About MASQWORD
MASQWORD is an independent game studio founded in 2026 and currently based in Austria. We build social multiplayer games for Discord and the web.
MASQWORD was founded by Rostyslav Ostapenko in 2026, founder of the studio and creator of its first game, MASQWORD.
How we build
🎭 Games for voice chat
Everything we make is played together, out loud, in a Discord voice channel. If nobody laughs at the table, it isn't done yet.
🤖 Small team, AI-assisted
We build with AI tools every day: Claude Code helps us write, test and review the game, so five people can ship like a much bigger studio.
⚡ Real-time on the edge
Our games run on Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects, with a lightweight web client (Vite) inside Discord Activities, in three languages from day one.
Our story so far
- Summer 2026 — development of MASQWORD starts; first playtests with friends.
- October 2026 — MASQWORD goes live as a Discord Activity in English, Spanish and Russian; the studio site launches.
- Next — Bunker (working title) and our biggest word game yet.
Team
- RORostyslav OstapenkoFounder, developer
- LPLeonid PavlenkoDeveloper
- IVIvan VorozhunArt direction and production
- IGIvan GavrilovSocial media marketing
- ANAndrei NaniContent creator
Current products
- MASQWORD — playable on Discord
- Bunker (working title) — in development
- Coming soon — in development
Details
- Website
- https://masqword.com
- Founded
- 2026
- Founder
- Rostyslav Ostapenko
- Contact
- contact@masqword.com