At Summer season Sport Fest 2025, Ambrosia Sky caught the hearts and minds of attendees for its distinctive premise, uncommon gameplay, and compelling sci-fi imaginative and prescient. It’s a cosmic science fiction recreation the place gamers uncover the mysteries of a misplaced colony by cleansing up an alien mildew and burying the useless.
It’s from a group of business veterans with expertise at firms like Bethesda, Ubisoft, and past—nevertheless it’s not the type of recreation any of these firms would have made.
That’s not a knock on any of these studios—it’s troublesome to discover new concepts in well-entrenched workflows. Making gorgeous, inventive video games typically requires ranging from zero and avoiding the temptation to make a recreation described as “X, however Y.”
This week on the Sport Developer Podcast, Gentle Rains studio head Joel Burgess and narrative director Kaitlin Tremblay dropped by to debate the origins of Ambrosia Sky, and why the group set an bold objective—making a recreation that may actually push the boundaries of science fiction.
Burgess and Tremblay had been additionally candid concerning the sophisticated means of deciding what recreation to make. When your studio is filled with business veterans, there’s an expectation you’re putting out to make your personal model of the video games you already labored on—however that’s not what Gentle Rains wished to make.
About The Sport Developer Podcast
The Sport Developer podcast is a bi-weekly podcast chronicling the triumphs, catastrophes, and every thing in-between of recreation growth, sharing classes and techniques fellow builders can use to hone their craft. The Sport Developer Podcast is hosted by Bryant Francis, edited by Pierre Landriau, and options music by Mike Meehan.
Try the Ambrosia Sky demo on Steam: https://retailer.steampowered.com/app/3580160/Ambrosia_Sky/
Comply with Joel Burgess and Kait Tremblay on Bluesky at @joelburgess.bsky.social and @kaittremblay.bsky.social
