Demo Day and Discord

We’ve been participating in a startup accelerator program run by a16z Games called SPEEDRUN, and it culminated in a Demo Day event at SF Tech Week where all the participating companies pitched their businesses to investors and demoed their products.

Foge did a great job pitching 2weeks - you can watch his presentation here:

The whole program was extremely valuable for us - we’re experienced game developers, but we're first-time startup founders, and the crash course we received in building a business has been invaluable.

But, it has also been a ton of work and travel, and we’re both very excited to be turning more of our attention back to building games!

So let’s talk about the games!

Kaiju Defense Club

Last week we shipped some fun updates for Kaiju Defense Club, notably a new lobby and leaderboard system. This week, we’ve just shipped a custom version to Discord, which you can install in your own servers:

Install Kaiju Defense Club on Discord

The lobby and leaderboards are persistent to the server you install the app on. This means you can compete with your friends directly in Discord!

We’ve got Kaiju Defense Club installed in the 2weeks Fun Club server if you’d like to compete with us! (I’ll warn you, though - Foge puts up some monster scores!)

2weeks Twins

We’re still hard at work on improvements to the 2weeks Twins based on your feedback! Check out these concepts for a modular hair system!

These new assets are coming soon to the Twin Editor and will also make appearances in our next game, which is coming very soon. I’m getting very excited for it - it’s definitely the most ridiculous idea we’ve tried so far.

For now, just a hint in the form of emojis: 🧀🏃