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PLAY THE WORLDS. FORGE THE TOOLS.

Ninth Orbit is an indie studio building games and the AI tools behind them. Every pilot, every planet and every beat in our game was made with software we forged ourselves.

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// MISSION SELECT

Choose your mission

In development · Coming soon

Battle Nova

Free to start · full game $4.99

Fold your starfighter into a spinning blade and save the living star at the centre of the galaxy.
Out now · Windows

ImageForge

$79 one-time · no credits, no monthly fee

Your own AI image and video studio. Pictures, short clips and game art, made offline on your PC.
Out now · Windows

MusicForge

$69 one-time · no credits, no monthly fee

Your own AI music studio. Songs, seamless loops and sound effects, made offline on your PC.
Out now · Windows

RigForge

$59 one-time · free 10-day trial

Animate 2D game art and rigged 3D models. Walk, run, punch, then export for your game or Blender.
Out now · Windows

Studiolo

$49 one-time · free 30-day trial

Eight creative and document tools for your PC. PDFs, photo editing, product shots and mockup ads, all offline on your own computer.

// LEVEL 01 · GAMES

Battle Nova

A fast arena battler for Android. Steer a spinning blade-ship, knock rivals out of the ring, unlock nine skills and fight through ten worlds, with a comic-book story told by an old storyteller.

  • 6pilots
  • 9skills
  • 10worlds and bosses

Freeto start · unlock the full game for $4.99, once · planned for launch

In development · Coming soon

Art made with ImageForge. Music, sound effects and narration made with MusicForge.

Two blades clashing in the arena
Clash in the arena
A battle on a burning world
Ten worlds, ten hazards
A comic story panel with subtitles
A story told in comics
The pilot select screen
Choose your pilot

// LOADOUT · SOFTWARE

Power-ups that run on your own PC

No uploads, no waiting in an online queue. Our tools run AI models directly on your graphics card, so your files stay on your PC. Pay once, no subscription. A licence check runs at least every 30 days.

// LEVEL 02 · SOFTWARE

ImageForge

An AI image and video studio for Windows. Describe what you want, pick a style, and it paints it, all on your own graphics card.

  • Image pictures from a sentence, with fast, quality and best modes
  • Video short clips from text, or from your own picture or logo
  • Game assets sprites, icons and effects with see-through backgrounds
  • Edit enhance, restyle or repaint part of any photo

$79one-time · no credits, no monthly fee

Try it free for 30 days Buy a licence · $79

30-day trial with Fast pictures and Enhance. Best pictures, video and the other advanced tools need a licence. Needs an online check every 7 days.

Out now · Windows · Offline · needs an NVIDIA graphics card
Will it run on my PC?
System
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
Graphics card
NVIDIA with up-to-date drivers. Not supported yet: RTX 50 series
Graphics memory
8 GB. Less may be slow or fail
Free disk space
About 14 GB for pictures, about 38 GB with every model
Internet
For the one-time setup download
Tested on
GTX 1080 8 GB, Intel Core i7-6700, 32 GB RAM. Lower RAM isn't tested yet

To find your card: open Task Manager, then Performance, then GPU. ImageForge also checks your card before it downloads anything.

Portrait of an old fisherman with a weathered face
Portrait
A cyberpunk samurai in neon rain
Concept art
A game sprite of an armoured robot soldier
Game sprite
A futuristic mech helmet
Sci-fi
A winter night with northern lights
Landscape

Every picture above was made with ImageForge.

// LEVEL 03 · SOFTWARE

MusicForge

An AI music and sound studio for Windows. Pick a style, describe the moment, and it composes it, from full songs to the click of a button.

  • Songs full tracks up to four minutes, with or without vocals
  • Loops short music loops and stingers for games
  • Sound effects impacts, doors, lasers, whooshes
  • Game-ready seamless loops and even volume, exported as MP3, OGG or WAV

$69one-time · no credits, no monthly fee · $119 with ImageForge

Try it free for 10 days Buy a licence · $69

10-day trial with Quick songs, saved as FLAC. High quality, Loop, Sound FX, seamless loops, Clean up sound and MP3, OGG and WAV export need a licence. Needs an online check every 7 days.

Out now · Windows · Offline · needs an NVIDIA graphics card
Will it run on my PC?
System
Windows
Graphics card
NVIDIA with up-to-date drivers
Graphics memory
8 GB. Less may be slow or fail
Free disk space
About 25 GB on our test PC
Tested on
GTX 1080 8 GB, Intel Core i7-6700, 32 GB RAM. Lower specs aren't tested yet

To find your card: open Task Manager, then Performance, then GPU.

// PRESS PLAY · MADE WITH MUSICFORGE

30-second excerpts. Every note, voice and drum was made with MusicForge.

// LEVEL 04 · SOFTWARE

RigForge

A 2D and 3D character animator for Windows. Bring your game art or a rigged 3D model, press an action, and fine-tune it by hand.

