The world flows from
imagination.

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01 — A knock on wood

Everything starts underground.

A held breath, a stubborn idea, and roots that take hold before anyone’s watching.

02 — It reaches

Then it grows toward the light.

Games, stories, films — branch after branch, each one carved by hand.

03 — It bears fruit

And the work lights up the canopy.

Four kinds of trouble, glowing on the branches. Hover them.

Knock on wood.

Whole worlds can grow from a single superstition.

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Every project starts the same way — a knock on wood, a held breath, and the stubborn belief that the next thing we make will be the best thing we’ve made.

Worlds taking root

Some ideas become places.

Our worlds can be played, watched, read, and investigated from different doors. The world keeps growing even when the medium changes.

Explore every world

World 01 Now unfolding

Outbreak

The outbreak is the emergency. What people do next becomes the world.

A fictional world about containment, responsibility, and the systems people build when the emergency refuses to end.

  • Play
  • Watch
  • Read
  • Investigate
Enter Outbreak See what else is taking root →

What we make

Four kinds of trouble.

We don’t pick a lane. We carve in whichever medium the idea is asking for.

  1. 01

    Games

    Playable experiences — some open into larger worlds, while others are complete in a single sitting. All are made to linger after the credits roll.

    Enter the arcade →
  2. 02

    Stories

    Narratives with teeth — comics, fiction, and lore built to be read twice and remembered for years.

  3. 03

    Films & Video

    Moving pictures that move people — trailers, shorts, animation, and the occasional thing we can’t explain until you watch it.

  4. 04

    Wild Creative

    The hard-to-categorise stuff — experiments, collaborations, toys, and the happy accidents that become next year’s favourite project.

    See the wild creative →

The studio

Why “knock on wood”?

Because making things is mostly equal parts craft and luck, and we’d be fools to pretend otherwise. We’re a small crew of builders, writers, and animators who’d rather ship something strange and true than something safe and forgettable.

No house style, no single medium — just a workbench, a long list of ideas, and a healthy respect for superstition.

  • Make it by handIf it could’ve been made by anyone, we didn’t make it.
  • Ship the weird oneThe riskiest idea in the room is usually the one worth chasing.
  • Finish thingsReleased and imperfect beats perfect and imaginary.

Got something to build?

Knock on the door.

Pitches, collaborations, commissions, or just to say hello — we read everything.

hello@knockonwood.studio