New release · Available now for Android
Gothburn Industries presents
Your tasks, shopping lists, and calendar. Five distinctive themes. One watchful raven.
Bring a little Gothburn to your everyday life—with Rook at your side and your lists kept privately on your device.
Android 7.0+ · APK download through Payhip
Installation guide included · Applicable taxes at checkout
Gothburn Industries™ · Independent creative studio
Original games. Useful inventions. A world of iron, imagination, and human resolve.
Explore the world of Severin Gothburn and the independent studio bringing it to life.
Invention in service of people.
ImaginationDisciplinePurposeThe identity
Gothburn Industries has a fictional existence and a real one. They are distinct, but deliberately connected.
Gothburn Industries is Severin Gothburn’s engineering, scientific, and industrial enterprise—built around, beneath, and through Dresdorph Castle. Its foundries, laboratories, railworks, power galleries, and command rooms serve Calderwake through invention, investigation, rescue, and repair.
Gothburn Industries™ is an independent studio for original games, useful applications, characters, visual design, and future creative work. The fiction gives the studio its atmosphere. The studio gives the fiction form.
The Gothburn Universe
A modern island nation beneath permanent cloud and fog. Here, extraordinary capability takes the form of old stone, black iron, intricate instruments, and the practiced care of people who know their work.
Modern life expressed through the craft, manners, and visible machinery of the late 1930s and 1940s.
The island’s enduring cloud and fog: a world of sheltered gardens, warm windows, and distant lights.
Calderwake’s people, the inhabited Works of Dresdorph, and the companionship of Severin and Rook.
The city and its people
Calderwake is the principal industrial city and surrounding territory—the inhabited world beyond the gates of Dresdorph. It is shaped by generations of transport, manufacturing, public works, scientific labor, and ordinary family life.
Neighborhoods, civic wards, river crossings, canal systems, rail yards, factories, laboratories, offices, and public infrastructure.
People live, work, commute, raise families, maintain utilities, and depend on systems that can fail under weather, age, accident, or neglect.
Calderwake gives Severin reasons to investigate, invent, repair, intervene, and protect. He influences the city; he does not rule it.
The ancestral and operational seat
Dresdorph is one district-scale site within Calderwake: Severin’s ancestral castle at the center of a vast, working industrial organism. The old stone has not been replaced; laboratories, power works, foundries, bridges, rail halls, service galleries, and protected chambers have grown around, beneath, beside, and through it.
From the lower rail datum, the Tower Level rises about 420 feet; maintained foundation galleries descend roughly 240 feet below it.
Ancestral Crown, Research Spine, Industrial Works, and Protected Substructure operate as one place without turning the private castle into a public concourse.
Dresdorph houses Severin, preserves archives, designs instruments, receives materials, generates power, fabricates equipment, coordinates response, and protects people during emergencies.
The man within the legend
Inventor. Engineer. Industrialist. Strategist. Protector.
Severin Gothburn does not seek chaos. He creates order within it. Calm, observant, formidable, and intellectually disciplined, he builds extraordinary machines to solve problems, uncover truth, protect people, and extend human capability.
He is not a sorcerer, monarch, villain, or conventional superhero. His darkness comes from iron, rain, age, machinery, and shadow. His purpose remains honorable.
Beside him is Rook, his raven companion: watchful, curious, and a familiar presence throughout the world of Gothburn. Their company gives the immense Works a personal, welcoming heart.
The governing technology
Period-authentic on the outside. Impossible on the inside.
Every dial, relay, switch, paper record, conduit, and indicator exists to perform a visible function. Select a system below to see how Dresdorph turns information into responsible action.
Explore the four systems that keep Dresdorph working.
Municipal and operational atlas
Calderwake is the city and territory. Dresdorph is one immense ancestral-industrial site within it. Explore the districts, then descend through the four layers of the Works.
City scale · water, streets, neighborhoods, civic systems, rail, industry
Explore a district · Select to read its details
Single site · approximately 1.4 miles across · +420 ft to −240 ft
Explore a layer · Select to read its details
Select a district or layer to open its details. The survey artwork stays in place while the descriptions explain its people, connections, and purpose.
Current studio work
A PC adventure in development, an Android app available now, and a private household system. Different forms of the same purpose: making something worth spending time with.
PC game in development · The World of Gothburn
Beyond the fog, a world of iron, lamplight, and human resolve. The Night Commission is the first major adventure being developed for the persistent World of Gothburn: an inhabited Fathomstorm of immense machinery, living places, and quiet refuge, with Severin and Rook at its heart.
The current opening prototype introduces the journey aboard a packet steamer and arrival at Dresdorph Junction, presented through the ornate Field Console. The images above are captures from that prototype; the full adventure, wider exploration, and final presentation remain in development.
The aim is exploration and meaningful action in a world worth caring about. Engineering, weather, and the people of the Works give that world its depth. Development is focused on PC, with Steam as the intended release destination. Release timing will be shared when confirmed.
In development
Not yet released An opening prototype is in development. The game is not currently offered for public play or purchase. Screenshots show work in progress, not a finished release.Private, offline organization · Android
Tasks, shopping lists, and a calendar in one calm place. Five richly textured themes and Rook’s company bring Gothburn’s character to everyday organization. Your lists stay on your device, with no account, ads, or analytics.
Android · US$2.99 one-time purchase
Get it directly from Gothburn Industries Explore the app, its five themes, eight screenshots, and installation guidance. Explore Rolling ChecklistConnected household system
A central home for the schedules, responsibilities, lists, and information a busy family needs close at hand.
Working project
Private system An internal household command instrument under continued development and practical testing.The real-world studio
Games · Applications · Original worlds
Gothburn Industries™ brings storytelling, visual design, and development together. Its work spans the world of Severin Gothburn and practical tools for everyday life.
Lampmere is the studio’s Bible-focused division: a home for guided Bible study, reading companions, and future resources for reflection and growth.
Severin Gothburn is the fictional namesake and central character. The independent studio is the real creative practice behind the games, applications, artwork, and writing.
“Useful should never have to mean forgettable.”