Torn Valley
Post-apocalyptic open-world survival — overgrown cities, scavenged gear, AI-driven communities. The studio's namesake and north star.
We build worlds that fight back.
Torn Valley Studios is an independent game studio in Jupiter, Florida — crafting original survival and action games powered by next-generation, server-driven AI.
01 Featured · Released Title
Released · SteamVR
ZombVR
A room-scale VR zombie survival shooter. One of the first VR titles to ship true free-movement locomotion and animated multiplayer avatars. Released on Steam in 2017.
02 Games & Prototypes
From the workshop
Tech demos and game-jam entries from the studio's workshop.
Thrust Champion
A zero-gravity, physics-driven sports prototype where momentum is everything — the proving ground for our in-development title, Thrust Masters.
Get Elon to Mars
A frantic top-down space-shooter romp — blast through the belt and get the rocket to the red planet.
Whilomlond Pocket Battles
A stylized single-player & co-op tactical battler set in a hand-drawn winter world.
03 Snap-In · Unreal Engine Tools
Tools from our pipeline
Battle-tested editor tools and code assets from our pipeline, sold on the Unreal Engine / Fab marketplace — 8 tools, 500+ licenses sold.
Unreal Engine
Ballistics System
Realistic projectile physics — drop, travel time and penetration.
Unreal Engine
Easy Chat System
Drop-in multiplayer text chat with channels and commands.
Unreal Engine
Easy Mini-Map
Configurable mini-map and full-screen map with live markers.
Unreal Engine
Handy Macros
A toolbox of Blueprint macros that cut boilerplate fast.
Unreal Engine
Inventory System
Grid inventory with drag-drop, stacking and save support.
Unreal Engine
Simple Mesh Outliner
Crisp selection and highlight outlines for any mesh.
Unreal Engine
Smart Select Box
Marquee multi-select for RTS and tactics-style control.
8 tools shipped · 500+ licenses sold across the Unreal Engine / Fab marketplace.
04 Technology · In Development
A living brain behind the game
We're building proprietary, server-powered AI so our worlds can think bigger than the hardware they run on — without taxing your GPU or your privacy. Rolling into our upcoming titles.
Server-powered enemy AI
Enemy intelligence runs on our GPU servers — not your machine — so foes adapt to how you actually play, in real time, while your hardware stays focused on the game. Falls back gracefully when you're offline.
Living AI communities
Persistent, AI-driven communities that keep living and changing whether or not you're online — the beating heart of our open-world ambitions.
Behavioral anti-cheat
Fair play, watched server-side. AI reads movement, accuracy and timing to spot cheating — with no invasive, kernel-level access to your PC.
On the roadmap: once proven in our own games, we plan to make the same AI technology available for licensing to other studios.
05 The Studio
Worlds that feel alive.
Torn Valley Studios LLC is an independent game studio based in Jupiter, Florida. We build original survival and action games — and the server-powered AI that makes their worlds feel alive: enemies that adapt to how you play, and communities that live on whether you're watching or not.
Earlier titles were first released under the founder's prior studio, Donkey Kwon Games.
On the horizon
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In Development
Thrust Masters
A physics-driven, zero-gravity multiplayer sports game — our first commercial title, grown from the Thrust Champion prototype.
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In Planning
Floorplan
A co-op wave-survival FPS — first to deploy our adaptive, server-side enemy AI.
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In Planning
What Is Left For Us
The flagship: a post-apocalyptic open-world survival RPG with living AI communities.
20+ yrsEngineering experience
Shipped VRReleased on Steam
8 tools · 500+Unreal tools · licenses sold
PlayStationDevNet Partner
Oculus StartProgram contributor
AI-drivenServer-side worlds
06 Founder
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William Rivendell
Founder & Lead DeveloperTwenty years across Cisco, Cribl, Splunk, Symantec and Diebold Nixdorf, with production AI/ML experience — including a fully autonomous trading platform driven by a fine-tuned 32-billion-parameter model. A decade-plus in game development: a VR title on Steam, eight commercial Unreal Engine tools, PlayStation DevNet Partner and Oculus Start Contributor.
VR on Steam
8 Unreal tools
PlayStation DevNet Partner
Oculus Start
Production AI/ML