Digital Confectioners

Factsheet

Developer:
Digital Confectioners
Based in New Zealand

Project start date:
2023

Website:
packmatesgame.com

Press / Business contact:
packmatespress@digitalconfectioners.com

Social:
Steam
Discord

Releases:
TBA

Description

Gear up your animal hero in this 1–3 player co-op survivor roguelite forged on tactical inventory mastery. Arrange loot for devastating combos, obliterate enemies, and battle to dominate the darkness infiltrating your forest!

History

In late 2023 - early 2024 I started prototyping a few different ideas for smaller scope games that could be built by a very small team. Packmates began as one of those prototypes with the idea of creating a co-operative roguelite game with inventory management. The core gameplay was similar but the title and theme of the game had not been worked out yet.

In March of 2024 we saw the co-operative roguelite as the most promising of the prototypes and I started production on it straight away.

I wanted the co-op elements of Packmates to feel co-operative, I like the idea of players working together to achieve their goals rather than just existing in the same map. As such a lot of time in the development process was spent working out how that would function. Being able to drop items for your party, the camp, brewmaster, item shops, and the spawning objectives came from that vision.

It was roughly July of 2024 when the title and theme of the game was worked out. I wanted a name that signified co-operative gameplay and Packmates ended up being perfect as it also refers to the backpacks that players keep all their items in, the theme for the game arose from the new name.

Projects

Team & Repeating Collaborators

Digital Confectioners

Bryce Haywood
Design & development

James Tan
Project Management

Sam Evans
Project Support / Localization / Web Dev

Will Scott
Localization / Development Assistance

Hari Kilgour
Mapping

Carl de Visser
Testing

Joseph O'Donnell
QA

Carl Aiken
Testing

Jack Jiang
Testing

Also

Admurin
Pixel art for enemies

Desiree Moffatt
Concept artwork for player characters

Walter Samperi
Pixel art for player characters

Raphael Hatencia
Pixel art particles

Emmy Hucker
Marketing, Trailer

Adriel Fair / Giants Loom / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Announcement Trailer Music

Short, High Freq Throws, Dry / Plants Magic Spell, Fast, Zap, Plant Whip / Deep, Low, Cinematic / Designed Impacts, Metallic Hits, Magic / Spell, Heal Sound / Quiver, Tight, Many, Bamboo, Draw / all courtesy of Epidemic Sound
Announcement Trailer SFX

Contact

Media Inquiries
packmatespress@digitalconfectioners.com

Customer Support
packmates@digitalconfectioners.com

Web
packmatesgame.com