Geisha Studios

Geisha Studios is not the name of a company nor even the name of a group. Geisha Studios is the name I use to publish, as it were, the little games I develop.

Usually, my games are small “time-wasters”, although sometimes they are ports of games that I’ve found entertaining but weren’t available outside the Windows ecosystem, such as in Mac OS X, Linux or homebrew consoles (specially GP2X, Dingoo and soon, I hope, Pandora.)

I also made some simple games and programs using literate programming. I made those applications in order to test whether literate programming is a viable methodology to develop stable, easier to maintain games. I’ve haven’t formed a definitive conclusion yet, but for now I lean towards the “not specially time efficient” mindset.

I’ve chosen the name Geisha based on the literal meaning of the Japanese word 「芸者」 which would be “artist”. Despite what others might think, I believe that games are pieces of art whose objective is to entertain, like a true geisha, using a variety of techniques: animation (or “dance”), music, songs, storytelling, etc. The Studios part is there only because I thought it sounded better than “Geisha Games” or any other name I could think of.