Game studio · Singapore · est. 2024

We make reality worth playing.

KYKUYO exists to make a real impact, fostering a symbiotic relationship between humans and nature.

Origin story

Small team. Real worlds.

KYKUYO is a Singapore game studio built on a simple bet: the most powerful game mechanic ever invented is the real world. We build games that pull players outside, into their streets, parks and city, and reward them for making all of it better.

Our first world is SolAR, a solarpunk geo-RPG live in Singapore, built on our own World Engine, the technology that digitalizes real places into playable ones. Before that came Splat Town, the AR experience that won Niantic's Lightship Grand Prize and proved the thesis: people will play in the real world, if the game is good enough.

We are a small team that ships. Every screenshot on this site is real, running in-game.

KYKUYO concept art: Sky the tinkerer grinning over an open machine, screwdriver in hand — Concept art

Team members

The Founding Team.

Three disciplines, one raid group: strategy, engineering and operations.

P1
Caro Urien
CEO & Co-Founder
+12 years building digital strategies for top companies in US, Southeast Asia and LATAM. Worked across multiple industries, including Gaming and eCommerce.
P2
Patrick Crawford
CTO & Co-Founder
10 years of executing or leading software development. Cofounder startup developing mobile apps for nonprofits. Automation engineer for 3D animation studios including Emmy-nominated work.
P3
Uzair McNair
COO & Co-Founder
Sustainable eCommerce co-founder, managing partnerships across +200 Sustainable merchants and NGOs in Singapore and Malaysia. Grew platform into the largest sustainable mobile marketplace in SEA.

Field record

Proven in the wild.

From the vault · where it started

Splat Town

The Lightship-Grand-Prize-winning AR experiment that proved our thesis: people will play in the real world when the game is good enough. Still playable on itch.io.

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