Hey everyone, we're not dead! We've been hard at work on our next game for the studio (hint hint), although I can understand why you would think otherwise since we've been deathly silent since the 1-year anniversary update for Relentless Expanse. So, although we're not quite ready to announce anything, I wanted to break that silence!
This will be the first monthly studio update for Cowmera Games, where I'll focus on telling you all more about the studio, what we've been doing, what we plan to do, and plenty more fun stuff! So, while we're not quite ready to tease our next game (more on that next month?), I figured now would be the best time to introduce myself and the brief history of our studio!
Before Cowmera Games, and while we were still developing Relentless Expanse, it was just me (MrCowdisease), our awesome artist (Timberlate), and our musical genius (Andrew Sutherland). Me and Andrew met while working on a different project, which never saw the light of day, and Timber joined us after I found him on the mystical and terrifying forums of Reddit.
After that, we honestly kinda speedran making Relentless Expanse considering our experience. It really only took about 4 months to go from idea to release, which was impressive, but of course came with its own issues. As many of you know, the game has had more than just a couple of issues in many aspects, and the initial state of it upon release was frankly pretty barebones even compared to just a few months afterwards. Still, despite all of that, the game was able to reach thousands of players, got 90% positive reviews, and still has hundreds of monthly users!
So, since the game had some pretty decent success, especially considering we were all complete newbies and put very little thought into advertisement, we decided to try forming a studio! I took the helm since I was basically already leading the operation, and since I was able/willing to shoulder the financial risks. We deliberated for a while, and ultimately decided on the name "Cowmera" since we're nerds and there were 3 of us, and I was the "head" of the group! Thus, Cowmera Games itself was officially founded on June 15th, 2025, much to the dismay of many.
Around that time, I also secretly started working on our Studio's next game while also maintaining Relentless Expanse. However, disaster struck shortly after... I GOT A JOB!!!!
...Okay, it wasn't that bad, but the change in my free time and lifestyle was definitely heavily felt and not properly addressed for quite a while. I had graduated college that spring, and getting my degree frankly didn't take up nearly as much of my time, hence why I was able to make Relentless Expanse. Updates slowed, and I *technically* said that I would tease the new game by fall of 2025... which I think I slightly missed. So, the studio was making progress on both games, but much slower than before, and certainly not at a sustainable pace.
Suddenly, January of this year, I had an amazing, brilliant, genius realization... I have adult money now. Everyone knows that adult money is the ultimate subsidy for bad decisions! So, while having a job drained me of most of my free time, it also helped me expand the studio and fund our next game, which until then had been working off of revshare and wasn't making significant progress.
Finally, that brings us to today. My funds are, of course, quite limited, so that's still the main limiting factor for the game's progress, but the scope and amount of work being done on it has been able to increase drastically thanks to the funding! With all of that being said, Cowmera Games will be celebrating its first birthday on June 15th, so be sure to keep an eye out for a Relentless Expanse update, a fun event, and more! Most of that will be hosted in the community discord server, so feel free to hang out with us there: https://discord.gg/ZjaBnbDVcU
Thanks for reading and for supporting us, see you next month!