Roll7 is a remote UK videogames studio
Relax!We've been making our own breed of games since 2008!
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All the causes we support
At Roll7, we believe that it’s important to give back. Over the past few years we’ve walked, cycled, hiked, done a gaming marathon, taken students into the office for work experience and more in aid of the following causes:
SpecialEffect
Our current charity of the year, SpecialEffect, work to support people with physical challenges right across the world through the innovative use of technology. Watch this space for our next charity fundraiser!
Talentino
We took part in the Diverso initiative, providing work experience to young adults with special education needs and disabilities.
Mermaids
Mermaids is a UK-based charity who work to support transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children.
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Rolling back the years
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2009
2008
2007
2003
1996
1985
2023
We won a bunch of awards, including Rollerdrome winning a BAFTA. Everyone is very excited. Nobody has prepared a speech.
2022
OlliOlli World and Rollerdrome released within a few months of one another. The teams hit all milestones on time with no crunch. More surprisingly, drunken skating occurs at both launch parties and nobody breaks any limbs.
2021
Roll7's critical success and ongoing working relationship with Private Division leads to the company being acquired. Our staff are resoundingly delighted to discover that there are free Kinder Bueno in the T2 offices.
2020
A tough year is made a little easier with extra online team fun events, snacks and drinks sent out to people’s homes, and plenty of chats and check-ins when needed.
2019
Prototyping on OlliOlli World and other magic continues. Roll7 bessie mates give us feedback at Gamescom.
2018
Paul Rabbitte shares GIFs of a zany new skater-shooter he's been creating on Twitter.
2017
Laser League is released into early access, to critical acclaim.
2016
Roll7 goes remote. People spend less hours on sweaty tubes and more time petting their cats, which is widely regarded as a win.
2015
OlliOlli wins a BAFTA. Tom and Simon are forced to admit that they might be real game devs.
2014
After much persuasion from John, Roll7 take the plunge and release an original commercial IP, OlliOlli. Tom and Simon remain doubtful - will the game be a success? Are they really REAL game devs? Don't they need more money, and a bigger studio, and fancier connections?
2009
Roll7 continue work on various projects, and in 2009 start creating games for the Neurosky Headset - a brain-computer interface. These games include Focus Pocus, which aims to help improve concentration in children with ADHD.
2008
The birth of Roll7! From 2008-2013 the team work as guns for hire, creating short games, marketing content, and more. They have no idea what they are doing.
2007
RollingSound finds a new game course tutor in John Ribbins. He listens to the same music as Simon, so immediately gets the job.
2003
RollingSound was born, providing digital creative courses - covering anything from photography, to music production, and more - to young people in the inner city.
1996
Their first joint creative endeavor (other than making LEGO bases). Tom's first band would later go on to support Greenday and Foo Fighters without him. Tom and Simon's band would go on to become a frequent answer in the 'fun fact' round of Roll7's year-end quiz.
1985
While Roll7 wasn't founded until 2008, Co-Studio Heads, Tom Hegarty and Simon Bennett, met a few years before that...
We've picked them out in this school pic!
We've picked them out in this school pic!
