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

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!

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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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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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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.

Suske en Wiske manga by Marissa Delbressine and Roderick Leeuwenhart

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!

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