Help the creators of Rolando with our next game. Join the small team in our central London studio to help create our forthcoming downloadable console title, Okabu. Using our in-house tools, you will help craft a hyper-tactile toybox world filled with a huge number of puzzles, playthings, adorable creatures and devious machines.
In addition to level design, you will contribute to the overall design of Okabu, suggest new gameplay features, help with user testing, and being a small team probably all manner of other things.
We’d consider the position on either a contract of permanent basis. Passion for creating great games a must! We’d love to hear from you – drop us an mail at hello@handcircus.com.
We are delighted to have moved our online selves into this brand new home, and are busy unpacking after the amazing decoration, design, architecture and construction efforts of Pete, Daniel and Mikko. Its going to serve us well for delivering all HandCircus news, screens, trailers, and videos of cute animals doing unexpected things that we find on the internet.
For the last nine months we’ve been busy working on our new game Okabu, building a brand new world, and creating all manner of exotic characters, creatures and contraptions to fill it with. It’s been a more ambitious undertaking than our previous games, but we’re really excited with how its been progressing and can’t wait to show it off a little later this year. For more information, keep an eye on this blog and on our Twitter Feed.
There’s already a few clues dotted around the site – take a look at the big image at the top and you might see a few characters you don’t recognise!
Our first game, Rolando, launched on the App Store exactly a year ago today. Its been an incredible year for us – the reception to Rolando (and Rolando 2) has been really overwhelming! From being featured in the Apple TV adverts and getting a “9″ in Edge magazine, to the many messages and fun Rolando drawings/ collages/ cakes/ toys that players have sent through – it really has been a dream come true. We’d love to say a huge thankyou to everyone that bought the game and supported us! You guys rock, and we hope that in 2010 we can serve up several helpings of fun with our new game, Okabu, and with new adventures in the Kingdom of Rolando.
As a small token of appreciation, we have a new Rolando 2 iPhone wallpaper for you to download. We hope you all have a great festive period and a very happy new year.
Halloween is coming up and to celebrate, we’ve created some Rolando pumpkin carving patterns! Click the pattern you like below to download the PDF, print it out, and get creating!
Rolando 2 is now available in the App Store! A huge thankyou to Mikko Walamies, Matt Roberts, Chris Plummer, Joe Allen, Andrew Hynek, Micah Wright, Mr Scruff, Matt Bell and everyone else that worked so hard to bring the Isle of Fontanis to life.
Rolando 2 has been picking up some great reviews and awards, from the 9/10 (and Editors choice award) from IGN to the App of the Year and Best Adventure Game from the AppAdvice App Awards.
If thats not enough, we were also nominated for Best New Studio at the Develop Awards!
Stay tuned for more exciting news from the Kingdom of Rolando, and news on new titles from HandCircus. Its going to be a fun 2009!
To celebrate the impending release of Rolando 2, we’re pleased to release the first in a series of iPhone wallpapers! Click the thumbnail, then on Mobile Safari, press and hold the image and choose “Save Image”. Then you can select it from the “Photos” App. Enjoy!
Check out the Rolando 2 : Quest for the Golden Orchid website at rolando2.ngmoco.com, and come back every Monday as we reveal all of the new characters, environments and gameplay for the sequel, coming to iPhone and iPod touch this summer!
Apologies for the lack of updates here on the HandCircus blog, for more frequent news (interspersed with such fascinating twit-topics such as my lunch routine and my weekend recreational activities) I would highly recommend checking out the HandCircus Twitter Feed.
There are currently many fronts of activity on the Rolando front. Our Rolandos have been spotted far and wide over the last few weeks, from a variety of London Papers, to the Telegraph and the BBC.
A variety of other updates…
Rolando 1.1 (the first Rolando update) is out! This one includes 5 brand new “secret” levels for you to explore and sink your teeth into, and I can confirm that there are more free levels snapping at the heels of the 1.1 update…. stay tuned
A talk that I gave at This Happened waaaay back in March last year is now online here. If you are curious about how Rolando came to be, this may well be of interest
I’m giving a talk tomorrow (20th March) at the V&A, as part of the “Big Create does…. digital” for 11-19 year olds, talking about Rolando and creating games for the iPhone
Rolando 2 is coming along very nicely, and I’m really excited about how its turning out. There are SO many new things, I can’t wait to share them with you.
Help the creators of Rolando with our next game. Join the small team in our central London studio to help create our forthcoming downloadable console title, Okabu. Using our in-house tools, you will help craft a hyper-tactile toybox world filled with a huge number of puzzles, playthings, adorable creatures and devious machines.
We are delighted to have moved our online selves into this brand new home, and are busy unpacking after the amazing decoration, design, architecture and construction efforts of 
