WHAT DOES DEPRAVED FANCY DO?

creating and designing

smart games for smart women

(and other folx too)

Depraved Fancy is a woman-led game studio in Washington state.

Our name—built on a literary allusion to a work by Nathaniel Hawthorne—speaks to our mission as an emerging studio to create feminist games that overturn, counter, or invert tropes and stereotypes, especially but not exclusively about women. Our studio builds small-scale games for mobile with a focus on puzzle games, narrative-driven games, and simulators. Our studio doesn’t use AI. We value hand-created, thoughtful content that emphasizes agency and choice for both creator and audience.

And the other part of our name is that we like the weird, the dark, and the strange.

Let’s overturn the patriarchy and capitalism—one game at a time!

who is depraved fancy?

LANGLEY HYDE

FOUNDER
creative director, game designer & narrative designer; pretends to write but goes online shopping; collects plants and calls it “gardening”; adopter of too many hobbies; tea-drinker and chili enthusiast; every novel needs a home: preferably her home.
In previous a life, arrested alongside Twain for public indecency.
PHILIPP ROSER

PROGRAMMER
theoretical physicist & programmer; converts coffee into executable files; devil's advocate and eternal skeptic; adept at Kung Fu; expert chocolate cake baker; his other girlfriend is a piano.
In a previous life, played drunken chess with Czar Alexander I during the Congress of Vienna.
MICHAEL BELL

SOUND & MUSIC
college instructor, sound designer and music creator; raccoon whisperer & bird watcher; keeps a menagerie of synths and pedals; friend of the dust bunny & good at irrigation; loves things that go clickety-clack or have strings.
In a previous life, beat Sheridan Le Fanu at darts.