@joostvandongen
Game creator. Founder & Creative Director of Galaxy Grove (Station to Station). Former co-founder of Ronimo (Awesomenauts, Swords & Soldiers, De Blob, Blightbound). Solo creator: Robo Maestro, Cello Fortress, Proun. Composer and cellist of The Ageless Gate
New job openings at Galaxy Grove! Join the company behind Town to City (98% positive on Steam!) and Station to Station. We're looking for a Community Manager and a Junior/Medior C++ Gameplay Programmer, to join us in our office in Utrecht (Netherlands). More info: www.galaxy-grove.com
New job opening at Galaxy Grove, the studio behind Town to City (98% positive on Steam) and Station to Station! We're looking for a junior/medior technical game designer to join us in making awesome management games! More info at the link: www.galaxy-grove.com/junior-medio...
New internship opening at Galaxy Grove in Utrecht, Netherlands! Join the Town to City team as a Technical Game Design intern (Unreal), helping us make our hit city builder even better! More info on our website: www.galaxy-grove.com
Yesterday, our very own Irina ( @codecks.bsky.social ) interviewed @joostvandongen.bsky.social about how Galaxy Grove organizes their development to ship on time and on budget. Check it out if you want to see real examples from successful studios making great games.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Huu...
Yes! This so much! This also goes for planning a game: know how to handle change and setbacks and don't worry about knowing all the answers beforehand.
New internship openings at Galaxy Grove (Netherlands)! Join the team that made the hit game Town to City (97% positive on Steam!) in making awesome management games! We're looking for interns in the fields of 3D animation, technical game design and 3D environment art. More info: www.galaxy-grove.com
The studio behind the Overwhelmingly Positive game Town to City is hiring! 98% positive reviews! We are Galaxy Grove, we also made Station to Station, we're located in the Netherlands and we're hiring! We're looking for a Medior/Senior C++ Programmer. More info on our website: www.galaxy-grove.com
New job openings at Galaxy Grove in Utrecht, Netherlands! Join the team behind Town to City and Station to Station in creating awesome management games!
- Junior/Medior Technical Game Designer
- Senior Technical Game Designer
- Senior C++ Programmer
More info on our website: www.galaxy-grove.com
It looks so goooooooooddddddd!!!!!!!!!! I love it! (And it was also super fun to play the early prototype a while ago!)
I love how smooth and fun traversal is in The Knightling! Finally an open world game where simply going from A to B is fun! You should make an open world Sonic game next! :D
OMG, the Town to City demo is Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam! 500+ reviews, 97% positive: a huge milestone for all of us! It's an honour to work with such a talented team on our cozy city builder! I'm so happy that players truly get Town to City's novel take on city building!
We added a subtle caustic effect to the aquatic woods in the Cornered Bosk in The Knightling!✨💧🛡️ #indiedev #screenshotsaturday
We still have some spots left for the Unreal Meetup this Tuesday in Utrecht! Come chat with other Unreal Engine users and hear three awesome short presentations! More info and sign-up here:
communities.unrealengine.com/events/detai...
SENIOR PRODUCER JOB OPENING!
New job opening at Galaxy Grove: we're looking for a Senior Producer. Join the team behind Town to City, Station to Station and more in making awesome games at our studio in Utrecht, the Netherlands! More info on our website:
www.galaxy-grove.com
New internship openings at Galaxy Grove! We're looking for a Technical Game Design intern and a 3D Environment Art intern. Join us in making awesome management games! More info and how to apply on our website:
www.galaxy-grove.com
Tuesday we're organising another Unreal Meetup in Utrecht! We have 4 great speakers lined up who will be talking about a variety of Unreal topics, including Procedural Content, Town to City and animation in Realm of Fame. More info and RSVP here:
communities.unrealengine.com/events/detai...
Wednesday I'm doing a talk in Utrecht about planning and milestones. I'll be sharing the milestone schedule for Station to Station, how it helped us achieve a quality game within budget and how we involved the publisher. It's right after the DGA Network Lunch.
www.eventbrite.nl/e/dgn-insigh...
OUT NOW (3x)
🎥 - Rift Riff's new trailer!
youtu.be/M79VZIUvhHA
🕹️ - Rift Riff's new demo!
store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...
👀 - Rift Riff's influencer version! (⅔ of the final game)
Get access through: creators@futurefriendsgames.com
Jump a rift, pick your towers, and fight off monsters!
We've announced our new game Town to City! It's a relaxing city management game, combining economy and management with a lot of options to make it pretty. We started working on this shortly after releasing Station to Station and it's great to finally reveal it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG-P...
Thanks for being willing to share numbers, very useful business information!
Blackwater Valley
Here's a link to the Steam store: store.steampowered.com/app/2272400/...
Our relaxing train construction game Station to Station is now on sale on Steam! 60% off, now is an excellent time to try our beautiful chill railroad builder!
A big step forward for Galaxy Grove: we started prototyping another new game. We are now officially a multi-team studio working on multiple new management games! I wrote a short blogpost about the goals I had when starting Galaxy Grove and how it is going: joostdevblog.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-bi...
Your computer is more modern than I imagined!
@jeroendstout.bsky.social Thomas posts stuff you might like. 🥳
If they don't, you can organise it yourself!
🥳 I'm not being sarcastic here. I wanted to visit the Unreal meetups in NL but the organiser had stopped. Now I can visit them again because we organise them. It's not much work to organise something low key to start with. 🙂
Our game Station to Station is on sale on Steam for two more days! Go forth and build some beautiful rail networks!
Here's a link to Station to Station in the Steam store, currently 50% discounted!
store.steampowered.com/app/2272400/...
Station to Station is currently 50% off on Steam! Time to give our beautiful, relaxing, minimalist railroad builder a try!
