Ludeon Studios

What Ludeon Studios is

Ludeon Studios describes itself on its own site as an independent game developer, adding that it works on deep PC games and story generators. The same page names Tynan Sylvester as the studio's founder and links to his blog and his book, Designing Games. Public communication from the studio runs through the blog at ludeon.com, which sits alongside an FAQ, a work-with-us page, support and privacy pages, and links to the studio's forums.

The blog is where the studio announces game updates, merchandise collections and bundle promotions, and its archive lists entries reaching back to 2013. The studio also maintains rimworldgame.com as the dedicated site for its game, where purchases, expansions and the name-in-game option are handled. Both domains are controlled by the studio, so they serve as its primary sources for what the team ships and when.

Beyond the blog, the studio's site links players to a RimWorld FAQ, a work-with-us page, support and privacy policies, and discussion through its own forums and social accounts. The studio's about block repeats that Ludeon Studios is an independent game developer, points to the founder's blog and book, and links to outside resources for its game such as its IndieDB page and community wiki, which is how the studio directs players looking for technical and community information.

RimWorld

RimWorld is the game listed for Ludeon Studios in our database, and the studio both develops and publishes it. The Steam store entry names Ludeon Studios as developer and publisher and lists a release date of October 17, 2018. The store listing classifies the game under the indie, simulation and strategy genres and describes it as a sci-fi colony sim in which stories are generated by simulating psychology, ecology, combat, climate, biomes and diplomacy.

The official game site describes RimWorld as a sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller and states that it was inspired by Dwarf Fortress, Firefly and Dune. The same page presents the game as a story generator designed to co-author difficult and triumphant stories about imprisoned pirates, desperate colonists, starvation and survival by controlling the random events the world produces for each colony.

How the studio sells its work

Ludeon Studios sells directly to players as well as through Steam. The game site offers a DRM-free download with Steam access, lists expansion content alongside the base game, and offers a name-in-game pack that places a buyer's name into the game as a raider, colonist, traveller or trader, with the full game included in that purchase. Player-created content tied to the pack is subject to creative rewards guidelines published by the studio on a public document linked from the site.

Bundle promotions with other games and the patch notes for named updates such as update 1.6.4850 are announced on the studio's blog, and the game site links to the studio's FAQ, support and privacy pages. No headcount, revenue or unit-sales figures for the studio or for RimWorld appear on the official pages reviewed for this profile, so none are stated here. The documented facts are the studio's independent status, its founder, its game's Steam release date and the way it publishes its own titles.

Games

• RimWorld

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