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Meet the indie studios funding other indie studios
Several successful indie game developers, including Innersloth, Landfall, and Kinetic Games, have launched initiatives like Outersloth, Evil Landfall, and a new publishing business to financially support other independent studios. These funds aim to provide crucial investment, ranging from $50,000 to $2 million, to help indie developers bring their projects to fruition, especially during a period of low overall investment in the video game industry. The transparency of these funding models, including contract terms and recoup percentages, has been positively received by the development community.
The devs behind Peak and Content Warning made a publisher to support their games and other indie developers: 'We…
Developer Landfall has launched a new publishing arm called Evil Landfall to support its own games and other indie developers. Initially established three years ago, Evil Landfall will offer project-based investments, money, and advice to indie studios, though it may also publish games in the future. This move follows a trend of successful indie studios creating their own publishing labels to navigate the current market.
Peak co-dev turned indie investor says "too many developers develop their game secretly for several years," and it's putting its friendslop fortune into helping devs find a better way
Evil Landfall CEO Kirsten-Lee Naidoo advocates for shorter game development cycles, criticizing the trend of developers working in secret for years. The company, an investment arm of Peak co-dev Landfall, aims to fund and advise studios making smaller, focused games with clear fun factors, citing their own success with the 'friendslop' genre and the risks associated with long development times.
Peak co-developer Landfall might finance your next indie game
Landfall, the developer behind games like Content Warning and Peak, has launched a new publishing offshoot called Evil Landfall to finance external indie projects. Led by CEO Kirsten-Lee Naidoo, the label aims to provide project-based investment and advice, potentially investing up to $1 million in a few games per year. Evil Landfall has already quietly invested in titles such as REPO, How To Fish, and Voidigo.
Evil Landfall is the latest publishing label from an indie developer
Landfall has launched a new publishing label called Evil Landfall, headed by former head of publishing Kirsten-Lee Naidoo. This new entity will provide funding and publishing services for external indie developers, in addition to Landfall's own titles. Evil Landfall aims to support games with shorter development cycles and a focus on cooperative, physics-based gameplay, drawing inspiration from Landfall's successful titles like Peak and Content Warning.
