Stellar
Pistol
LLC
Game Dev Survival Experts
OUR SERVICES
About Stellar Pistol Games
Survive the dev cycle
Stellar Pistol is a small game development support studio offering elite QA and programming services tailored for studios that demand reliability, speed, and precision. Our team specializes in AI-assisted testing, advanced automation, and scalable engineering solutions designed to adapt to projects of any size.
We deliver high-impact results both rapidly and affordably across all platforms, from console certification and compliance to full-cycle test planning and clean, efficient code implementation. We specialize in hunting down bugs before they become beasts and keeping your project alive through launch. When your game’s survival hinges on stability and seamless execution, Stellar Pistol is the final defense between your launch and the void.
Stellar Pistol, LLC
We’re Matt and Lyndsay—a married dev duo with over 20 years of combined experience spending our careers in the trenches of game development. With backgrounds in programming, QA leadership, and live operations, we launched Stellar Pistol to bring personalized, high-quality support to studios of all sizes. We believe in clean code, fast iteration, and making your life easier—whether you’re mid-sprint or mid-panic.
Game Programming & Porting
At Stellar Pistol, we specialize in breathing unholy life into your projects across systems, ensuring every asset, frame, and mechanic transitions with precision. Whether you're escaping the limits of one platform or engineering code to survive on the weakest hardware, our programming team delivers stability under pressure and elegance under fire.
In the dark corridors of game development, seamless performance and platform reach are your only lifelines. 🧬 Cross-Platform Resurrection: Expert porting from PC to console, console to handheld, or any nightmarish combination in between—built to preserve gameplay fidelity and performance. ⚙️ Performance Engineering in the Shadows: Frame-rate optimization, memory management, and GPU debugging for smooth, immersive horror across all target hardware—even the underpowered and the undead (hello, Switch). 🕸️ Legacy Code Exorcism: Refactoring and modernizing old codebases with clean, scalable systems so your game doesn’t break under the weight of time or feature creep. 🛠️ Custom Tool Development: Internal dev tools tailored to your workflow—AI behavior editors, content pipelines, or debug overlays—that let your team move through development like a well-armed survivor through a haunted hospital. 🧟 AI & Gameplay Systems That Bite: From enemy behaviors and player mechanics to progression and scripting systems—we build gameplay logic that challenges, adapts, and endures. 🔌 Input & Controller Support: Clean integration of custom control schemes, including accessibility features and peripheral support, ensuring everyone can escape (or not) their fate.
QA and Certification Testing
In the world of game development, bugs are more than annoyances—they're monsters waiting to break immersion, crash your systems, and devour your deadlines. At Stellar Pistol, we stalk them through every corner of your code, vanquish compliance threats before they rise, and ensure your game survives submission to the console overlords. Let Stellar Pistol be your ward against the unknown—protecting your game from the bugs that hide in the shadows and the cert failures lurking at launch.
We don’t just test—we hunt.. With Stellar Pistol on your side, your QA process isn’t just thorough—it’s alive. Evolving. Watching. Ready to respond when the next threat breaks through the codebase. 🔦 End-to-End QA Campaigns: Full-cycle testing from alpha through post-launch—including functional, regression, multiplayer, and DLC testing—so your game holds up under pressure, panic, and player abuse. 📜 TRC/XR Compliance Exorcisms: Deep experience with PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, and Steam requirements. We identify and resolve cert issues early—preventing costly rejections and horrifying delays. 🕷️ Bug Hunts & Behavior Isolation: Reproduction, isolation, and documentation of critical issues across hardware and software configurations. Our reports are clear, detailed, and tailored to developers' needs for swift eradication. 🧪 Stability and Performance Rituals: Crash testing, memory analysis, and stress tests across platforms and game states to ensure your build holds strong—whether during a boss fight or a save/load sequence. 🧠 Smoke, Sanity, and So Much More: We execute custom test plans, smoke tests, and sanity checks at each build milestone. You get fast validation, tight feedback loops, and assurance that your haunted codebase is stable. 🎮 Controller Sacrifices: Input testing across default, alternate, and custom configurations—including accessibility validation—to ensure every player survives your experience, on their terms. 🌍 Global-Scale Consistency: Coordinated testing across time zones with our remote horror-hardened QA crew. We scale up fast and keep communication seamless between dev, QA, and production.
AI Enhanced Pipelines
When the horde is endless and the clock is ticking, you need more than just brute force—you need precision, automation, and foresight. At Stellar Pistol, we wield bleeding-edge AI tools and data rituals to detect patterns no human could see, automate the repetitive, and predict the next outbreak before it spreads.
We are the scientists in the shadows, turning chaos into control. What We Offer: 🩸 Automation-Fueled Testing Loops: We build modular, scalable test scripts in Python, Lua, or Jenkins pipelines to slash manual testing time and catch regressions fast—no more retesting the same door 87 times. 🧬 Intelligent Bug Pattern Recognition: Use AI-assisted tools to identify clusters of related issues across builds or platforms—finding the infection vectors before they mutate into game-breaking monstrosities. 🔍 Telemetry & Gameplay Analysis: We sift through gameplay data like a forensic specialist at a haunted scene—spotting player behavior anomalies, difficulty spikes, or fall-off zones that signal broken systems or bad UX. ⚙️ Self-Healing QA Pipelines: Integrate automated build validation and smoke testing into your CI/CD workflow—ensuring each new version is checked, cleansed, and stable before anyone touches it. 🕵️ Log Scrubbing and Crash Decoding: We mine your crash logs and telemetry with SQL, Jenkins, and in-house analysis tools to extract exactly why and where things go wrong—no guesswork, just clean data-driven fixes. 📊 Test Metrics Dashboards: Deliver clear, real-time reporting on test coverage, bug velocity, and performance trends—keeping your team informed and ahead of the outbreak curve. 🧠 AI Integration Support: Already using AI in your gameplay systems or dev tools? We test and tune those systems too—evaluating edge cases, failure conditions, and strange behavior in AI/NPCs.
Address
Austin, TX
Barcelona, ES
Phone
+1 (847) 687-5365
