Garden Shed Games

Grow Your Games.

Practical technical leadership and hands-on engineering support for game studios and independent developers.

Experienced support for game teams

How can we help?

Flexible senior technical support for game teams, shaped around what you need.

Fractional Technical Leadership

Need experienced technical leadership to help your team grow?

Get senior technical support to shape a practical plan, make confident decisions, and keep work focused on what matters most for your game. We'll help set priorities, scope features, estimate delivery realistically, and make sensible trade-offs between speed, quality, and cost.

Building your engineering capacity takes more than just adding people. We help define the roles you need, hire and support the right engineers, and establish practical standards and ways of working that let the team grow without losing momentum.

Alongside the team, we'll shape a technical strategy, architecture, and infrastructure that fit the stage of your game, delivery needs, and budget.

When needed, we can get hands-on with the code too.

Hands-on Engineering, Prototyping & R&D

Need experienced help turning an idea into a working, shippable part of your game?

Bring Garden Shed Games in to take ownership of a gameplay feature, a prototype or R&D project, a difficult technical system, or the foundations needed as your game and team grow.

We can work alongside your team or lead delivery directly, bringing senior judgement and hands-on implementation from the first decision through to a robust, shippable result.

If you need extra capacity for a milestone, a growth phase, or a period of change, we can plug in quickly and leave the project stronger than we found it.

Unity Performance Optimisation & Technical Rescue

Is your Unity game struggling to hit performance targets, or has a technical problem started blocking progress?

We diagnose the issues that stop a Unity project performing or moving forward - from frame rate, memory, loading, and stability problems to difficult systems and unclear technical priorities. Using profiling and practical investigation, we'll find the root causes and focus on the fixes that will make the biggest difference.

Technical rescue is not only about code. We can also help steady delivery, improve development workflows, and establish clear next steps, so your team can solve the immediate problem and keep building with confidence.

Technical Audits & Independent Reviews

Need an independent view of your game's technology before making an important decision?

We review your code, architecture, tools, infrastructure, and working processes to build a clear picture of your project's technical health. You'll get practical findings: what is working well, what may create risk, and where to focus first.

Useful before a major milestone, a publishing or investment conversation, team growth, or a new phase of development. We'll provide a focused written review with clear recommendations, so you can make the next decision with confidence.

Not sure where to start?

Tell us a little about your project and we'll work out the right next step together.

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About Garden Shed Games

Grown for small teams and indies.

Garden Shed Games was created to help game-makers navigate the technical complexity of turning a great idea into a great game - from the first technical decisions to the teams, systems, and plans that support it.

Small studios, startups, and independent developers are the teams I most enjoy working with. My 15-year career has been shaped by working in environments where people wear many hats; I love their enthusiasm, creativity, and the way each person can make meaningful decisions and see the direct impact of their work. Every project has its own character, and helping a small team bring something new and interesting to life is what keeps me excited about games.

That is why Garden Shed Games combines big-picture technical leadership with a willingness to get into the detail. I can help set direction, build the foundations for a growing team, and then get my hands dirty when a difficult problem needs solving or an important piece of work needs to move forward.

Have a game in the works? I'd love to hear about it.

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Got a great game idea and need technical direction, hands-on engineering, or help making a difficult decision? Get in touch.