  • 2D turn your game art into animated characters and sprite sheets
  • 3D open a rigged GLB or FBX and get walk, run, jump, jab and cross
  • By hand pose bones and groups, and apply a change across every pose
  • Play and export build a scene, drive your character, then export GLB, BVH or OBJ for Blender and game engines

$59one-time · no credits, no monthly fee

Try it free for 10 days Buy a licence · $59

10-day trial with nothing limited. Needs an online check every 7 days. When the trial ends, exporting stops but you can still save your project.

Out now · Windows · Works offline after the trial check
Will it run on my PC?
System
64-bit Windows. Tested on Windows 11 Pro. Windows 10 isn't tested yet
Graphics card
No AI models and no engine download, so it doesn't need the NVIDIA setup. Only tested on NVIDIA so far
Free disk space
437 MB once installed
Internet
For the trial and licence check
Tested on
GTX 1080 8 GB, Intel Core i7-6700, 32 GB RAM. Lower specs aren't tested yet

The free 10-day trial is the best way to check it on your own PC.

RigForge animating a 3D character on a timeline
3D animation
RigForge scene builder
Scene builder

// LEVEL 04 · SOFTWARE

Studiolo

A creative and document studio for Windows. Make it, sign it, ship it: eight tools for PDFs, photos and ads, and your files never leave your computer.

  • Documents combine PDFs and images, fill and sign forms, convert between JPEG, PNG, WebP, TIFF, PDF and more
  • Image editor layers, masks, glows and shadows, retouch brushes, 30 pro looks, text, and PSD files
  • Background removal one click, with an AI model that runs on your own PC
  • Selling product photo studio, mockup ads in 10 real-world scenes, collages, and batch edits for whole folders

$49Pay once, no subscription. A licence check runs at least every 30 days.

Try it free for 30 days Buy a licence · $49

Version 2.4.3 · Windows 10 and 11 · 114 MB installer · 30-day trial with some features locked and a quick online check every 7 days, then one $49 licence code unlocks everything

Studiolo Mockup ads: a summer sale ad placed on a highway billboard
The Studiolo home screen with a drop-any-file port
Drop any file, get the right tool
The image editor with pro looks for a photo of a fox
Image editor with 30 pro looks
The product photo studio
Product photo studio
Filling and signing a PDF
Fill and sign PDFs
Batch editing a folder of photos
Batch photos

// LICENCE

Free for 30 days, then one licence

  1. Try it freeInstall Studiolo and try it free for 30 days, with no code and no account. The trial starts after one online check and runs once per PC. It opens the main tools with some features locked and a small mark on saved images. The product studio, mockup ads, batch photos and most pro looks need a licence.
  2. Buy once, activateBuy a licence for $49. We email you your code. Enter your name and code in Studiolo once, while online, and every tool unlocks.
  3. CreateStudiolo then works offline too. No account, no trackers, and your files are never uploaded.

// LORE

We forge our own gear

Ninth Orbit Software is an independent studio making games and creative software. We build the tools first, then use them to make our games, so every tool is tested on real work before anyone else touches it.

Battle Nova is the proof: its pilots, worlds and comic panels were painted with ImageForge, and its soundtrack, sound effects and narrator were made with MusicForge.

// CONTRACTS · BUILD WITH US

We build for you, the way we build for us

The same studio that forges its own tools can build yours. Tell us what you need and we'll quote it. We assign to you the rights we hold in what we make for you.

01

Websites

Fast, custom sites with real features, like sign-ups that email a download link the moment someone joins.

Proof: this site.

02

Apps and tools

Windows apps and web tools that do one job well: offline if you want, with licence codes if you sell them.

Proof: Studiolo, eight tools in one Windows app.

03

Games

Android games and prototypes, from the first playable build to beta testers sending feedback from inside the game.

Proof: Battle Nova, now in development.

04

Art, music and sound

Game art, icons, music loops and sound effects for your project, made with our own ImageForge and MusicForge.

Proof: Battle Nova's pilots, worlds and soundtrack.

  1. Tell usSend the quote form below, or email what you want to build and who it's for.
  2. Get a quoteWe reply with a plan and a price before any work starts.
  3. Build and reviewYou see it as it takes shape and tell us what to change.
  4. LaunchWe hand it over and help you get it live.
Start a project

// SAMPLE WORK

Sample sites we built

Fictional businesses, built to show what we can make for you.

Get your download

Tell us where to reach you and your download starts straight away.

We keep your email and answer so we know who is trying our apps and can reach you about them. We don't sell your details. We use a few service providers to run the site, listed in our privacy notice. To be removed, email dan@ninthorbitsoftware.com. See also our terms and refund policy.

// REQUEST A QUOTE

Get a quote

Tell us about your business and what you need. We reply with a plan and a price before any work starts.

Prefer email? dan@ninthorbitsoftware.com

We keep your name, email and message to reply to your request and keep track of it. We don't sell your details.

Privacy notice

// COMMS

Open a channel

Questions, ideas, or want to test something early? Write to us.

dan@ninthorbitsoftware.com