redbear.studio

An indie game studio

We make games for people who dream.

Redbear is a tiny studio crafting big-hearted games. We let AI handle the grunt work, so every waking hour goes into story, craft, and fun.

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01 · Manifesto

Ingenuity belongs to humans.

We're not shy about using AI. Build pipelines, asset prep, boilerplate, bug triage — the ten thousand tiny chores that used to eat our weeks. If a machine can do it, a machine does it.

But the things that make a game worth playing — the story, the jokes, the beauty, the one-more-turn feeling — don't come from a machine. They come from people. So that's where our time goes. All of it.

Machines can grind. They can't dream.

AI does the grind

Tooling, pipelines, busywork. The boring parts, automated without apology.

Humans do the dreaming

Story, art, world-building, game feel. Handcrafted by actual weirdos with taste.

You get the good stuff

Reclaimed hours go straight into polish, character, and fun. The parts you remember.

02 · Games

What we're brewing

Our first titles are hibernating in the den. Codenames only for now — they're worth the wait.

In development

Project HONEY

A cozy puzzler with a sting in its tail.

Cozy · Puzzle
Early concept

Project SMOKE

A noir platformer about a dragon who lost his fire.

Noir · Platformer
Top secret

Project ???

Something we're not ready to talk about. (It's very good.)

Genre: classified

First reveals land right here. Say hi if you'd like a peek behind the curtain.

03 · About

Tiny by choice.

Redbear started life as a software consultancy, shipping other people's ideas. Somewhere between the standups and the spreadsheets, we remembered what got us into code in the first place: games. Now that's all we do.

We're a small, fully remote crew operating from across Africa. Small enough that every game gets our full attention — and stubborn enough to make it beautiful.

  • Fully remote
  • Across Africa
  • 100% games
  • Small enough to care

04 · Contact

Say hi.

Playtesting, press, or just talking shop about engines and AI pipelines — we answer our own email.

hello@redbear.studio