Kinda Brave partners with 3 indie studios in sustainable publishing effort
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Kinda Brave is a new Swedish sustainable game publisher and it has signed up to work with three new indie game studios.
Uppsala, Sweden-based Kinda Brave will work with the studios Ember Trail, Dinomite Games, and Tic Tek Toe. The studios are all working on two titles, and Dinomite Games plans to launch Hack n’ Slash Go Fight Fantastic in 2023, said Kinda Brave CEO Björn Rudolfsson, in an interview with GamesBeat.
The Dinomite Games title is a hand-drawn co-op game, and the other studios will announce their new titles in the coming months. The content is indie-related, but the titles don’t necessarily have an environmental theme. Rather, the publisher is focusing on sustainability in terms of how the games are made.
“We have no standing orders on creativity,” Rudolfsson said. “We’re not looking to make a special kind of game. We’re still making the exact same games that you would expect from an indie developer. We’re trying to elevate those games in terms of the way they are made.”
The company has raised about $6 million and it is using that to fund growth and development.
Rudolfsson said the studios share the publisher’s core aims and ideals, prioritizing “People, Players, and Planet.” Rudolfsson started the company in December 2020, and Karim Walldén joined as head of marketing in February 2021. The company takes a sustainable approach to the environment, and it also believes in treating the developers well as well, so they can sustain the willpower to finish their games.
“We are delighted to be working with the talented teams at Ember Trail, Dinomite Games, and Tic Tek Toe. We want all of our studios to feel part of
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