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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I've had such an amazing response to Long Jump. Over 250 daily active users so far. Long Jump is a word game where you have to travel as far down the board as possible using only 30 letters (you can pick up more along the way). www.longjump.co.za

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Last night I attended a design event with about 100 creatives or so...

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Yas, I love making games. That is all.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

We all know the internet is constantly changing, and we’re always on the lookout for ways to make content more engaging (and keep people sticking around longer). One big trend that’s been picking up steam lately is interactive content made in @rive.app www.studiobo.io/blog/rive-to...

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Rive to Survive

We’ve been exploring Rive, a tool that lets you create lightweight, interactive animations that keep people engaged way longer than a static image or a simple video ever could.

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Relooted by Nyamakop @nyamakop.co.za · 07/06/2025

Not all treasures are lost… some are just waiting to be reclaimed. Announcing Relooted: An Africanfuturist heist game where you reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums. Please share, & wishlist! youtu.be/KgPxPfXb734 (Wishlist links in next tweet!) @dayofthedevs.org #SummerGameFest

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Relooted Announcement Trailer

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Had a lot of fun paper prototyping a scrabble roguelike with @nekropants.bsky.social who also took this tasty📸

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Making a fully responsive interactive explainer for our studio in @rive.app 🤠

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Learning how to use @gamemaker.io and it's a lot of fun! Still got lots to do but it's been rad to use visual scripting. Coding still absolutely breaks my brain but hopefully just by doing things I will get better.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I loved this short blog post by @grumpygamer.com about Vertical Slices. grumpygamer.com/vertical_sli...

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Stressed day? Break some glass. Angry at your partner? Break some glass. Hate glass bottles? Break some glass. Outraged at the lack of human empathy in this capitalist world we live in? Break some glass. Made completely in @rive.app Break some glass: richardbolland.itch.io/breakglass

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Giant Sword Games @giantsword.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

SQUISH lives! The prototype of our new, joyful, cozy, adventure game is out now! Plant flowers! Go on adorable quests! Make witch-punk BFFs! Create wholesome chaos! giantswordgames.itch.io/squish #indiegame #indiegamedev #cozygames #platformer #farminggames #pixelart

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

We've got lots of fun stuff we're cooking up at Studio Bo! Can't wait to show you what we've been working on.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Where's Wally but with sounds! We made a 'hidden sound' game with Pressure Cooker Studios in a 2-week jam. Give it a play here: hellostudiobo.itch.io/finding-father

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Relooted by Nyamakop @nyamakop.co.za · 29/04/2025

Heyo! We're Nyamakop and we made Semblance, the first true plat- "former" We're finally back on the social media grind and will be keeping you in the loop with kwl things we've done and kwl things we're doing!

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I made a game about bees🐝🥵 in *8 hours* using @rive.app at the Super Friendship Arcade Jam. Concept to deployment, with no code. Whoop whoop! Special thanks to Ben from @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social who made the sick-ass music and @damousey.bsky.social who is making an alt-controller for this game!

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Really loved your 'Third Place' podcast episode @dancorder.bsky.social Totally agree that we need to reclaim those third places. open.spotify.com/episode/2VpJ...

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Thursday - We Are Losing Third Places

The Corder Report · Episode

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

We've now made Kings & Castles completely mobile compatible right from your browser: hellostudiobo.itch.io/kings-castles So if you're reading this on your phone, you should be able to play! 👑🏰

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Kings & Castles by Studio Bo, AshCubed, Rich Bolly

Who will conquer the great Isle of Sheeple?

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Our card escape game is taking shape! Here's a little UI wip I've done.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Over the last couple of years I've found it super hard to concentrate on doing one thing. The only way I get through stuff is by doing 20 things and eventually everything gets done. Perhaps a hangover from constant notifications and distractions that's got my brain working this way?

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I made a new tutorial in @rive.app! Learn how to make an interactive health bar in under 30 minutes! If you make something cool, please share it with me. I'd love to see it! Watch the tutorial here: youtu.be/xUJMLw8L99M <3

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Make an interactive Health Bar in #Rive Tutorial

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Alrighty Bluesky peeps! Kings & Castles has officially launched on @itch.io ! hellostudiobo.itch.io/kings-castles We would really appreciate a share, rating, comment, download or all of the above if you can. Thanks a ton for your support.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

STUDIO BIG DAY OUT! We had a great time in Elgin soaking up the sun, swimming, canoeing, table tennising, eating and napping. We're ready for you 2025!

