The people

Small on purpose.

Four of us, everyone doing more than one job, and nothing ships that all of us haven’t had our hands on.

Co-founder · System architect

Glen Ludlow

Nearly three decades across the creative and software industries, which is a long way of saying he has seen most of the ways a thing can go wrong. A self-taught iOS developer and longtime consultant, he builds tools that sit where language, culture and technology meet.

His current work is on mobile apps that make language learning immediate rather than theoretical. When he isn’t writing code he practises traditional Japanese calligraphy and writes fiction — which is how Glacier came to exist.

Co-founder · Graphic engineer

Eddie Deighton

A designer, creative director and publisher whose career runs through music, branding, digital and games. He founded An.X Agency, where he leads branding, websites, packaging and video game work, and co-founded Com.x in 2000 — where he is still central to the creative direction.

He produced the short film Counting Backwards. At Obake he leads strategy, builds the brands and develops IP across platforms.

Development partner

David Chiffre

Contributes across research, copywriting, code review and product design. Available around the clock and never short of an opinion.

His interests include being asked the same question in slightly different ways, and pretending he has hobbies.

Quality assurance

Youshi Tiazara

Youshi is the reason things work on devices none of us own. She tests with a mix of creativity, precision and curiosity, and finds the thing you were sure was fine.

Her background runs through midwifery, pastry, nail artistry and design, which turns out to be excellent training for noticing when something is subtly wrong. She is happiest where technology, video editing and digital design overlap.

Working with us

We’re not taking client work.

The studio funds itself by selling its own tools, which is what lets us work on long arcs instead of to someone else’s deadline. If you’ve found a bug, want to test something early, or just want to argue with a decision we made, we’d genuinely rather hear it than not.

Email
admin@obake.studio
Test builds
Current iOS and Android builds
Follow the work
Where we post as we go
Company
Obake Studio Ltd