Killmonday Games 10 Year Anniversary
Hello sweeties! Welcome, curious soul—It’s time to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Killmonday Games! We’re opening our doors for a week-long festivity! It’s all happening across our social media realms, where cute collides with creepy, and wackiness is the norm! The Killmond
Hello sweeties! Welcome, curious soul—It’s time to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Killmonday Games!
We’re opening our doors for a week-long festivity! It’s all happening across our social media realms, where cute collides with creepy, and wackiness is the norm!
The Killmonday Shop will be open with exclusive goodies—get your claws on them before they’re gone! Hop on the giveaway for a chance to win a promo code worth 500 SEK (Swedish crowns) to be used in the shop!
Feeling possessed by creativity? You can enter our Wacky Birthday Challenge and show us what you love about the Killmonday universe—think glue, confetti, and chaos! More information is coming soon. There are fun prizes to win!
We’ll conjure the spirit of Killmonday LIVE! Come hang out with us and soak up the delicious news of our upcoming game. And of course there’s cake! Let’s blow the candles together, all served with a side of strange.
Follow us on the social medias to get more information about the activities as they unravel.
Come and play with us. Let’s have a quirky, and totally Killmonday-style celebration!!
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GIVEAWAY
[p align="start"]22nd August – 25th AugustCHALLENGE
[p align="start"]23rd August – 29th AugustKILLMONDAY SHOP OPEN
[p align="start"]25th August – 1st SeptemberLIVESTREAM SHOW ON TIKTOK
[p align="start"]Opening ceremony[p align="start"]25th August 21:00 CEST[p align="start"]New Game Announcement[p align="start"]27th August 21:00 CESTClosing ceremony
[p align="start"]29th August 21:00 CEST
The second edition plushie will have a small marking to differentiate it from the first edition. The marking will state the plushie as a second-edition production. The design of the plushie is the same as the first edition.
How the campaign works:
Details from the project "Benjamin Game"
To make possible the goal of expanding the company to later create more complex games, Isak and I got to take the role of “boss” and start guiding others to understand our vision. But things were not as expected. There were a lot of Human Resources matters to attend. With more people we needed better communication skills. We needed to understand how to delegate and how to navigate the everyday with feedback, guidance and creativity.
I saw the need to study, to gain insights on how things could be done. I read several books about company building, management systems and how to be a better leader. I attended a few courses in leadership both digitally and on sight. All of this, while also keeping an eye on the team as individuals, guiding the game projects we were creating and managing the Killmonday Shop.
Details from the project "Fran Bow 2"
My body was becoming a sad, angry, resentful husk, as I got less and less help from my partner, as the system to drive the company became more complex.
Isak was withdrawing from the responsibility as the stress was eating him alive. And indeed, I have no idea how I kept carrying this goal forward for so long myself. I was tired and saw no meaning in a lot of things I was doing, but it was for the “greater good”. The bigger game! While I was getting sicker and sicker. And this is due to my incapability to ask for help, open up and show myself vulnerable. I wasn’t able to ask for the right support and I was being a people pleaser with my employees. *Side note: This made them respect me less and less.
We did achieve a lot of things during this period, though, but my energy wasn’t keeping up and it wasn’t sustainable. And many of the projects weren’t completed either.
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[/table]Details from Fran Bow Chapter 6
I was focused on achieving, to feel more secure about myself, my worth. To feel more loved or accepted. And it shames me to realize this now. It is a valuable experience for future endeavors. I’m already worthy and my skills mirror the experiences at this moment in time. I can’t be more nor less. And my creativity moves with me.
It took a few trials of canceled games, before we could finally realize; we can’t keep doing this. It’s making us miserable. It’s eating the creative soul of our beings.
We haven’t been able to release or stick to one project for 4 years now.
We have been sharing with our fans news about the Benjamin game, about a Fran Bow DLC and Fran Bow 2. We did work on all of these projects, believing this was what we could do together, but we always came to a point where things didn’t go where they needed to.
The latest project we got to cancel was coming along good. Until we realized if we do this we’re gonna go broke.
This year ends with us needing to let people go. To take a step back and heal the physical and emotional wounds of burnup and resentment. This year ends the story of expansion, as a traditional company, with employees.
We do need the help of others, but we will take the approach that has worked for us before; freelancers. Yeah!
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[/table]Collaboration with freelancers for Fran Bow Chapter 6 minigames
We have decided with Isak to let go of the idea of traditional company building. And refocus on the meaningful stories that we envision and we are eager to redefine and re-discover our creative nature.
We are getting there, little by little, and as time is a layered reality, we know we will make it. But we don’t know how or when yet. I know there is a little lady and a tall skeleton in a tophat taking good care of us.
This year we were able to release Fran Bow on consoles and that was a great achievement. We also got the opportunity to work with Makeship and release really cute plushies of our beloved characters.
This year was about realizing who one really is and accepting it and loving it, is the biggest achievement yet, personally at least.
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Now we are 3 beings working at Killmonday, Isak, Linda and I… We have become the triangle at last.
Thank you for being part of our journey and taking your time to read. Please reach out if you have any questions!
Happy times, many hugs and love,
yours truly, Nati
Jica walking to the convenience store. And Valokas being confused.
It’s going to be an emotional journey and we can’t wait to show you! More news about the new game will appear for sure next year. As for now, we want to concentrate 100% on finishing up the console version of Fran Bow.
The Benjamin game took a lot of time and effort from us and we learned a lot. We were able to create beautiful levels, art, and narrative, but we gotta put that game on ice until we can release the Fran Bow port to consoles and the new Fran Bow game. The Keeper of the Key.
We are very excited to jump into the Benjamin game again though, as it has been a very passionate project for us to create.
Work Name: The “Benjamin Game” WIP.
But as you see, we added too much to our plan between 2020 and 2022, and at the end, we have nothing to share with you. Lesson learnt! From now on, we will only have 1 project going at a time. We realize we can maximize our strength that way.
It’s easier now to see; we wonder sometimes, how could we be so blinded?
But that’s how it works sometimes. You are going forward and never stop, until you realize you were walking on the wrong side of the road.
Now Killmonday is in a better position, we know each other a bit better. We know our strengths and our weaknesses and that makes it possible, to be able to drag us out of the dark, into the light again.
Yours truly,
Killmonday Games.
Did you know our new game, Little Misfortune, is coming out September 18? That's in 2 days!
If you're a Fran Bow owner, you will receive a Loyalty Discount coupon which gives you -10% off!
This is because thanks to you, we were able to keep creating games, and for that we are eternally grateful <3
The discount will be available from Sep 18, 2019 8:00am PT to Oct 2, 2019 10:00am PT.
Peace and love out happy!
/Killmonday Games
PS. In case you missed our new game, here's the link! > https://store.steampowered.com/app/714120/Little_Misfortune/
You can now finally play a little part of our new game Little Misfortune!
It will be an introduction to the main characters, gameplay and the darkly mysterious world of Misfortune, that is connected to the Fran Bow universe.
Today we, the Killmonday Games, released the first official trailer for our upcoming game called