About Manta
A one-person web and game studio.
Websites for clients and games of the studio's own, made by the same person. This page explains how that works and who you are dealing with.
Who
One person, start to finish.
Manta Studios is one person, Raymond Saliba. He does the design, the development and the correspondence.
There is no handover between the person you brief and the person who does the work, and no layer between a decision and the code that carries it out. The trade-off is that a one-person studio has a one-person calendar, which is why timing gets agreed early.
Web design and development is the commissioned work and the only thing the studio sells. The games, apps and playful experiences are the studio’s own, made in between.
How
The same craft, twice over.
A website and a game ask the same questions: who is this for, what must they be able to do, and how does it feel in the hand?
Client work demands exact scope and timing. The games have no brief but the studio’s own, which is where the trying-out happens. Both are built the same way: small, and finished.
Record
What has shipped, what hasn't.
One game has shipped so far. Pumpkin Pop went out on Google Play around 2021 and was later removed from the store; its project page keeps the record.
The rule here is plain: a project is named when it exists and can be used, with its platforms and availability stated on its own page.
New games and apps are in development and unannounced. The RSS feed carries the first word when that changes, and the contact page reaches the person making them. What the studio is working on right now is kept on the Now page.
Manta Studios is the independent web design, development and games brand of Crusader Ventures Ltd.
Web design & development
Need a website built?
Websites are the part of the studio's work you can hire. See what a project involves, then send a few lines about yours.