Internship opening at Galaxy Grove! We're looking for a 3D animator to help us bring our characters to life! Join our team in making awesome games with lots of charm! More info here: www.galaxy-grove.com/3d-animation...
Joost van Dongen
@joostvandongen.bsky.social
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
Announcing: Hidden Folks 2 - New themes and areas. - Improved graphical quality. - Second (not text!) clue. - Lots of new mouth sounds. - Various quality-of-life improvements. - Made in #godot. Get an email when it releases: hiddenfolks.com Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4480060
We've just announced our new rail tycoon - Steam to Electric!🚉 🛤️ Build a complex rail empire 🚂 Expand from the era of steam into the near modern future 🚄 Unlock crazy-but-real historical train inventions Wishlist Steam to Electric: bit.ly/4cJUb5C 🚂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcVp...
Steam to Electric - Official Announcement Trailer
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New internship openings at Galaxy Grove! We're the creators of Town to City and Station to Station! Join our team in Utrecht to work on awesome new management games! We've got openings in 3D Art, 3D Animation, C++ Programming (Unreal) and Technical Design. More info at the link: www.galaxy-grove.com
New job opening at Galaxy Grove! We're looking for an Office Manager. We're looking for a fun, hospitable and reliable person to join us and make sure our office remains an enjoyable place to work at! More info and how to apply here: www.galaxy-grove.com/office-manag...
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...
Reach your Milestones and Ship Games on Time with Galaxy Grove
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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
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...
March Unreal Engine Get Together at Galaxy Grove | Communities
In-person Event - Unreal Meetup at the Galaxy Grove office in Utrecht, Netherlands on Tuesday March 11th at 18:30.
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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...
DGN Insights - Planning and Milestones: the Galaxy Grove way
Learn how Galaxy Grove manages to build and release games on time and on budget from the studio's founder, Joost van Dongen
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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!
Rift Riff - New Demo Trailer
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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...
Town to City: Official Announcement Trailer
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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...
A big step forward
This December marks a big step for both Galaxy Grove and me personally; a step that I have been working towards for a long time. When I lef...
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Our game Station to Station is on sale on Steam for two more days! Go forth and build some beautiful rail networks!
Station to Station is currently 50% off on Steam! Time to give our beautiful, relaxing, minimalist railroad builder a try!
I lost sight of them in my adult years, taking an interest in manga, video games and other passions instead. But recently, I rediscovered them and decided to pitch a very special project to their publisher Standaard Uitgeverij: a Suske en Wiske MANGA.
Wow. just saw this on reddit. This should definitely be blowing up! .,. the art and feel of this is simply stunning..
DuneCrawl gameplay trailer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eXE... DM me if you wanna join playtests
Seeing Ayreon live next year! I love how his music tells crazy over-the-top stories with campy lyrics in a way that's somehow amazing. "Isolate the graviton Verify the Higgs-Boson Photons, hadrons Gluons, Fermions Demonstrate the Tachyon Find the missing baryons" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qewg...
Ayreon - (Phase IV - Unification) The Breakthrough
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My wife bought me a set of antique train toys to decorate the Galaxy Grove Office. So cool! The train can even still drive when you wind it up! If anyone knows anything about these toys, like how old they are, I'd love to learn more!