Welcome to Bold Cat

We connect publishers and brands with veteran creative talent to deliver powerful and pragmatic solutions in game development, digital marketing, transmedia storytelling, and more.

Creativity Enhanced

Bold Cat delivers invigorating collaboration and rapid iteration, highly focused on quality and precision.

We help make your ideas better, quickly!

Your Games Developed

With decades of experience in tabletop and digital gaming, Bold Cat understands the difference between good and great.

We can help you bridge the gap.

Your Brands Upgraded

From initial branding to launch to customer reactivation campaigns, Bold Cat's marketing team helps you understand your customers and reach them where they're most receptive.

Bold Cat Helps You Succeed

We partner with you to deliver
high-quality, goal-oriented results
while being a pleasure to work with.

We partner with you to deliver high-quality, goal-oriented results while being a pleasure to work with.

Our Services

Digital Marketing

We provide customized marketing solutions based on your brand, your customers, and your goals.

Opportunities include SEO, SEM, social media, community building, reputation management, sponsorships, and press releases.

Brand & Promotions

What are your Brand’s strengths; what’s your Share of Voice? Can you identify your strengths and weaknesses in each part of the marketing funnel?

Our strategic assessment and tactical planning will help your business grow and thrive.

Training & Coaching

Enhance your own skillset. Provide your in-house talent with professional support to improve their abilities.

We offer personalized consulting services to help you and your team learn how to get the most out of your agencies and freelancers.

Game Development

With experience spanning from tabletop to console, from TCG to RPG, and from FPS to F2P, we know how to identify when a game is working, and when it needs help.

We can work with you to make your good game into a great game.

Narrative Design

We’ve crafted countless exciting worlds, engaging characters, and thrilling stories across many genres.

We deliver narrative experiences that build audience engagement and user satisfaction while creating treasured memories.

Transmedia Storytelling

Stories don’t live in one place anymore. Your customers want to engage with their favorite worlds and characters in all kinds of media.

We can help you navigate this exciting new vista of creativity.

Gwen Kestrel

Digital Marketing Solutions

Co-founder, CMO

Gwendolyn Kestrel began her marketing career with the Bing Ads Editorial department at Microsoft, and has since mastered the dark arts of SEO, SEM, Google Analytics, and reputation management. Driven by a passion for all aspects of digital marketing, she crafts campaigns that tell compelling stories across multiple channels. When not tending her bold cats, Gwen also teaches digital marketing for several online education and certificate programs.

Credits

Andy Collins

Game Development & Narrative Design

Co-founder, CEO

Andy Collins is an award-winning game designer and storyteller. During a career spanning over 25 years he has worked on tabletop and computer games, and on franchises including Marvel, Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons, The Simpsons, and State of Decay. He collaborates with transparency and empathy to inspire trust and solve problems. Andy lives in the Seattle area with his multi-talented wife and three cats of varying boldness.

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What People Say About Us

Henry Goffin

Principal Software Engineer

There are people who are great in their role, and there are people who are great at team collaboration regardless of their role.

Andy is both.

May 21, 2023

Brian Spielman

Director of Marketing and Brand Strategy at Snap! Mobile

September 26, 2023

Jesse Decker

Game Design Director

Andy gets things done well, 100% of the time.

I'm not sure you realize how rare this "handle anything and make it good" quality is.

November 10, 2023

Kay Rice

Digital Marketing ManDigital Marketing Manager at Dreamweaver Digital

Gwen is able to explain SEO concepts, best practices, tools, strategies, reporting, and auditing in a way that is understandable and useful. Additionally, her commitment to her students' learning and success is unsurpassed. She welcomes questions and is always patient and willing to go into greater depth.

May 12, 2023

Brant Fitzgerald

Art Director and Co-Creator, State of Decay franchise

Andy really cares about making things better … not just the tangibles but the thousand other little things that combine to make a project better.

May 17, 2023

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