This week, one year ago, JETT lifted off!
Since our 2021 campaign “The Far Shore” deployed last fall, we wound down JETT's primary production, scattering the all-star contributors and vendors known as JETT Squad 1.0 to the winds, to lend their talent to other projects. More on them below!
Then, some of us took a bit of a breather. It had been a long haul!
However, in early 2022, compelled by a new stirring in the hymnwave, production began on the new campaign, “Given Time,” and a coupla new folks climbed aboard to lend a hand.
Now here we are in fall 2022, one solar year since JETT's interstellar trip began -- just a few lunar cycles before the JETT tsaga concludes -- and let me tell you: this is a pretty spicy week JETT-wise.
Here’s a look at what’s been popping off around here!
There's now a JETT demo on Steam!
- Embark and traverse a sea of stars for absolutely free on your PC in JETT’s very warmly-received interstellar prologue.
- If you're reading this on Steam itself, chances are you're already aware that there's a playable demo available now. Still for us it's big news-- we’re extremely psyched to be bringing JETT to the vast international audience on Steam in early 2023, alongside Given Time hitting all platforms. It feels as if there are a good number of prospective jett-heads here, and we’re hoping this demo will be a nice little calling card for our project.
- Some of the JETT Squad -- past, present and future -- got together on an internet seance last night, one year since our previous eve-of-JETT seance. We synchronized our datacores, got caught up, communed with the hymnwave, and talked a bit about Given Time. More on squad, seance, and good feelings, below!
- To mark JETT's first birthday on Twitter at @jettxyz we just aired a lightly refreshed edition of our Launch Trailer. This clip features scntfc's warm, elegaic song ‘Jett to Cosmodrome’. Last year we watched this all together as a squad as we premiered it. The clip contains a lot of warm memories of our time together with the scouts.
squad talk!
It took a village to actually get the complex, sprawling project JETT from where it was in mid-2019 onto consoles and computers worldwide.
That village was a constellation of all-star collaborators, contributors and vendors scattered across Earth's troubled surface, and we refer to it as JETT Squad. They got their shoulders under JETT, helped build it out and sharpen it. Together, we got ‘er done.
In fall 2021, as production on “The Far Shore” campaign wound down, the beloved JETT Squad 1.0 — the 2019 to 2021 era — scattered to the wind, to lend their talents to other projects.
We’ve kept up with folks here and there, but it sure was nice to get people together and see some faces on last night's seance. Lots of talk about current projects, sci-fi tv, regional accents, mummy babies, banjo plucking, and more.
A warm evening with colleagues and friends, and a good refilling of the community cup!
squad snapshot - fall 2022
l-r: Priscilla Snow, Sam Bradley, Gordon McGladdery, Jim Guthrie
Some things JETT Squad 1.0 folks have been up to over the last year!
- IMMORTALITY by Sam Barlow and Half Mermaid (Priscilla Snow, audio director)
- ENTERGALACTIC by Kid Cudi and Netflix (Sam Bradley, pre-viz)
- Rogue Legacy 2 by Cellar Door Games (A Shell In The Pit, Gordon McGladdery, audio/music)
- Nobody Saves The World! by DrinkBox Games (Jim Guthrie, music)
Meanwhile, a few JETT Squad 1.0 folks are busy cooking up new videogames, like these!
- Oxenfree II: Lost Signals by Night School Studios / Netflix (scntfc, audio/music) - releasing 2023
- Skin Deep by Blendo Games (Priscilla Snow, music)
- TBD by Furniture & Mattress (Nick Suttner)
- TBD by The Glory Society (Priscilla Snow, music)
new squad folks for 2022
Richard Flanagan, Dan Berry
Two brand new scouts appearing around the hymnwave at last night’s seance were Richard Flanagan and Dan Berry, two essential additions to the 2022 JETT Squad who saw the new Given Time campaign to the finish line.
squad 1.3 roll-call
Speaking of Given Time, you might be wondering how it come about, and what the squad looked like, this time out.
In January 2022, a new stirring was detected within the hymnwave, and we were compelled to spin up JETT Squad 1.3, in order to deliver on a very specific vision, a vision that we'll be talking about this fall and winter.
This 2022 Squad had a few JETT vets forming the core, with some Squad 1.0 all-stars pitching in.
- old school
- Co-creators: c/Superbrothers + Patrick/Pine Scented
- Composer/collaborator: C Andrew Rohrmann/scntc
- squad star
- Dev powerhouse on design and QA: Zack Wheeler @tankooni
- all-star contributors, 1.0 alum returning:
- Priscilla Snow @ghoulnoise
- Sam Bradley @abysmalred
- Maize Longboat @maizelongboat
Zack Wheeler, Maize Longboat
new folks adding capacity to the mix in 2022:
- Richard Flanagan aka @phosfiend - direction, design, mograph, many other hats
- Dan Berry aka @thingsbydan - direction, narrative, AV producer, sound
For more about these JETT Squad folks, look out for a limited series of “squad profiles”, on the way this fall/winter season.
- These are some interesting people with interesting jobs, we hope you’ll enjoy getting to know them a little better!
- These profiles will be summarized in the Superbrothers A/V Enthusiasts newsletter, which you can subscribe to on jett.fyi, and appearing in a longer form here on JETT’s Steam news feed.
- These profiles will focus on a few of the people who were key in shaping aspects of this sometimes byzantine, absurdly ambitious and always spicy science fiction videogame project.
autumn in Quebec, Craig Adams (also in Quebec)
If you’re looking to get your ear even closer to the ground on Superbrothers comms this fall/winter, look us up at the locations below.
the Superbrothers A/V - Enthusiasts newsletter, which you can subscribe to via jett.fyi
JETT’s Steam Newsfeed - Wishlist JETT to subscribe
Instagram: @superbrothers @hymnwave
Twitter: @jettxyz @superbrothersHQ @hymnwave
