About Us
AAA-experienced multi-talented team with over 160 years of combined experience, creating original IP and providing full-stack development services.
We specialise in the Unreal Engine (with significant Unity experience too) offering strong technical expertise and powerful proprietary tools, for use in our and our clients’ projects.
Contact us for help with your projects: as embedded development staff, for full-project development, or building features for existing projects.

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Aidan
Howe
Producer
17 years experience over 5 companies, in Production, Design and QA. Production Manager on LittleBigPlanet Vita before co-founding Cardboard Sword.

Brendan
O’CALLAGHAN
Ratliff
AUDIO
Composer, sound engineer and programmer with a background in TV/film sound and BBC Radio drama. Moonlights as chiptune artist Syphus in the demoscene.

Chris
Wilson
Designer
Designer on Forza Horizon 1, 2 and 3 at Playground Games, and across several other studios and titles in his 15 year career. Resident car enthusiast.

Ed
Duke-Cox
Artist
Skilled 2D and 3D artist with over 20 years’ experience, gained across Frontier Developments, Epic Games and more.

Edward
Seager
Animator
Animated character & animator of characters. 14 years working on TV, video and games. Took to sprite animation like a pixel duck to a noise-mapped plane.

Keith
Duke-Cox
Artist
Skilled 2D and 3D artist with over 16 years’ experience, gained across Frontier Developments and more.

Olly
Bennett
CEO | PR
Co-founder,17 years of games industry experience from QA to Production, Biz Dev & Management, with some Design and Teaching thrown in. Runs Game Bridge.

Rex
Hancox
Coder
Previously ran code outsourcer Jet Stone Studios, now utilises his almost 13 years experience as master of Unreal and our programming guru.
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Cardboard Sword is a part of the Game Bridge games development community, in the North East of the UK.

Cardboard Sword is part of the Refresh Teesside digital and creative business community, in the North East of the UK.