About Us

Video game developer creating high quality indie games and supporting other studios with co-development, work for hire, and outsource services.

Cardboard Sword Board

Aidan
Howe

Producer

LinkedIn

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

Website | Twitter

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

LinkedIn | Twitter

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

LinkedIn

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

Edward
Seager

Animator

Vimeo

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

LinkedIn | Twitter

Skilled 2D and 3D artist with over 16 years’ experience, gained across Frontier Developments and more.

Olly
Bennett

CEO | PR

LinkedIn | Twitter

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

Twitter

Previously ran code outsourcer Jet Stone Studios, now utilises his almost 13 years experience as master of Unreal and our programming guru.

Swords for Hire

Forza Horizon 3

In Forza Horizon 3 you explore Australia, along with more than 350 of the world’s greatest vehicles. We provided contract level design.


Esper 1 & 2

Coatsink’s titles showing off the Samsung Gear VR (powered by Oculus). We provided QA across the title and design feedback on all puzzles.


Not a Hero

Roll7’s excellent stylish 2.5D side-scrolling shooter. We provided gameplay balancing and support services, and QA across the title.

Contact

    Your Name (required)

    Your Email (required)

    Subject

    Your Message

    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.