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Who we are
The house behind the stories.
Jugl Studio is an independent entertainment and storytelling studio. It builds original characters and worlds and tells them as comics, tabletop games, novels and film. Made in Faisalabad and Melbourne, registered in Cheyenne, named for the walnut tree.
The name
From the tree that shaped the brain.
Jugl comes from Juglans, the walnut tree, whose fruit is shaped almost exactly like the human brain. We liked that.
The work
Four things from this house.
Cover
Thoughts Never Hide
A boy whose thoughts appear above his head. Free, with its film.
Cover
The Color She Gave Away
Forty-eight pencils, four crayons, and a pull Nora cannot name. Free.
Key art
ROWWARD
One decision a turn. Move fast, or move less and keep something.
Concept art
Feel Never Die
A boy, a dying butterfly, and a city that stopped mentioning the air.
The people
Who is here.
Seven people across three countries. Write to us and one of them reads it.
Kamran Ali
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Kamran co-founded Jugl Studio and runs it day to day.
He leads the creative direction across the comics and the tabletop games, and works with the team on the characters, the worlds and the rules.
He also looks after the brand, the partners and the makers the studio works with.
Who carries it
- Zeeshan AliCo-Founder and Executive Chairman
- Kamran AliCo-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Who makes it
- Olivia CarterStory Writer and Narrative Designer
- Marcus JohnsonComic Artist and Illustrator
- Ethan WalkerTabletop Game Designer
- Emily RodriguezComic and Game Graphic Designer
- Daniel KimEditor, Playtest and Quality Coordinator
What guides the work
Four ideas, and the decision each one changed.
Joy
ROWWARD's whole turn is one decision, made in seconds and argued about for the rest of the evening. Everything that explained too much was cut.
Uplift
The Color She Gave Away starts with a girl guarding forty-eight pencils and ends somewhere kinder, without a lesson attached.
Glow
In Feel Never Die, Sola's electric blue appears on exactly two things in the whole book, her wings and Liam's notebook. Nowhere else.
Live
Every game this house makes needs a table and more than one person at it.
AI helps us research and keep the lights on. It does not draw, sculpt, write or set the rules, and every image on this site says what it is.
Read what people sent usRight now
What is on the bench
Where each format stands. The list moves when the work does, not before.
- Comics
- Two to read now, one coming soon
- Games
- One board game in development
- Film
- One short made
- Novels
- Planned
- STL Miniatures & Terrain
- Coming soon
- Collaborators and partners
- Announced when signed
Follow the work
Progress on what we are making, new releases, and word when something opens.