuned on real arcade hardware
- Source, sprites, and sound handed over on delivery
The Cartridge Shelf
Games we forged this year
Scroll the shelf — each cartridge is a shipped title you can play today.
Puzzle / stacker
Tap Tower TO
Stack pixel condos across a tiny Toronto skyline. Ships with a level editor and daily seeds.
Endless platformer
Harbord Runner
A one-button dash through a neon University-district night, tuned for pixel-perfect timing.
Roguelite
Coin Crypt
12 procedurally chained dungeons, permadeath, and a chiptune score recorded on a real Game Boy.
The Crew
Four people, one cartridge at a time
Meet the pixel-pushers behind every frame.
Lead Pixel Artist
Mara V.
Draws every sprite on a 32×32 grid and refuses to anti-alias.
Gameplay Engineer
Dev O.
Chases 60fps like it owes him money. Owns three arcade cabinets.
Chiptune Composer
Priya S.
Writes scores on original hardware — Game Boy, NES, and a broken SID chip.
Level Designer
Tomás L.
Builds levels backwards from the final boss so difficulty always curves right.
Player Two Says
What clients and players tell us
“They turned our brand mascot into a full arcade cabinet for our launch party. Guests queued for 40 minutes to play it.”
“The sprite work is genuinely museum-grade. Every enemy reads instantly even at 240p. Worth every dollar.”
“We shipped our prototype in six weeks. TapForge handed over clean source and a soundtrack we still hum.”
“Their playtest sessions on real hardware caught bugs our emulator never showed. Total pros.”
Insert Coin
Pick your continue
Transparent Canadian pricing. No hidden lives lost.
Prototype Cart
A playable vertical slice to pitch or test.
$3,900CAD · one-time
- 2–3 week build
- One playable level
- Custom sprite set (up to 40)
- Browser build handoff
Most picked
Full Arcade Title
A complete shippable game, start to boss fight.
$14,500CAD · project
- 8–12 week build
- Full level & progression design
- Original chiptune score
- Cabinet + browser builds
- Source & sprite files included
Cabinet Commission
Physical arcade cabinet built and delivered.
$28,000CAD · turnkey
- Custom hardware build
- Marquee & side-art design
- On-site install in the GTA
- One-year service visits
Studio hours: Mon–Fri 10:00–18:00, Sat 12:00–16:00 (drop-in playtests).
Continue?
Let's forge your game
Tell us about your title, brand activation, or cabinet idea. We reply within one business day from our Harbord Street studio.
- Phone
- +1 (416) 964-2824
- Studio
- 95A Harbord Street, University, Toronto, ON M5S 1G6
- [email protected]