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tl;dr: About a year ago, we started working on our second game. It's called SWAPMEAT, and it's an outlandish, co-op, roguelite third-person shooter.

Hey there! Pat and I here checking in from One More Game's annual holiday party to reflect on the year that was 2022, and to offer a little preview of what we've got planned for 2023.

We've shared quite a bit about our alpha-driven development approach at One More Game. Today I thought I'd shed some light on how we square our iterative approach with the fact that we do, in fact, want to launch a successful game one day.

Today's a big day for us at One More Game! We've got two big pieces of news to share: We raised $22 million in Series A funding, and we're announcing our debut game, Spellcraft.

In PvP games, bot AI is often one of the last things you'll develop. We needed it to be one of the first.

For an artist, few tasks are as compelling — or as daunting — as building a new world from scratch.

Statements of a company's values can run the gamut from boring, to pompous, to cringeworthy, to disingenuous — so, please, forgive us for writing a blog post about ours. They serve a purpose!

Last year, Pat shared the way that we make games in Alpha-Driven Development, which describes One More Game's approach of rapid iteration and gameplay validation through early feedback from players.

In 2020, One More Game decided to embrace fully remote work — forever. I wanted to share a little bit about how we came to that decision, and how we've adapted the way we work.

Whether they're written down or part of a company's oral traditions, every software engineering team has guidelines its developers use to direct their efforts. These are the ones we use at One More Game.

Anyone who's worked in game development for a while knows that launching games is challenging. Creating online games is even more difficult, as it requires building Internet services like matchmaking, account systems, chat services and many more.

So you came back to our site to discover what we're up to, and hoping to learn what game we're making... right? The first rule of game development is: you do not talk about the game.

After a year of working in the shadows on a new game, at my new startup, I'm excited to share news about what's going on here.