BopZilla Studios

Country: South Africa

Founded: 2025

Platforms: PC, Mobile, Board Games, Card Games

Focus: Game development, tabletop games, narrative design, prototyping

Status: Active

Website: TBC

Overview

BopZilla Studios is an independent South African game development studio focused on creating original experiences across both digital and analog platforms. Its work spans video games, board games and card games, with an emphasis on unconventional ideas, strategic gameplay and player-focused storytelling.

The studio works across multiple areas of game development, offering game design and development using Unity and Unreal Engine alongside analog game design, narrative and worldbuilding, prototyping and publishing consultation.

BopZilla's portfolio and development work cover a broad range of genres and formats, from mobile games and roguelite experiences to themed tabletop strategy games. The studio positions itself around experimentation and creating games that combine distinctive visual, narrative and mechanical ideas.

Its hybrid focus on digital and tabletop development gives BopZilla a somewhat unusual position within South Africa's games ecosystem, particularly as many local studios concentrate primarily on video game development.

Services

• Game design and development
• Unity and Unreal Engine development
• Board and card game design
• Game narrative and worldbuilding
• Prototyping
• Publishing consultation

Key People

• Za’ yaanah Albertyn
• Brendan Jackson