Be honest, could you handle making a game with your sibling? From ideation to creation, playtesting to going live on Kickstarter, brothers Jye and Baden Stone have been hard at work developing , a joyfully chaotic TCG that pits you and your friends against an invading armada of aliens. Together, they form Comet Squid, a developer duo who never anticipated they would venture into game development, let alone that they would somehow wind up creating a game so well received that it was a winner at the 2023 PAX Australia Indie Showcase, and winner of GamesHub’s own People’s Choice Award. Only seven years ago, it was no more than a fleeting thought.
“Back in as early as 2017, I came across a forum post from someone who had just released their first game – it was a thank you to the board game community for being so helpful, so welcoming, and this person was just so grateful for everybody’s help,” said Jye. “And I was like, wow, what an amazing industry, it would be fun to try and get into that one day. I just didn’t really think about it any more than that.
” It wasn’t until much later, while playing for the first time, that the cogs started turning and the first whispers of began to take shape. “It was clever, fun and simple, and I just thought it could be a fun sort of project to try and develop a card game,” said Jye. “I reached out to Baden – asked him ‘What do you reckon, do you want to try and design a game together? Could be a bit of fun’.
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