Mobile games · iOS & Android · Dhaka, Bangladesh
Tembo Entertainment was a small studio that built and published its own minimal, deliberately hard, one-tap games — “quality casual games”, in its own words. Four of them shipped in six months in 2016, and the studio's own trailers are still online.
What we made
Tembo Entertainment built and published its own titles rather than working for hire: design, art and release all handled in-house by a very small team.
The house style was consistent across all four releases. One-tap control, because a game you can play one-handed on a bus is a game people actually play. Endless play, because a score that never ends is a reason to come back tomorrow. Minimalistic graphics, because a small team can only make a small number of things well. And real difficulty — the studio printed “Warning: This game is hard” in its own announcement, and later summarised the whole catalogue as “all our games are hard”.
Unlockables did the rest of the work: Clone Rush hides 21 characters behind the diamonds you collect, Danger Bounce asks you to free the hero's eight brothers, and Wire Switch counts the LEDs you light.
The catalogue
Hue Run in July 2016, Clone Rush in October, Danger Bounce in December, Wire Switch two weeks after that. Danger Bounce is described by the studio as “our third game”, and Hue Run as “our very first Buildbox game” — two statements that agree with each other.
Endless action
An endless casual action game. Run fast, change colour, get invisible and use your instinct. Tap to change lane, stay off the blank space, and avoid whatever is coming.
Endless runner
Run, fly, dodge and clone through a world of spikes. Collect coins along the way and unlock 21 different characters. How far can you survive?
Rhythm bouncer
He may be little, but he is a ninja. His specialty is not the sword — he masters bouncing and hopping through pillars. He does not like simple pillars; he prefers colourful ones.
Circuit runner
Run as an electron through circuits, past cloning chips and resistances. Tap to switch between wires and avoid what is in the way.
A fifth game from the same developer account, Tumble Ranger (June 2017), is documented on the games page — listed separately, because its announcement never names the studio.
In motion
Every title the studio shipped got a trailer, and every one of them survives on the studio's own YouTube channel — a channel that is still publishing the videos it uploaded in December 2016, and the single best piece of primary evidence about these games that exists anywhere.
Each card opens the trailer on YouTube, on the studio's own channel (@temboentertainment7498). You can also play the actual trailers inside this site without leaving the page. View counts are as observed during this reconstruction. Full credit list.
How it was built
Every title was made with Buildbox, a drag-and-drop game engine, and was announced by the studio on that engine's community forum. That choice is visible in the games: simple collision-driven loops, one input, and a lot of value placed on feel rather than on content volume.
A single tap is the entire control scheme. No tutorial, no on-screen buttons, nothing to read before playing.
No level select and no ending. The only progression is your own score and the characters you unlock with the coins you collect.
Danger Bounce was published with the warning “this game is hard” attached, rather than tuned down for a wider audience.
Flat colours, simple shapes and clear silhouettes — a style a tiny team can sustain across 21 unlockable characters.
Tembo Entertainment was both developer and publisher, and stated in October 2016 that it was open to buyers, publishers and partnerships.
Clone Rush shipped to iOS; Danger Bounce shipped to iOS and Android, under the package name com.tembo.dangerbounce.
Status
This site is a reconstruction. It is worth being precise about what survives, because very little does.
It is not known whether the studio still operates. Nothing on this site should be read as a current offer to sell or support any product.
If you played Clone Rush or Danger Bounce, worked with the studio, or hold a build of either title, the rebuild is missing most of what it would need.
