Asher Vollmer (born September 14, 1989) is an American indie video game developer.

[3] Puzzlejuice is a combination of Tetris, tile-matching, and Boggle: players rearrange falling tetromino blocks into rows of similar colors, which turn into letters that are cleared from the board by forming words.

[4][8] Vollmer started as thatgamecompany's "feel engineer" in August 2012,[9] but left in April 2013 to "go indie" and work on his own projects.

Vollmer challenged himself to make a game that only used the arrow keys, and prototyped what would become Threes in ten hours overnight.

[14] In fact, Vollmer and Wohlwend felt that the game needed to appear more complex so as to interest players.

[17] Reviewers found the game "charming"[18][19][20] and "addictive",[15][19][20][21][22][23] and compared it to Drop7 (2009),[22] Triple Town (2010),[18][22][24] and Stickets (2013).

[32] Vollmer explained that the game's name is from castles built too close to one another, starting a mutually assured destruction scenario.

While Vollmer traditionally worked on multiple games at once, Close Castles was his only project when it was in production.

[31] The next month, Vollmer released Royals, a pay what you want simulation game for OS X and Windows.

In February 2016, Sirvo Studios announced Guildlings, a fantasy adventure game, which was later released in November 2019.

[37] In September 2022, Vodeo Games, which employees' Communications Workers of America affiliated union was noted for being in the process of bargaining, closed after "running out of funds".