Making fun, dyslexia-friendly games

Welcome to Lowtek Games

Lowtek Games is an indie run by Alastair Low studio founded in 2020 focused on creating games and tools to help dyslexic players enjoy games more.
We create new retro homebrew games for the NES, dreamcast and current platforms.

Game services

Game Art Services :
We will create high quality game ready 2D or 3D assets.
We have created artwork on a handfull of other game titles, including;
Dungeon Golf, Valley Peaks, Harlequest, Direct Drive,
other game logos

Accessability Consultancy:
We will meet with you and discuss how you would make your game more accessible.

For more info email: info@lowtek.games

The Games

Bib Goes Home (Project Light Book)

A Magical adventure of light on a real popup book
Bridging the gap between books and screens

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Explore

Paint

Play Golf?

Viral Video Over 14 Milion Views! HERE

See the prototype it in person

Upcoming Shows:
Blackpool Play Expo UK (5th - 6th October 2024)

Previous Shows:

NottsVGE UK(20th -21st July 2024)
Midwest Gaming Classic USA (past)
Blackpool/Glasgow Play Expo 2023 UK (past)
OLL 2023 UK (past)
EGX Rezzed 2023 (past)
RGC 2024 France (past)
Day of the Devs USA (past)
alt.ctrl GDC USA 2024 (past)
WASD Curios UK (past)

"QUOTES"

Kotaku Article "This Playable Pop-up Book Is The Coolest Thing I’ve Ever Seen. "

rockpapershotgun "an impossibly cute cardboard flip book and projector combo that let its cartoon hero Bib bound across the 3D paper environments to find a way home. "

Lost in Cult lowtek games have reinvented what a game can be and theyve torn down the walls between digital and anologe.

Shuhei Yoshida "This is magical" "I had a blast playing the game"

The Verge "My absolute favorites were barc... and the projector mapping magic of this bib goes home flipbook." at GDC

Janet Garcia "My absolute favorites were barc... and the projector mapping magic of this bib goes home flipbook."

Press Kit HERE

FLEA!2 NES Homebrew

A sequel to the 2020 game FLEA!
Coming Soon

DEMO OUT NOW!! Play the Online or download the ROM HERE

Press Kit: HERE

Availiable on These platforms. Click the links to be redirected.

"It's bloody hard and chronicly moreish"
- Ally Low Lowtek Games

Parasite Pack!

Two titles, Flea and Tapeworm Disco Puzzle on modern Consoles, published by Ratalika games

Availiable on These platforms. Click the links to be redirected.

Tapeworm Disco Puzzle

The game was over 200% funded on kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flea-game/tapeworm-disco-puzzle

Now available on playdate!
A gridbased puzzle game in the Flea universe where you play as a night club owning tapeworm.

Winner: Soundtrack of the year (Playdate Comunity Awards)

Play the Online Demo HERE

Availiable on These platforms. Click the links to be redirected.

Chew Chew Mimic

Coming to Evercade Indie Heroes 3, was Game of the month November 2023
Now available on playdate!
A grid based puzzle game where you play as a hungry mimic who has to guide delicious knights to their doom.
Game made in collaboration with Rigged Games

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debug indie game awards winner

Availiable on These platforms. Click the links to be redirected.

http://kck.st/3IrGk1g
A kickstarter campaign was ran for playhead but was unfortunately unsuccessful.
We are looking into more funding options.

Playhead is a puzzle platformer game set inside an online media player. Use the familiar media bar
mechanics to manipulate time and solve a variety of mind bending puzzles.

Take control of Scrub, a bot who has been tasked with finding and fixing all the glitches in the videos on the site.
As time goes on you find out there is bigger problems at play.
Heres the trailer and kickstarter video

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Play the demo on itchio or Steam

FLEA!

The Game is made using the Nesmaker Game engine. Play as a flea who just cant stop jumping.
A hard core platformer, prefect for speedrunners with a Groose backstory.
Get the Demo now on itch. Fully Funded on kickstarter.
OUT NOW!! Play the Online Demo HERE

Availiable on These platforms. Click the links to be redirected.

"Flea has proven to be our most played game on the Indie Heroes cart. It's absolutely fantastic."
- Retro Gamer Magazine,

"Flea, one of my favorite indie gamer there" "Flea! Is very addictive"
- Metal Jesus Rocks

“Never played anything like Flea... It's NES's Meat Boy/N+”
- Indie Gamer Chick

Official Lowtek Games Merch

Playdate Music Apps

Here's a musical rendition of the playdate theme using only apps on the playdate.
It was also the half time show for the playdate community awards 2022

Appd from lowtek Games are : PDRUMES , Ocarina PD, HurdyGurdy PD

Flea Jump!

Flea jump is an endless jumper featuring blood thirsty parasites. Play as Henry the hyperactive flea who just
can’t stop jumping. Jump higher and higher to collect blood, unlock new power ups and place on the world leaderboard.
OUT NOW ! Flea Jump! will be available on iOS and Android

TIGA finalist

Availiable on These platforms. Click the links to be redirected.

Join our community on Discord
https://discord.gg/4fJskHc

A Familiar Fairytale: Dyslexic text Based Adventure

This game was created to help other feel the frustration of having dyslexia.
You play as a small fox a fairy tale story with Kings, Queens and witches.
We don't claim to be actually like what a dyslexic persons sees, but merely a simulation of the frustration.

Availiable on These platforms. Click the links to be redirected.

Bowl Em Down

Scream your way to victory in this Free to play infinite Roller.
Unlock a range of skins from LGBT flags to galaxies and even a familiar looking flea.
Available on Android Play store and iOS.

Availiable on These platforms. Click the links to be redirected.

Prototypes And Other Projects

These games are in early stages. We feel they have potential and could become full releases in the future.

Bib Goes Home Projection Mapped Pop-up Book

Bib goes home is a proof of concept game for a projection mapped based series of books.

Courier Article
Kotaku Article "This Playable Pop-up Book Is The Coolest Thing I’ve Ever Seen. "

PEAKS board game

Peaks is a board game of skill and luck for 2 players where the objective is to match black and white sides of triangles
before the other player. However only 2 of the triangles sides are visible at any one time leaving an air of mystery
to other side. Players take turns to roll a dice which gives them an amount of points to spend per turn.
A list of moves for varying costs are used during the players turn, moves include; turning, swapping, stealing triangles etc.

Cross stitch

Cross stitch animation tests. We are working on an editor.

Crossstitch explosion

The Tools

Dislectek is an award winning unity plugin which allows developers to quickly and easily add Dyslexic friendly text to speech options to their game.
For years dyslexic players have been ignored but their struggles are real. It's estimated that as many as 1 in 5 people are dyslexic.
This means that if you have lengthy dialogue, tutorial text, hidden notes or item descriptions 20 % of your potential audience may just
skip that content.

OUT NOW to the Unity asset store and itchio for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/ integration/dislectek-192133

https://lowtekgames.itch.io/dislectek

Dislectek Bar

We plan on including Dislectek in our future games built in Unity to showcase the tool.