Made on Gower

3Cliffs is an independent games studio on the Gower peninsula, the stretch of South Wales coast that runs west from Swansea into the Bristol Channel.

We make voxel games for phones, browsers and PC: arena spellcasting in Spellwreck, salvage runs through orbiting junk in Our Future, and wargames for people who like to plan their next move.

The studio is run by Oliver, who came to games from a background in design. That shapes everything we make. A menu gets the same care as an explosion, and a world has to feel good to touch before it gets a story.

We named the studio after Three Cliffs Bay on Gower's south coast: three limestone peaks standing on the sand, a stream winding out to sea and a ruined castle on the hill above. It's the view we want our games to live up to.

South Wales packs a lot into a small space, and for a studio that builds worlds, that's a lot of reference material on the doorstep.

To the north are the mountains of Bannau Brycheiniog and the old industrial valleys. Along the coast are the cities of Swansea and Cardiff, and to the west some of the best coastline in Britain, with the Wales Coast Path never far away when we need to clear our heads.

It's a good place to make games, too. Wales has a growing community of studios and developers, with support from Creative Wales, and we want 3Cliffs to be part of what comes out of it.