We’re Melbot Studios, the team behind My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure and Melbits World. Family-friendly stuff, right? Well… our next game is called GodsTV, a top-down roguelike hack'n'shoot where wannabe influencers risk their lives in violent TV shows to become mega stars. Think Hades meets Rick and Morty, and yes, one of our playable characters is a sentient slice of pizza.
We’ve been pitching GodsTV to publishers for years. We signed with Starbreeze, but the deal collapsed after Payday 3 flopped, they had new “financial priorities” like not shutting down. Then we spent months refining our pitch, only to get discarded by another publisher’s CEO (*cough* embracer *cough*) who decided they “will not fund new IPs.” Shocker, I know.
Would’ve been nice to know up front. 🙃
By the third round, we were honestly burnt out. We got super close with another publisher, but at the last step they ended up laying off 60 people and tolds “we love it… we know you’re in a hurry but… wait a few months?”.
When that deal didn’t happen, we sat down as a team and said: F*** it. We’re doing this ourselves.
We’re going rogue. Full indie mode, self publishing and going all out with our last bullet. We’re launching a crowdfunding campaign to bring GodsTV to life. Considere following our Kickstarter page and spreading the word!