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Yesterday SpellRogue developed by the three guys strong Guidelight Games and published by Ghost Ship Publishing, launched from Early Access into release 1.0! Grats on the release to the team! Catch you a bit later today.

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Mind Diver by Indoor Sunglasses (DK) now got an official reveal trailer and published by Japanese Playsim.

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Successor from Playwood Project has launched their Kickstarter a few days ago!

It 'should' be a project that in theory would appeal to the boardgamey crowd on Kickstarter.. without being an actual physical boardgame. But the campaign is super sadly not off the the greatest start.
Rule of thumb is that reaching min. 20% funded on the first day should highted the chances of meeting the goal significantly.
I spotted the followers count was not very high before the start of the campaign. Which is not a good sign, these things needs to be seeded with followers WELL IN ADVANCE to get the ball rolling on launch day.

It's not over yet! But some major PR push needs to happen!

Campaign goal is actually very modest and should in theory be obtainable, Though it is very low amount of money to make a huge change in production.

The gameplay video is very nice looking! Though it is not very good a introducing the player into the fundamental player fantasy and how and why we are playing the game. Also the video doesn't give that vibe of having the devs present and talk about what the game is all about to get that human connection.

Crossing fingers it will go really well! I wish the project ALL THE BEST! But gut feeling is rather cautions.

[jonaz.dk]

So some actual news from stealth startup Wombo Games!

Raiders of Blackveil has been announced!

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So AI 3D model generation is getting a leap up with Hunyuan 2.5! Looking impressive!



Give it a shot here: (Remember to translate the site)
https://3d.hunyuan.tencent.com/apply?si ... f61fa2fa98

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As the Successor Kickstarter campaign was cancelled another one goes live.
Successor will likely return to Kickstarter! - Ending message:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/73 ... ts/4371519



This time another big IP campaign from (DK) Mood Publishing. Goat Simulator: The Card Game.
No doubt about the campaign will land quickly and nicely.

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An intro to WebGPU!




More on:
https://webgpufundamentals.org/

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Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #467

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A record amount of applicants has applied for the new (still the basically same (for now)) NIMBI - Spilordningen.

A total of 106 game projects have applied for funding from the Spilordningen scheme, twice as many as in previous rounds at the Danish Film Institute.

Read full post here in Danish:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nimbi-in ... 42657-zzFY

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An earlier 2025 release I missed!

Space Survivors (Early Access) solodeved by'TheMaJestic14' who popped up on the spiludvikling.dk Discord. And I just had to investigate.

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Oh pretty damn nice tunes from the Epic Store!

0% comission for games selling er under 1M USD. Which would be most games.
Steam is 30% regardless of earnings.

Sure there are less sale on the platform. But nothing to loose.

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This is cool! Bridge Command in London.

https://bridgecommand.space/

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A look at Doom - The Dark Ages made on ID-Tech 8

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Void Crew from Hutlithut is coming to consoles announcement.

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A look at some of the latest Unreal 5.6 features.
Protip is to wait a few versions 5.6.x until upgrading existing projects.

And remember kids.. with great power comes great responsibility.

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The rumors were true!
Campfire Cabal is back from their state of limbo.



The link:
https://campfirecabal.com/still-alive/

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Six One Indie Showcase coming up. Our old office neighbors at Flat Poines has a reveal trailer for their new project.

Update: Stratch The Cat has been revealed

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A look at the new AI implementation in Unity.

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Even more restructuring at Embracer

https://embracer.com/releases/embracer- ... rtainment/

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'Stratch The Cat' from Flat Ponies has just been announced!





Adding: Meet the team featurette

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Today is Early Access release day for King of Retail 2 developed by DK Freaking Games.







As well as GLUM developed by DK Cindercat as their first release!

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So the DK blockchain focused Bright Star Studios has been shut down.

Best of luck to the people affected!



From
https://embersword.com/

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Angry Video Game Nerd (James Rolfe) retuns to his original form. Atleast for this episode.

Never played the NES version of Dragon's Lair, it seems excruciating!
But did play the C64 version on tape of Singes Castle.. it was hard!

But enjoy a good old return to form. And why we loved AVGN to begin with.

And a true lessen in horrible game design!

[jonaz.dk]

And very soom grats to Playwood Project for releasing Successor into Early Access today! (in 6 hours from time of writing)

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Monolith Dominion from Chuckle Warriors has gotten a demo on Steam.