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[jonaz.dk]

New game 'Cyber Rats' announced from Ree Animation. Now known as Outpost Games.

He has been doing a bunch of work on a 2D platformer 'The Adventures of Gorm' and some other side projects around racing games.

But guess the new thing and focus is on Cyber Rats now!

[jonaz.dk]

Neighbors is currently in playtest mode.

And launchung the 17th of April in EA

[jonaz.dk]

Casual release from Tactile Games. Simon's Cat Match!

Looks like it is a collaboration with a 'newer' studio Tactile Games UK.

Also looks like one is a series of releases that have been flying under my radar with titles like Simon's Cat Crunch Time, Pop Time and Story Time. The UK studio is pretty much the Simon's Cat studio.

Ratings are looking VERY good. 4.9 on both platforms!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... nscatmatch
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/simons-ca ... 6446643679

Source:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tactileg ... 64354-Numi



Another Tactile (DK) title I missed is Makeover Match - Fashion Game. It has been out for a while now.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... rchallenge

And across the board from what I can see in public figures the company and it's entire portfolio is performing well though with a lack of recent hits. The big hits are hard to land, but certainly still going strong!


Also found a couple of "secret titles" Mystery Manor Murders from 2020 that probably never made it out of soft launch? There only seemed to be a few updates.
https://apkpure.com/mystery-manor-murde ... nsionstory


The most "secret project" or you might say unknown project I found, is from a Tactile spinoff company dealing in more romantically themed games. Peach Perfect Games ApS was created in 2022 to handle this. One title has made it to release so far 'Match Stories - Romance Game'

The iOS app page can still be found. The Android page is gone.
https://apps.apple.com/kg/app/match-sto ... tform=ipad

Not really sure Peach Perfect Games ApS is still an active development studio though. Also linkedin seems to indicate actual development was not taking place in Denmark.
** I really like the company name though.. very cheeky!

Always fun to dig around in hidden games history!

[jonaz.dk]

There is a new version of the old Painkiller game in the works. The original franchise was developed by People Can Fly.

This time developed by Polish Anshar Studio and being published by (DK) 3DRealms. Not sure how much of the original staff are involved in the project but it would be somewhat within the realm of possibility to think that some of the old talent could be potentially be on the project. Though much water has passed under the bridge.

Steam community comments are somewhat reluctant based on recent 3DRealms history etc. Game looks pretty slick though! Let's hope they make a splash!

[jonaz.dk]

Today is release day for (DK) Demented Plants' pixel platformer Godstone! 8 years in the making!
Grats and well done with making it to release!

[jonaz.dk]

Oh.. late to the party I guess.. but there is a neato looking free Substance Painter alternative for Blender, Ucupaint!

Just a random tut on Ucupaint


Grab Ucupaint here
https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/ucupaint/

[jonaz.dk]

Discord will likely go public.. the usual prelude to things getting worse.