01
Source before style
When we build on a living tradition, we research it before we stylise it. Deities carry attributes, colours, taboos and praise names that belong to communities who still use them. Getting that wrong is not an aesthetic error.
A story company with an engineering habit.
Tatsuniya Systems is a Nigerian company registered in Lagos to design, build and own interactive entertainment — and to do the software work that makes building it possible.
01 The name
Tatsuniya is Hausa for “folktale”.
It is the word for the stories told to children in the evening — the ones with a tortoise in them, or a spirit at a crossroads, or a king who asks the wrong question.
We chose it because it describes the raw material. Nigeria, and the continent around it, holds an enormous inherited library — Yoruba orisha, Hausa tatsuniyoyi, Igbo cosmology — and almost none of it has been given the production budget, systems design and technical care that other mythologies routinely receive.
The second half of the name is the correction. Systems is the promise that the folktale gets engineered properly: real architecture, real tooling, real release discipline. Stories are the input. Software is the craft.
We are a young company and we say so plainly. Tatsuniya Systems is newly registered and is building its first title now. What follows on this site is what exists and what is intended — nothing more.
02 How we work
Four commitments.
These are the operating rules the studio was set up around.
02
Own the IP
Characters, worlds, engines and brands are registered and held by the company. Owning the asset is what turns a single title into a catalogue that can be licensed, adapted and carried into other media.
03
Ship on real engineering
Version control, code review, staged environments and reproducible builds are not enterprise ceremony. They are the difference between a demo and a product, and they apply to games as much as to client work.
04
Build from Lagos
The studio is Nigerian and stays Nigerian. We hire, commission and train here, on the view that the people closest to these stories should be the ones paid to tell them.
03 Officers
Who is on the register.
As filed with the Corporate Affairs Commission.
Abdullateef Opeyemi Bakare
Founder & Director
Founder and sole director of Tatsuniya Systems, appointed on incorporation. Sets the studio's product direction and leads its engineering work.
Oluwabukunmi Bakare
Company Secretary
Company Secretary, appointed on incorporation. Responsible for the company's statutory registers, filings with the Corporate Affairs Commission and corporate governance obligations under CAMA 2020.
04 Corporate record
Registration details.
Published so partners, platforms and clients can verify us against the public register.
Registered name
TATSUNIYA SYSTEMS LIMITED
RC number
9750197
Company type
Private company limited by shares
Governing statute
Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020
Registrar
Corporate Affairs Commission, Federal Republic of Nigeria
Registered office
411 Road C Close, Gowon Estate, Egbeda, Lagos State, Nigeria
Status
Active
05 Objects
What the company was formed to do.
Summarised from the Memorandum of Association.
A
Interactive entertainment
Designing, developing, publishing, marketing, licensing, maintaining and distributing computer software, mobile applications, video games and other digital and interactive entertainment products.
B
Information technology services
Software engineering, systems development, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, IT consultancy, technical support, digital transformation and related technology services.
C
Intellectual property
Acquiring, developing, owning, registering, licensing, assigning, commercialising and otherwise dealing in copyrights, trademarks, patents, software, source code, databases and other proprietary technology assets.
D
Incidental activities
Research and development, technology innovation, digital content creation, training, partnerships and the provision of related products and services.
See what we are building.
BattleVerse RPG is the studio's first title, in development now in Lagos.