Co-development is a collaboration between studios to build a single game by sharing responsibilities—design, art, programming, audio, and more. Doing so reduces risk and accelerates time‑to‑market. At ADEN, we don’t just fill tasks; we bring full ownership, vision alignment, and execution across multiple disciplines.

We plug into your team with hands-on expertise across design, art, and tech. No hand-holding, no friction—just experienced people getting things done.

You get an embedded team with real experience across design, tech, and art—ready to move fast, solve complex problems, and produce high-quality work without the overhead of hiring, training, or micromanaging.

We understand games from top to bottom. We don’t just take tasks—we think with you. Concept, experience, visual, UI, design—we own the whole player journey.

When you need a team that can challenge ideas, align with your goals, and deliver without friction. We’re best for studios looking for real collaboration—not just task outsourcing—and who value autonomy, clarity, and cross-functional strength.

Well-structured teams, good project managers, and clear goals. We work independently and don’t need hand-holding—just direction and trust.

New IPs, vertical slices, gameplay-heavy prototypes, stylized or technically ambitious games—especially those needing strong alignment across design, art, and tech.

We don’t take on projects focused on sexually explicit content, gambling mechanics, or exploitative models like play-to-earn. We work on games that respect players and reflect thoughtful design values.

Yes. Our sub-branch, Aden X, focuses on custom game branded experiences, interactive experiences, apps, extended reality (XR), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and location-based experiences.

These projects are handled by a dedicated team at Aden X, allowing us to explore new formats without affecting our full commitment to game co-development and production.

We’ve delivered strong results accross entertainment, advertisement, retail, culture, technology and education. Building end-to-end solutions, combining creative design, game strategy and technical expertise, and bringing bold ideas to life.

https://www.adenxr.com

We focus on action games, roguelikes, and narrative-driven titles with depth—usually it’s unique game world fantasy or sci-fi. If the game’s about more than just mechanics—if it has values, vision, or a real world—we’re a good fit.

We’re comfortable working across styles towards the more realistic and the more stylized, as long as the art direction is strong, intentional and well-executed.

We cover design, gameplay programming, UI/UX, game art (2D/3D), animation, tools, networking, and much more. For larger projects, we can fully own creative direction, art direction, or even lead core development. We’re flexible—whether you need a feature partner or a team that drives full pillars.

We support all stages of development—from early concept to post-launch. In pre-production, we help define the vision, structure ideas, and create strong documentation and prototypes. During production, we integrate across teams to deliver design, art, and tech with speed and consistency. We’re experienced in building vertical slices that prove gameplay and tone, and we handle polish and optimization to make sure the final product feels complete. Post-launch, we support with updates, fixes, and LiveOps when needed. Wherever we’re plugged in, we bring clarity, execution, and real contribution.

Primarily Unreal and Unity. We also handle proprietary tools, frameworks, custom pipelines, and middleware like FMOD/Wwise. We’re comfortable adapting fast.

We’ve built and supported networked multiplayer titles, including backend, matchmaking, and real-time features. Both with custom servers our using popular choices like Photon, SocketWeaver, PlayFab and Mirror

We support mainly PC and console platforms. We’ve done mobile projects, but our focus is on games with larger scope and longer play cycles.

Clear scope, mutual respect, and reliable communication are key. We avoid misalignment by defining responsibilities early, syncing regularly, and adapting to your workflow—no surprises, no overhead.

We’re based in Portugal (GMT+1), with shared working hours across key European hubs like London, Paris, Berlin, and Stockholm. We maintain flexible overlap with North America and Australia when needed, and prioritize asynchronous updates, version control, and clean documentation to keep everything running smoothly.

Co-development with ADEN typically starts with a discovery phase, followed by documentation, prototyping, and full production. We can lead or support vertical slices, polish, QA, and post-launch. 

We manage projects through our internal platforms but can easily integrate with your existing tools and workflows. Whether it’s Slack, Notion, Jira, or others—we adapt to keep collaboration smooth and clear.

Our team is built for speed and precision. Small, focused, and tightly coordinated, we move fast—especially in early-stage development and iteration-heavy phases. You’ll be working with people who understand the project from day one and stay involved until the job is done.

We regularly work under NDAs and handle confidential projects with professionalism and discretion.