Every character starts on paper.
We fill sketchbooks before we open Blender.
How we got here
We didn't start Brainwave because the market needed another studio. We started because no one was building the kind of playful, slightly weird, hand-made games we wanted to play after dinner.
In the beginning there was one sketchbook: pages of bears with wings, broken physics puzzles, dialogue we'd never use. Our first Unity build crashed on launch. The second one crashed when you jumped. The third one finally made a kid in Dhaka laugh for five straight minutes. That was enough.
We learned quickly: shipping matters more than perfect. So we ship. We sketch, we prototype in a day, we playtest on Fridays, we throw away most of it. What stays is what feels good.
2023
A sketchbook and an idea
Two friends, one room, 100 bad ideas. We kept the good 3.
2024
First playable builds, first players
Kids in Dhaka, friends in Dhaka playtesting. Our first small client projects to keep the lights on.
Today
Small team, building for clients and ourselves
5 people. Still small on purpose. We make games for others and a few secret ones for us.
We don't have a fancy HQ. We have two desks, a lot of plants, sticky notes in Bangla and English, and monitors that stay on too late.