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Really stoked with what we've been able to come up with over the last 2 years. We're getting so close to making something that hopefully resonates with a lot of people :) The joy of making them keeps us going!

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Paper prototyping continued! This time with the help of a new map and some card sleeves. So so quick to change values and mechanics on the fly.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Exploring some art themes for our dungeon escape card game.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Made a pretty silly game about a crab paying off his debts. It involves urchins and lots of typos. hellostudiobo.itch.io/clawing-thro... Made for #GGJ25 in 5ish days. Always a pleasure working with @ashcubed.bsky.social on this.

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Clawing through Life by Studio Bo, AshCubed

Crab life is tough. Get rich, or die trying!

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Step 1: Create a bot. Step 2: Create another bot to play that bot. Step 3: LET THEM FIGHT!!! Top work from @ashcubed.bsky.social

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I have now upgraded to custom art cards for my paper prototype, a nifty health & movement tracker and Google dice. Still keeping the constraints to just a standard pack of cards & a D6 but have now included two "jokers".

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I love the fact that statistically, no one has ever [truly] shuffled a deck of cards in the same order. The chance of shuffling a deck in the same order is 52! or 8×10^67 (8 with 67 ‘0’s after it). Next time you shuffle a deck of cards, whisper to it that its a unique, strong, independent deck.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This was my favourite video of the holidays. It sparked such an amazing inspiration to build physical prototypes and not let my lack of coding skills get in the way of game design.

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Paper Apps™ GOLF - How to Play

YouTube video by Gladden Design

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We've had 17 animation & game dev job applications & internship requests since the 1st of January. Lots of people looking for work this year. Tertiary education places seem to be graduating roughly around 50 - 80 people collectively year on year. I just don't think our industry can keep up!

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Constraints are a game designers best friend. Came up with a game over the holidays just using a pack of cards and a D6. It's been so helpful keeping the game design within those limits. Makes decision making A LOT easier! Hoping to now convert it into a digital game, but still keep those limits.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Permadeath is something I really disliked when first playing Noita. I felt it was too harsh, too punishing. I couldn't understand the appeal why you wouldn't make a checkpoint or a save feature. But permadeath has weirdly grown on me. I see why people like it now. It's a fresh challenge each time.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Games I'd really like to make this year: 🎲 Dice game with cats that attack, defend, heal & special abilities. 🃏 A deck-builder where you can always discard a card for money/gold. 🖱️Clicker/idle game where you attack enemies by clicking and can setup infantry to do your attacking/defending for you.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Dipping my toes back into work for 2025. What's this year have in store? Hopefully more collaboration, making more small games, and exploring new ways of working. You wanna game jam? Lets do it!

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In 2023 we made 12 games in roughly 12 months. In 2024, we tried to do something different! Instead of making new games, what if we took one of our existing prototypes and remade it 6 times (keeping the good stuff and throwing out the bad stuff).

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Tiny Treats is a tasty snack-builder where you let your inner-chef run wild by fulfilling orders, constructing creative combos, and discovering new ingredients. Don’t play this game hungry or you might eat your mouse! Now available on @itch.io: hellostudiobo.itch.io/tiny-treats

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Tiny Treats by Studio Bo

Tiny Treats is a tasty snack-builder where you let your inner-chef run wild.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If you're a solo dev or small studio who hasn't made a 'successful' game but wants to start building a community for the things you're making, what would you focus on? 1. Public discord channel 2. Youtube channel 3. Insta/Threads/Twitter/BlueSky 4. Newsletter subs 5. Blood oaths and why pls?

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Here's a super rad arcade cabinet we've been decorating for Super Friendship Arcade! Sadly Playtopia, SFA and Ben Beam aren't on this lovely platform yet!

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Two guys! One bus! Africa Games Week!

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

New Studio Bo swag came in today. Low quality garments for low quality games 🫘

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Let me just make a quick temporary asset that I'll 100% change later when I have the time. Never changes it. I am my own worst enemy.

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Richard Bolland @studiobolland.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I can be quite a late adopter when it comes to technology. Somehow the stars aligned and I've been able to jump into Rive in what might be considered 'the early days'. The best part of joining early has been the amount of features that get rolled out on a consistent basis. A new one dropped today!

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