Confiction Labs
Game studio co-founded by Agate chairman Arief Widhiyasa and former Agate marketing chief Igor Tanzil, which raised $6.5 million in 2023 as "Mythic Protocol" before rebranding as Confiction Labs and releasing the co-op shooter "Riftstorm."
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- Established
- 2021
- Country
- Singapore
- Known for
- Web3-linked game studio behind "Riftstorm"; launched publicly in 2023 under the name "Mythic Protocol" before rebranding as Confiction Labs
- Chief executive
- Arief Widhiyasa, also Chairman of Agate
- Chief Creative Officer
- Igor Tanzil, formerly Agate's chief marketing officer and chief creative officer
- 2023 seed funding
- $6.5 million oversubscribed round co-led by Shima Capital and Alpha JWC
Overview
Confiction Labs is a game studio led by Arief Widhiyasa, also Chairman of the Bandung video game developer Agate, and by Igor Tanzil, a former Agate chief marketing officer and chief creative officer. The company first became publicly known in September 2023 under the name Mythic Protocol, when the gaming trade press PocketGamer.biz reported that it had raised an oversubscribed $6.5 million seed round co-led by Shima Capital and Alpha JWC, with participation from Saison Capital, GDV Venture, Planetarium Labs, Arcane Group, Presto Labs, Marblex, Emurgo Ventures and Hyperithm, to fund a cross-platform action-shooter roguelite called “Riftstorm” and a blockchain-based asset system then described as “Decentralised Universal Meta” (PocketGamer.biz). BeyondGames.biz, reporting the same round, described the company as Singapore-based and its team as more than 130 people globally, including hires from Microsoft, Samsung and Caravan Studio (BeyondGames.biz).
From Mythic Protocol to Confiction Labs
On March 15, 2024, Tanzil wrote on the company’s own blog that “our entire company is shifting from Mythic Protocol to Confiction Labs,” describing a rebrand intended to carry the same intellectual property into a broader vision the company calls “Collaborative Entertainment,” rather than a change of underlying team or ownership (Confiction Labs, via Medium). In a September 2024 interview, Widhiyasa said he stepped back from running Agate day to day after becoming exposed to web3 gaming in “late 2021,” which he described as the origin of the project that became Confiction Labs (Gaming.net). The company’s own “About” page lists Widhiyasa as chief executive and Tanzil as Chief Creative Officer, alongside an art director, a chief technology officer and a chief product officer (Confiction Labs).
Riftstorm and ties to Agate
Confiction Labs’ flagship game, “Riftstorm,” continued development under the Confiction Labs name. A June 2025 report in the Indonesian financial-news outlet Kontan (via momsmoney.kontan.co.id) described “Riftstorm” as a joint undertaking of Agate and Confiction Labs, quoting Agate chief executive Shieny Aprilia on the potential of Indonesia’s game industry and Widhiyasa, identified there as Confiction Labs’ CEO, calling it “a large-scale project demanding high commitment.” The same report put the investment at more than Rp 100 billion (about $6.5 million, matching the 2023 seed figure), credited more than 120 Indonesian staff, and said a public demo had placed in the Top 50 most-played games during Steam Next Fest 2025 (Kontan/momsmoney). “Riftstorm” entered Steam Early Access on August 11, 2026; the gaming outlet The Magic Rain credited the release to “Singapore-based studio” Confiction Labs after what it called nearly five years of development, and described the game’s setting as a fictional “Mythic Protocol universe” — the origin of the company’s earlier public name (The Magic Rain).
What this profile does not claim
No source read gives an exact incorporation date for the company; “2021” as an origin year rests on Tanzil’s own recollection and on Widhiyasa’s account in a single trade-press interview, not on a company record or a contemporaneous independent report. Sources disagree on where the company is based, with BeyondGames.biz (2023) and The Magic Rain (2026) calling it Singapore-based and Gaming.net (2024) calling it an Indonesia-based studio; this profile does not resolve that conflict. This profile treats Tanzil’s own March 2024 statement as the basis for describing “Mythic Protocol” and “Confiction Labs” as successive names of the same company, because no independent source directly addresses the relationship, though later reporting is consistent with it by describing the same founders and the same flagship game under the newer name. Reported team-size figures (130+ globally in 2023 versus more than 120 Indonesian staff in 2025) are not reconciled by any source read. This profile does not cover the company’s finances, valuation, or any funding activity after the 2023 seed round.
Timeline
- 2021
- Co-founder Igor Tanzil later writes that the venture "began in 2021" around a "Collaborative Entertainment" concept; a separate interview account has Arief Widhiyasa describing his move into web3 gaming around the same period.
- 2023-09-12
- Operating under the name Mythic Protocol, the company announces an oversubscribed $6.5 million seed round co-led by Shima Capital and Alpha JWC, for its game "Riftstorm" and a blockchain asset system then called "Decentralised Universal Meta."
