YouTuber Dunkey’s game publishing company announces its first title
The first game to be published by YouTube content creator Dunkey has been announced.
Dunkey, whose real name is Jason Gastrow, announced in September that he was launching Bigmode, a publishing company aimed at bringing promising indie titles to market.
Now it’s been revealed that the publisher’s first game will be Animal Well, a Metroidvania in development for Steam and PS5.
Animal Well was originally announced back in February 2022 on the official PlayStation Blog as one of seven indie titles coming to PlayStation consoles.
“Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets,” reads the game’s blurb on its Steam page.
“Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter creatures both beautiful and unsettling, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.”
Speaking in an announcement video in September in which he revealed that he was launching Bigmode, Gastrow said he was “sick of watching from the sidelines” and believed he could use his reach and experience critiquing games to help launch new indie titles.
Gastrow, who founded Bigmode with his wife Leah, has over seven million subscribers to his YouTube channel Videogamedunkey and more than 1.3 million Twitter followers.
“I’ve been on YouTube for 11 years now, and one of the core themes of my channel has always been to slam dunk soulless cash grabs into the garbage can and lift up and praise the truly inspired works of art in this medium,” he said.
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He added: “A lot of games out there understand how to emulate the look of your favourite games but don’t deliver where it actually counts.
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