6 wks
TIDE PROTOCOL
Co-operative deep-salvage game. Whiteboard to a playable vertical slice in six weeks; two publishers asked to see it a second time.
Vertical slice · Unity 6
(01) Independent studio
Haverfordwest · SA61
Unity · Unreal · Web
Most game projects die somewhere between the pitch deck and the first build that runs. We work the other way round: every fortnight you get something you can hold a controller to, install on a phone, or hand to a publisher.
Shader study — subsurface pass 07
Internal R&D · 2026
(02) The studio
- First build shipped
- March 2019, 11:40pm, on a train
- Nightly builds
- 1,438 green · 61 red · none skipped
- Team
- 6 — four engineers, one artist, one producer
- Engines
- Unity 6 · Unreal 5.4 · TypeScript / WebGL
- Longest bug
- Nine days. One comma, in a shader
- Projects cancelled
- One, in 2018 — it is why this studio exists
- Working
- UK-wide, remote-first, on site when it matters
We keep the build running.
With Garnet is a games and software studio on the Cleddau, and it exists because of a bad year. In 2018 three of us spent eleven months on a project that produced concept art, a design bible and a schedule — and not one build a player could open.
That project was cancelled in a twenty-minute meeting. Nobody argued, because nobody could point at anything that worked. We started With Garnet in March 2019 with one rule carried over from it: the first sprint ends in a build, and so does every sprint after that. The studio was incorporated as With Garnet Ltd in 2025, when the contracts got big enough to need a company behind them.
The company is young. The team is not. With Garnet Ltd has existed since 2025; the six of us have been shipping together since 2019, and four of us shared an office in Cardiff for three years before that. Between us that is thirty-one years of released work across PC, console and mobile. What a new company buys you is a clean balance sheet, not a crew learning each other's habits on your budget.
Most studios our size sell day rates. We sell milestones — a day rate quietly rewards the wrong thing.
Today the studio is six people. Four write code, one makes everything look like it belongs together, and one keeps publishers, platform holders and certification queues off the engineers' desks. We take on four projects a year. That number is not a scarcity tactic; it is how many builds six people can keep healthy at once.
There are things we turn down. We don't take art-only outsourcing, we don't quote a fixed price on a design nobody has played, and we won't start a project where the first milestone is a document. If a brief arrives shaped that way, we'll say so on the first call rather than three invoices later.
Elin Prosser
Studio director · gameplay code
Marged Rhys
Art lead · shaders and look-dev
Tom Callaghan
Producer · certification and release
Working principle
A build somebody can play beats a document that describes one.
(03) What you can commission
Six things you can put on a purchase order.
Each one is priced as a milestone with a written definition of done. Tap a row to add it to the enquiry form below.
Prices are a guide. Every quote is scoped after a free build review and holds for 30 days.
Playable prototype
from £8,500
Two to five weeks. One loop, one build, one device. You end with something you can hand round a table and a written verdict on whether it deserves funding.
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Vertical slice & pitch build
from £24,000
A publisher-ready section at final quality: the core loop, one finished level, a capture pass and a signed build for every platform you intend to pitch to.
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Full production — Unity or Unreal
from £62,000
Green-lit design to store-ready across PC, console and mobile. Priced per milestone, reviewed every fortnight, never billed by the day.
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SaaS & web application build
from £14,500
Player portals, operator dashboards, booking and back-office tools. TypeScript and Postgres, with a handover document another team can actually work from.
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Porting & platform certification
from £6,400
Steam, Switch, PlayStation, App Store and Play. We take the submission paperwork, the rejections and the resubmissions off your producer.
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Live-ops & post-launch
from £1,150 / month
Patches, telemetry, seasonal content, and an engineer on call through launch week.
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VAT is not currently charged. Milestone invoices are issued on acceptance and due within 14 days.
(04) Selected builds
Five projects, and the number that mattered on each.
2 stores
ORRERY
A puzzle game about broken clockwork. Steam and Switch releases fourteen days apart.
Full production · Unreal 5.4
3 loops
SALT & SIGNAL
A radio-drama roguelike. Three loops prototyped, two discarded on the evidence, one funded.
Prototype · Unity 6
1 command
GARNET KIT
Our own build pipeline: one command, five platforms, signed, versioned and uploaded. Licensed to two other studios.
Internal tooling · open licence
90 days
HARBOURLIGHT
Booking, crew rostering and tide-window software for a Pembrokeshire boat operator. Kickoff to live in ninety days.
SaaS build · TypeScript
Bring us something that doesn't compile.
We'll tell you what it costs to make it run — on the call, not in a follow-up email three days later.
(05) Get in touch
Talk to the people who write the code.
- [email protected]
- Telephone
- +44 7828 778 805
- Registered office
- With Garnet Ltd
22 Freemans View
Haverfordwest
SA61 1LG - Studio hours
- Monday to Thursday, 09:00–18:00 · Friday, 09:00–14:00
- Reply time
- One working day. Launch weeks excepted, and we'll say so in the auto-reply.