Spilled! got funded on Kickstarter in 12 hours: A relaxing clean-up video game, made from a boat
Clean up ocean waste in this relaxing & satisfying cozy game! Recycle, earn coins, upgrade your boat, repeat!
- The €10,000 Kickstarter goal has been met in 12 hours! The campaign is now at 135% funded!
Hey! I am Lente :)
I am a 23-year-old solo indie game developer from The Netherlands. I grew up on a ship here.
I've been making games for a long time but decided to take it serious at the end of 2022.
I managed to fulfil a longtime dream of mine and buy my own small boat to live on, which lowered my cost of living, and allowed me to focus more on making games!
While renovating the boat with my mom, I started working on 'Spilled!', a relaxing eco-conscious game in which you clean up oil spills with a boat.
With this game, I hope to bring awareness to the pollution problem, and inspire other developers to make similar games!
Over the last year, I’ve been sharing the progress of the game on Twitter. People really seem to like the game, and we’ve since grown a community of over 17,000 people on Twitter and a whopping 14,000 wishlists on Steam!
Now, with me having a really solid vision of what I want Spilled! to be, and the ever-increasing attention the game is getting; I felt like a Kickstarter is a logical next step.
The Kickstarter so far.
The €10,000 Kickstarter goal has been met in 12 hours! The campaign is now at 135% funded!
All my expectations have been blown away!
It’s not over yet, I just announced the first Stretch Goal; which is adding a Level Selector to the game!
This goal is set at €15,000 and the campaign is already at €13,500!
I have more exciting stretch goals planned, and it would be a dream come true if I can reach them all!
To give a hint at the unrevealed stretch goals; I will be adding more context to the world; who made this mess of oil spills?
Maybe at the end of the game you’ll be able to stop them!
I want to make this game the best it can be, giving it the attention I feel it deserves.
This means hiring people to help me with development and marketing, and through your help with the Kickstarter, I can make this dream a reality!
Presskit: impress.games/press-kit/lente/spilled
Youtube Demo Trailer: youtu.be/oughGXx8A0w
Steam Page: store.steampowered.com/app/2240080/Spilled
Kickstarter Page: kickstarter.com/projects/lentegamedev/spilled
Contact: hello@lente.me
About Spilled!
Clean up ocean waste in Spilled!, a relaxing & satisfying cozy game!
Recycle, earn coins, upgrade your boat, repeat!
Explore and clean up new areas with more waste and new challenges!
Key Features
- Short but satisfying - Move through 8 areas, each bigger in size and with more waste. No rush, take as long as you want. Spilled! is a short yet cozy game that you can finish in 1 hour, but you can use the level selector to go back to any area if you just want to relax!
- Recycle & earn coins - Clean up a whole area to move on to the next! The water gets clearer the more you recycle, revealing underwater life that is different for each area!
- Upgrade your boat - Prepare for the next area: tackle bigger oil spills with a bigger collector, hold more oil with an upgraded tank and cover larger distances with upgraded speed!
- Find & rescue animals - Each area has 2 different animals to find and rescue, for a total of 16! See which ones you've already saved in the options menu. Or which ones you've missed!
- Face new challenges - Each area has a new challenge to overcome! Push plastic to the recycling centre, wash oil off of the land, help retrieve lost items to other boats, put out wildfires, go magnet fishing and more currently in development!
About Lente
Lente is a solo gamedev from the Netherlands who lives and develops her games on a boat. She grew up on a ship and that has always stayed with her. She and her mother renovated the boat, making it one of the most original game studio locations! She's currently working on Spilled!, her first commercial game.
