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Following The Blockbuster Success of the Animated Adaptation of Tracy Butler\u2019s Lackadaisy, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iron Circus\u2019 Multimedia Expansion Continues with A BackerKit Campaign for<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Games And Collaborations with Iron Circus Cartoonists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(June 24, 2024) Spike Trotman and her award-winning company Iron Circus Comics have emerged as a first-in-class graphic novel publisher, with numerous industry awards and nearly five million dollars raised over the course of 40 crowdfunding campaigns. Now Iron Circus is expanding again \u2014 with another high profile, multimedia campaign<\/a> and the launch of Iron Circus Games. In partnership with game creators Indiepocalypse<\/strong>, Iron Circus Games is pairing up Iron Circus Comics cartoonists with programmers and game creators to debut their very first collection of collaborative game projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indiepocalypse is a curated anthology of games dedicated to help carve out a stronger space for small press and alternative projects, especially shorter and more experimental work that may struggle to compete with the massive marketing machines more traditional, commercial games deploy. Founded by PIZZAPRANKS, AKA Andrew Baillie, Indiepocalypse has released over 50 bundles to date with games that are weird, artsy, and designed to be accessible to both creators and players. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSince 2020 I’ve been releasing a monthly alternative indie game anthology called Indiepocalypse,\u201d said Andrew Baillie. \u201cIndiepocalypse features games from 10 developers each month, 9 from open submissions and one that is newly commissioned. There is also a companion zine that is primarily designed for “demoing” the anthologies, featuring pages for each game, post-mortems, and a cover from an artist working outside of games. I started Indiepocalypse with the goal of supporting and highlighting developers making games in the independent, self-published, no-budget space and can\u2019t imagine a better partner for this project than Iron Circus.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaking video games is an ambition I’ve harbored for years, even though I was totally clueless as to how to go about it,\u201d said Iron Circus Publisher Spike Trotman. \u201cAnyone who followed me on Twitter or Bluesky can attest to my experiments with Twine, Godot, RPGMaker, my false starts on at least three different projects. I was really groping around in the dark, making slow progress, trying to figure everything out by myself and garnering the expected results for my efforts. I’m ETERNALLY grateful Andrew sent that first email, proposing this team-up! Not just for selfish reasons, access to Andrew’s know-how and Rolodex, but because I knew so many other cartoonists who harbored video game ambitions identical to mine. And, now they get to come true!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the 7th overall BackerKit campaign and 41st crowdfunding campaign for Iron Circus. Founded in 2007, Iron Circus Comics has grown into the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in the American Midwest\u2014a small-mid house pushing out about 10 or 15 books a year, including Eisner nominees and winners, Amazon bestsellers, and the famous Smut Peddler line of erotica. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The campaign will feature multiple tiers for backers. For $30, backers will get all the games from the Iron Circus Games x Indiepocalypse collaboration, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n