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Sad news from the Dino Patti founded studio Jumpship.

Adding: The game hasn't performed well in sales (at least from what you can gage on steamdb.. around 45K sales on steam.. not counting console sales) and also got a moderate reception. And after a long development cycle it doesn't look like a game the will easily break even.
So when things gets tight at the owning companies things will just naturally turn out this way.
The only shield against the rain is creating a massive success. That is obviously much harder said than done.
Best of luck to the former Jumpship devs!

And one could think that Thunderful Games was a bit too quick with their purchase of Jumpship and might have thought they bought the next Playdead. Clearly it was not the case and it should not have been super hard to see.

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Miniatures from Other Tales Interactive has launched. 4,5 years in the making.

Should be more in the line of 'interactive story-movie'.

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Latest devlog from our new officemates Northplay working on Dinolords.

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Absolute classic Valve game, Half-Life 2 is free for the weekend.
As a celebration of the games 20th year anniversary!



Also there is a freshly released documentary on the making.

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Feather 1.0, Looks like a pretty cool 3D sketching tool for the creatives.

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There is a current playtest of Niila Games TagTime.
Might just be this weekend.

Update: Gave it a few rounds of playing against bots. The game's visual world is quite nice and cartoony casually polished.

But at the end of the day I am truly sad to report that I couldn't find the fun part of the game. That should be the most fundamental quality a multiplayer game needs to have. So my personal future projections for the project is not very bright sadly.
A critical mass of players will be hard to find in the competitive world on online games.

But by all means give it a spin for yourself and come to your own conclusions.
Wishing the best but fearing the worst for the project!

Adding: An idea could be do a Roblox or mobile game in the universe. The casual vibe is probably not the best fit for Steam, feels more like a game for small kids.

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Ghost Ship Publishing On the Horizon coming up this Thursday!

See you there! Including a bunch of other DK devs.

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Latest Early Access trailer from Godstone. Almost 8 years in development from DK indiedev Demented Plant.

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Spilbar today!

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So finally it was revealed yesterday that Game Swing's Guntouchables has signed with Ghost Ship Publishing.
Grats to the team! You are in very good hands.

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Allan Kirkeby is designer on the already successful Kickstarter for the board game 'Revenant' from German Mindclash Games.
3 Million DKK in backing so far.. VERY COOL! Grats to Allan and the team!

Btw. recently met Allan at Gamescom '24. Nice chap!

Podcast and article
https://www.papskubber.dk/podcast/reven ... an-kirkeby

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Nordic Game Jam 2025 announced.

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Big grats to Hutlithut Games for releasing Void Crew into out of Early Access as 1.0 today at 18.00 CET!

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This happened!

Void Crew vs. Star Wars Outlaws

Grats again on the 1.0 release!

Adding: I would never have imagined such a small indie studios first game could even think to outperform THE WORLDS LARGEST scifi IP on Steam, developed on a gigantic budget by multiple gigantic studios with decades of experience.
Of cause the games are not directly comparable.. but a noteworthy event regardless!




Hutlihut!

[jonaz.dk]

Very odd
Lets hope it doesnt become the norm for Unity to ban indiedevs for unknown or obscure reasons.
They must know it would be terrible for their already stained reputation.
Thinking some sort of error or otherwise unintended cause?!? It has not stopped them before though, so who knows.

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Dark Sector is now free on Steam for limited time presumably

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Following the release of Rebots, sadly to very low sales.

Good news is that now FlatPonies are hinting at their next project. So awesome to see they are still going strong!
They have been VERY secret about the project around the office. A bit strange.. but nice to see they are showing some concepts now.

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Finally, Fireworks Mania from Laumania gets a multiplayer mode. MP is no easy feat!
I'm sure it will give additional life to the project.

Rough estimate around 150K sales on Steam. Pretty damn good for a solo project!

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New DK DADIU student project 'Death to the Universe' got released on itch.

Death to the Universe
https://fueled-by-cookies-fbc.itch.io/d ... e-universe

Speaking of DADIU. There is a graduation showcase the 5th of December.
https://www.dadiu.dk/calendar/dadiu-gra ... wcase-2024

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Oaken is free for a limited time on GOG
https://www.gog.com/en/game/oaken

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Jesper Juul will be releasing a book on the history of the Commodore 64.
The home compter that I spent and ungodly amount of of time on before I got hold of the Amiga 500 and later Amiga 1200.

Too much fun - The five lives of the Commodore 64 computer.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549516/too-much-fun/

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Speaking of the early days. Luk Hash did a banger Fairlight Cracktro cover.

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Full list of this year DADIU graduation games

https://www.dadiu.dk/news/here-are-this ... tion-games

Cosmic Coup
https://thekatmol.itch.io/cosmic-coup


Beastly Bites
https://thimh.itch.io/beastly-bites


Bloom
https://loft-light-games.itch.io/bloom


End Transmission?
https://patricia-blaymo.itch.io/end-transmission


Death to the Universe
https://fueled-by-cookies-fbc.itch.io/d ... e-universe

[jonaz.dk]

Pretty damn neat looking Procedural Masonry Generator for Blender!

And by todays standard with Nanite I could imagine it should be able to run realtime without problems.



https://blendermarket.com/products/bric ... -generator

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Marketing For Indie Games | Land a Hit Game!


How To Make Indie Games In 2025 w/ Jonathan Blow — Full Time Game Dev Podcast Ep. 024