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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ed
Duke-Cox
Artist
Skilled 2D and 3D artist with over 20 years’ experience, gained across Frontier Developments, Epic Games and more.
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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.
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Keith
Duke-Cox
Artist
Skilled 2D and 3D artist with over 16 years’ experience, gained across Frontier Developments and more.
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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.
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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.
Swords for Hire
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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.
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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.
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Not a Hero
Roll7’s excellent stylish 2.5D side-scrolling shooter. We provided gameplay balancing and support services, and QA across the title.
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Cardboard Sword is a part of the Game Bridge games development community, in the North East of the UK.
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Cardboard Sword is part of the Refresh Teesside digital and creative business community, in the North East of the UK.