Now making Avoria
One developer in Cambridge, Ontario, making Avoria for Steam. Survive the waves, break the seals, face the boss.
Seals 0/3 Click the scene to fire. A toy in Avoria's colours, not the game.
In development for Steam
A top-down action roguelite: survive the waves, break the seals, face the boss.
Avoria was a kingdom of rune-wrights. Beneath it sleeps the Vemon, a devourer older than the kingdom. You are the last of the Warden line, going down area by area to mend the seals.
Each area comes in waves. You aim every shot yourself, pick up abilities and relics as you go, and before a run you can swear a vow: a burden and a boon that last the whole way down. Every stone in an area is a seal held by an Oathbreaker, and the boss door opens only when all of them are broken.
Screens from a development build, October 2026. Select one to see it larger.
Plaug Studios is me, Jonathon Wager, working on my own in Cambridge, Ontario. Avoria is the big project. Around it I ship smaller things: a daily puzzle, a tool that rescues old slideshows, a Steam Frame database with a kit for Godot, and three browser extensions on their way to the stores.
Use something today
Four of these are live and the extensions are in the store queue. Each one does a single job, and when you write about any of them the reply comes from the person who built it. Every panel below works.
Place mirrors so the laser lights every gem and ends in the socket. A new board arrives at midnight, and each one has exactly one answer.
Opens an old Photo Story 3 project (.wp3) in your browser and saves it as an MP4, with the photos, narration, captions and pan and zoom. Nothing is uploaded.
Lake Tahoe, California, 1972. Belinda Rain for DOCUMERICA.
Which Steam games run standalone on the Steam Frame: Valve's Verified and Playable lists, with room for frame rate, runtime and controller reports from players. Beside it, the Frame-Ready Kit sets up a Godot 4.6+ project for the Frame, with Valve's two export presets, checks against the Verified criteria and a controller action map.
Fetching the live counts from FrameDB.
Three extensions: a YouTube playlist exporter, a bookmarks and history exporter, and a cookie cleaner that runs when you close a site's last tab. None of them has a server of its own or any analytics.
The CSV the exporter writes for a playlist holding the Slideback demo from this studio's channel:
#,Title,URL,Channel,Duration 1,How to open a Photo Story 3 project (.wp3) in 2026 and save it as MP4,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-p6yUG68Y,Plaug Studios,0:38| # | Title | Channel | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How to open a Photo Story 3 project (.wp3) in 2026 and save it as MP4 | Plaug Studios | 0:38 |
Contact
Questions, bug reports, press, licensing a puzzle for a paper. It all goes to one inbox, and I read it.
jonathonwagerLab
A 16 by 16 grid in the studio's colours. Click or drag to draw, or use the arrow keys and Space. Nothing you draw is saved or sent anywhere, and it is gone when you leave.