Product & Tooling Lab
West Forge develops product and tooling initiatives alongside consulting work. The focus is practical: AI-assisted engineering workflows, Unreal tooling, world-building systems and low-cost publishing automation.
Positioning
This is active West Forge product and tooling work: live, demoable systems used to explore practical workflows for game development, AI-assisted engineering, technical delivery and low-cost publishing automation.
Built from real product work, not speculative slideware.
Designed to reduce manual effort and improve iteration speed.
Focused on practical workflows that designers, engineers and technical leaders can understand.
Suitable for demos, partner conversations and consulting engagements.
Tools in development
The current lab work is focused on game/system design, Unreal workflows, world planning, codebase-aware implementation planning and low-cost publishing automation.
West Forge-owned product
Stormbane is a West Forge-owned game and product initiative, developed by West Forge and published through stormbane.com. It provides a real product context for tooling, Unreal workflows, AI-assisted engineering and publishing automation.
Available for relevant demo, partner and consulting conversations.
In development
A workflow tool for quickly assembling, testing and iterating gameplay spaces in Unreal. Designed to support rapid blockout, layout exploration and repeatable scene construction without locking teams into final art too early.
Available for relevant demo, partner and consulting conversations.
Demoable
A planning system for generating believable world structure: routes, roads, river crossings, lake placement and landscape-aware paths that respond to terrain and points of interest.
Available for relevant demo, partner and consulting conversations.
Demoable
A planning system for generating believable world structure: routes, roads, river crossings, lake placement and landscape-aware paths that respond to terrain and points of interest.
Available for relevant demo, partner and consulting conversations.
Active internal workflow
A practical agentic workflow connecting product design, codebase analysis, implementation planning, review, revision and delivery. Used to refine ideas against the actual codebase rather than treating AI as detached code generation.
Available for relevant demo, partner and consulting conversations.
Live and demoable
A lightweight publishing and promotion workflow for low-cost multi-channel content distribution. Built around Astro and n8n to support connected-feed publishing and website promotion with minimal operational overhead.
Available for relevant demo, partner and consulting conversations.
Stormbane
Stormbane is developed and owned by West Forge, with its public product presence at stormbane.com. It provides both a commercial game direction and a live environment for developing practical tooling around Unreal workflows, world-building systems, AI-assisted engineering and publishing automation.
Current demoable work includes route, river and settlement planning tools for believable game spaces, prefab/blockout workflows, codebase-aware implementation planning, AI-assisted review/revision cycles and a lightweight Astro/n8n multi-channel publishing stack.
The aim is to keep tooling grounded in an actual product: design intent, implementation constraints, player readability, production workflow and commercial publishing all have to meet in the same place.
Partnerships & demos
