What is Pixelstortion?
Pixelstortion is an independent studio publishing immersive fiction across web, music, and interactive media. Currently presenting two worlds: Silence is the Trauma and Mataala: Nalani. More worlds will follow.
Each character has their own website. Each song is a chapter. The stories are designed to be explored, not just listened to.
World 1: Silence is the Trauma
Ethel Ryker is the biological daughter of billionaire property developer Dominic Ryker. Raised in the outback by her grandparents, she is returned to her estranged father's world at 17 after their deaths. She works from the inside, methodically building a forensic case against him.
Isla is Dominic's stepdaughter. Her mother married him. Isla's own biological father, a high court judge, is the source of the trauma her songs are built from. She turns what happened to her into sound, 140 decibels of it, and calls the stage her witness box.
Dominic Ryker is a structural psychopath. He doesn't break systems. He builds them so that other people break them for him. Calm, articulate, certain. He was imprisoned. He escaped. The story continues.
World 2: Mataala: Nalani
A different century. A different geography. Nalani is an indigenous strategist who reads terrain, law, and timing against rogue trader Turnbull. She prefers reading the system over breaking it, but she does not avoid force when force is what saves her people. Redfern, the overseer, is caught between two worlds.
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Pixelstortion publishes work about people who think their way through situations that don't look winnable, finding the small move that changes the outcome. Each project takes its own form: web, music, interactive, narrative.
The two current worlds both centre on women. That isn't the studio's identity; it's a deliberate choice for these projects. The same careful thinking lands differently when the person doing it isn't the person a reader would picture. That gap is the work. Future projects pursue similar questions through other characters and other forms.
Built by one person, an animator using AI as a production tool to build something too large to build alone.
→ The longer story behind the project