Townseek
Townseek is an upcoming exploration-trading game with absolutely stunning hand-drawn art by indie-dev Whales And Games.
It was originally created as an entry for the Global Game Jam 2021 and, while the fully featured game is still unreleased, the jam version of Townseek is available to play today over on itch.io.
The wonderful team at Whales And Games has also, quite generously if you ask us, released the Townseek source code (the game jam version) on their GitHub, so any budding Unity developers can take a look at how they've done it.
Townseek Art Examples
Who made Townseek?
Indie-dev studio Whales And Games, founded in March 2017, is making Townseek.
The Whales And Games team consists of:
- Jorge M. Carvalho - Co-Founder of Whales And Games and Lead Developer on Townseek, from Portugal
- José "Moski" Sánchez - Co-Founder of Whales And Games and Lead Artist on Townseek, from Mexico
- John Elliott (aka João Araújo) - Audio Composer and Sound Designer on Townseek, from Portugal
What is Townseek's website?
You can find Townseek's official page on the Whales And Games website:
https://whalesandgames.com/games/townseek/
When is Townseek being released?
The original release date announced for the game was Early 2024, however, in late August the team posted to their Steam community news page that the release date has been reverted to Coming soon and they will be revisiting it at a later stage.
Townseek on Steam
Remember to head over to Townseek's Steam page to show them some love:
History of Townseek
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Launch date revised from "Early 2024" to "Coming soon" on .
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Moski posted to /r/IndieGaming on Reddit by with new game demo on .
...On top of the trailer and demo, we've also announced our publisher, and that we're bringing the game to consoles, with the exact ones still to be announced...
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Townseek wins The Very Big Indie Pitch at PocketGamer Connects London 2022 on .
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The Jam Version was added to GitHub on .
Written in C# and uses Unity Version 2020.2.2f1.
Assets and surce code licenced under Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0.
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First sneak peek of Jam Version progress posted to X (then Twitter) by Jorge on .
No sound, but here's a peak at what our @WhalesAndGames team (@MoskiDraws @JohnElliottComp) has been able to pull-so far for @globalgamejam! Presenting Townseek!
Pulling off a trading exploration in a short-jam was certainly a challenge, but I'm proud of our #gamedev efforts! 😊
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