Matchmove Studios
Matchmove Studios makes print-and-play games you finish with a pen: solo journaling games where the rules and the journal are the same PDF, printable escape-room books, and puzzle books for quiet evenings.
Playable Journals are our solo journaling games. One player, two ordinary dice, no app, no cards, and no notebook to find: every prompt has ruled space beneath it. Start with The Night Register if you like it eerie, or The Quiet Post if you like it cozy.
The Locked Room Society books are printable escape rooms: built, solved and checked before a single page goes out.
The studio is run by Manan Mehta (B.Voc in Digital Arts and Animation, Fergusson College, Pune; MBA in Finance, NMIMS). An animator's eye for design, an analyst's discipline with detail and an engineer's respect for things that work: that is the Matchmove standard.
How it is made: AI tools are used extensively in production, for drafting, layout and checking, and every project here carries itch.io's AI disclosure. Manan sets the brief and the design, and reviews, edits, tests and finalises every page. These are original Matchmove Studios games, not resold templates.
Prefer a printed book? Paperback and hardcover editions are on Amazon under the author name Manan Mehta.
