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Client
Numskull Games
Hazard Pay
A 1982 clean-up job in a Cold War research facility , taken from Godot to PS5 and Switch.
Year
2026
Service
Porting
Website
numskullgames.com/game/hazard-pay/Platforms
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Hazard Pay / / CHALLENGES
The Challenge
Godot has no official console support. Smitner Studio had built a tight, atmospheric puzzler that ran beautifully on PC, and Numskull needed it on PS5 and Switch for a simultaneous launch, with no engine-level path to get there.
Our Role
What We Owned
- Quality Assurance
Our team owned the Quality assurance on the project, ensuring the publisher were confident on the quality of the game across all platforms.
- PS5 Engine layer
Godot ships without a PS5 back-end, so we built one. Godport is our own port layer for the engine, handling rendering, input, audio and platform SDK integration, the version of it used here is the same code we now license to other studios.
- Switch Port
We brought Hazard Pay to Nintendo Switch, adapting the game to the hardware and holding performance steady in handheld and docked.
Hazard Pay / / CHALLENGES
Full Platform Technical Stack
What We Delivered
Platforms
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PS5
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Switch
Engine
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Godot
QA
Functional & Compliance Testing
Certifications
TRC Compliance
Lotcheck Submission Support
Technical
What Made This Hard
No engine-level console path
Godot ships with no console platform export. Every platform system a console expects, rendering, shaders, controllers, audio, storage, trophies. Had to be built into the engine from scratch and built well enough to survive certification and post-launch patches.
01
Shader pipeline
Godot writes shaders in its own GLSL dialect and compiles them at runtime. Neither console accepts that. PS5 needs PSSL, Switch needs NVN, and both want everything compiled ahead of time and shipped in the package. Every shader in the game had to be translated into two proprietary pipelines and come out looking pixel-identical to the PC build.
02
Load times
Godot loads assets the way a PC does: on demand, from a filesystem, at whatever speed the disk gives it. Consoles have their own storage APIs, their own packaging formats and player expectations set by first-party titles. Getting load times where they needed to be meant changing how the game's data was packed and read, not just pointing the existing loader at a different device.
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