- 2024-03-15
- Co-founder Igor Tanzil publishes a company blog post stating "our entire company is shifting from Mythic Protocol to Confiction Labs," describing it as a rebrand that keeps the original intellectual property while broadening the company's ambitions beyond one game universe.
- 2025-06-11
- A public demo of "Riftstorm," described in the Indonesian press as a joint undertaking of Agate and Confiction Labs, is featured at Steam Next Fest and places in the event's Top 50 most-played games.
- 2026-08-16
- "Riftstorm," credited to "Singapore-based studio" Confiction Labs, is released into Steam Early Access after what a gaming trade outlet describes as nearly five years of development.
What we could not verify
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- Sources disagree on the company's home base: BeyondGames.biz (2023) and The Magic Rain (2026) both describe it as "Singapore-based," while a Gaming.net interview (2024) describes Arief Widhiyasa's venture as an "Indonesia-based game development studio." This profile follows the two sources naming Singapore, but the conflict is not resolved.
- No source read states an exact incorporation date; "2021" as an origin year comes only from Igor Tanzil's own account and a trade-press interview with Widhiyasa, not from a company registration record or independent contemporaneous report.
- This profile treats Tanzil's March 2024 blog statement that "our entire company is shifting from Mythic Protocol to Confiction Labs" as describing a corporate rebrand, since it is the only source read that directly addresses the relationship between the two names; no independent (non-Confiction) source was found that separately confirms or disputes this characterization, though later coverage (Gaming.net, 2024; The Magic Rain, 2026) is consistent with it by referring to the same founders and the same flagship game under the Confiction Labs name.
- Reported team size varies by source and date: BeyondGames.biz (2023) and Games.gg (2024) both cite "130+" people globally, while Kontan/momsmoney (2025) cites "more than 120 local Indonesian talents" — these may reflect different counting methods (global staff vs. Indonesia-based staff) or a change in headcount over time; no source reconciles the two figures.
Sources
7 sources (1 tier 1, 3 tier 2, 1 tier 3, 2 first-party), each opened and read against the claim it supports. Statements the subject makes about itself are marked as such and are not treated as independent evidence. See the source policy.
PocketGamer.biz and BeyondGames.biz, both fetched and read in full, are the only sources independent of Confiction Labs to cover the company's September 2023 seed round while it still operated as "Mythic Protocol"; BeyondGames.biz is treated as supporting-only corroboration of facts PocketGamer.biz already establishes. The company's own blog (a Medium post by co-founder Igor Tanzil) and its official site are used only for the rebrand statement and the current leadership list, both uncontested, first-party facts not treated as sole support for any evaluative claim. Kontan Group's momsmoney.kontan.co.id (a mainstream Indonesian financial news outlet) and the gaming trade press outlets Gaming.net and The Magic Rain, all independently fetched and read, corroborate the company's continuity from Mythic Protocol through the Confiction Labs rebrand to the 2026 release of "Riftstorm."
- Agate dan Confiction Labs Luncurkan RIFTSTORM, Gim Looter-Shooter Buatan Anak Bangsa Supports: Independent confirmation that Confiction Labs and Agate jointly developed "Riftstorm," that Arief Widhiyasa was CEO of Confiction Labs and Shieny Aprilia CEO of Agate as of mid-2025, the reported investment figure and investors, a team size of over 120 Indonesian staff, and the game's placement at Steam Next Fest 2025.
- Mythic Protocol raises $6.5M towards blockchain, collaboration and cross-platform ambitions Supports: The company's founding by Arief Widhiyasa and Igor Tanzil (identified as "ex-Agate CMO and CCO"), the September 2023 $6.5 million oversubscribed seed round, its lead and participating investors, and the "Riftstorm" and "Decentralised Universal Meta" projects, all while the company was named Mythic Protocol.
- RIFTSTORM Launches in Steam Early Access Supports: Confirmation that "Riftstorm" launched into Steam Early Access on August 11, 2026 under developer Confiction Labs, described as a "Singapore-based studio," after nearly five years of development, and that the game is set within a fictional "Mythic Protocol universe."
- Arief Widhiyasa, CEO of Confiction Labs – Interview Series Supports: Independent, interview-based confirmation that Widhiyasa left Agate's day-to-day leadership to start the venture after exposure to web3 gaming in "late 2021," and a description of the company (by then operating as Confiction Labs) as Indonesia-based.
- Mythic Protocol Raises $6.5M For Multi-platform Games, Blockchain And Decentralised Universal Meta Supports: Corroboration of the 2023 funding round and founders, the company's description as Singapore-based, and its reported team size of more than 130 people at the time.
- Let's talk conviction.. Supports: Co-founder Igor Tanzil's own account that the company began in 2021 and his statement that the company was rebranding "from Mythic Protocol to Confiction Labs," used only for this uncontested, first-party fact about the company's own naming history.
- About – Confiction Supports: The company's current leadership list (Arief Widhiyasa as CEO, Igor Tanzil as Chief Creative Officer) and its own description of its products, used only for these uncontested, first-party facts.
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