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Amble Studio

Expanding minds through the power of games

We are passionate about making beautiful games that positively impact how people feel, think and act. We love the process of bringing games to life through a structured and user-centered approach to achieving outcomes as part of the storytelling journey.

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Our troupe combines decades of experience in professional and creatives contexts, brought together by our excitement about games. Learn more about our experience here.

Our Clients

Together Apart
Enspiral
Results for Development
Playfilled
Thyme Care
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The Amble Podcast

Exploring the connections between games and ways of working

We believe that there is under-explored potential to empower gamers of the world to contribute to positive change in their community or organization. In the Amble podcast, we go deep on these ideas and talk to inspiring guests who are doing the work we want to see.

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Upcoming events

TAG: The Adaptation Game

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TAG is a playful workshop that simulates how you and your community respond to the next ten years of climate change in your town.

Join us to play:

  • Merri-bek CERES event - 18th June 2023
  • Greater Bendigo event - 24 June 2023

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Game Design for Facilitators

Do you have an idea for a game that might make your ways of working more playful? This is the course for you.

Creating story games is surprisingly easy! And we’d love to help you bring this skill into your own work.

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Game Design Mentoring

Continue to develop, playtest and refine your game with the support of Amble Studio game designers.

Perfect for people who have completed the Game design for Facilitators workshop and want some extra support to complete their first creations.

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Testimonials

"I really liked the energy when we roleplayed together."

"Amble's friendly approach makes learning about gaming a joy."

"Amble were great at engaging the group and fostering conversation!"

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Custom skill-building games

In today's workplace, soft skills are more important than ever. But learning and development tools haven't evolved to meet the expectations of a new generation of professionals.

Amble's gameful design process can elevate any skill-building curriculum to make it more engaging, and therefore more effective, for your team.

Teambuilding workshops

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Amble's facilitation team boasts deep experience, with incredible diversity in the kinds of sessions we know how to run.

What's more, we're able to translate this capability online. We use the Gather.Town app to break through video conference fatigue with remote workshops that are adventurous and playful.

Book a meeting to discuss a custom experience, or download information and pricing about our standard half-day workshop.

Our games

We design and publish games that you can play with your team

Tumbledown Grove

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Image description. Example game pieces from Awesome New Project, including role cards, goal cards and action cards.

TAG is a playful workshop that simulates how you and your community respond to the next ten years of climate change in your town.

  • Face imaginary, localised climate disasters
  • Imagine yourself making preparations with your local community
  • Get unstuck in your climate change prep
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Office Heroes

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One day, every appliance in your office turns sentient and starts wreaking havoc. On the same day, you and your colleagues are gifted hilarious superpowers.

Explore how you might work together to respond to a ridiculous office crisis, laughing all the way.

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Tumbledown Grove

Image description. Example game pieces from Awesome New Project, including role cards, goal cards and action cards.

Tumbledown Grove is a game that will help your child open up about their feelings, and have fun doing it.

It's an interactive story that makes your child the main character of their own fantastic tale.

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The Lost Pages...

Image description. Example game elements from The Feelings Game. Elements include dice, feeling cards, map pieces, player pawns, a gremlin pawn and colourful glass pebbles.

The Lost Pages of the Collabonomicon is a trio of short games that each simulate a critical component of teamwork.

Try these games for a fast and fun way to explore soft skills like understanding different perspective, facilitating meetings, and reflecting on work together.

Available on our Itch.Io store.

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Green Hollow

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A team story-telling game that takes you back to an ancient village to spark insights about modern teamwork.

Light on rules, heavy on meaningful moments, and works seamlessly on a video call.

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Truck it in the Cello

Image description. The Truck it in the Cello game board in Trello.

Learn how to use Trello in real time with your colleagues by becoming a team of thieves carrying out a jewel heist!

Truck it in the Cello is a fast teamwork game that teaches you the basics of Trello by playing a game hosted on Trello itself. All you need to play is a Trello account.

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Past prototypes

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We've created lots of games, and not all of them have made it all the way to publishing.

Explore our past work, and maybe you'll find something you'd like to help us take further.

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Fun is on the way

We've always got new ideas taking flight.

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