[h1]Hey all!![/h1] I'm really excited to announce that Zeepkist: Crash 2D has finally launched! [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38891205/79edacca04ec838dd367d5878d027bd0d2a871dd.png[/img] Zeepkist: Crash 2D is a web game that's available on Poki.com! [h1][url=https://poki.com/en/g/zeepkist-crash-2d]Play Zeepkist: Crash 2D!![/url][/h1] The mechanics are similar to "dismount" type games: You crash your zeepkist and try to rack up as many points as possible, which you can use to buy new zeepkists, hats, levels, and obstacles! It's entirely free, and is monetized by letting players watch ads! [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38891205/af6cd4ec66264c4b084f3df63740c1f517e174bf.png[/img] [h1]What? Why? What about regular Zeepkist? :O[/h1] You probably have a bunch of questions! I'll try to answer a bunch of them, and if you have more, feel free to leave a comment! [b]Q: What is this?[/b] [i]A: A new game by me![/i] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38891205/c1c910eb0ebcf08d444c56d0d451a3ad2686eac8.png[/img] [b]Q: Why did you make another game?[/b] [i]A: Poki reached out to me about a year and a half ago to see if I was interested in publishing to web platforms. I didn't have anything to put on Poki at the time (Zeepkist itself is far too big for that of course). Later, however, I was playing around with 2D physics and made this little game, and I decided to get in touch with Poki to see if they were interested in this little thing I was making. And they were! My biggest motivation for putting time and effort into this is because I'm curious if small games-on-the-side like this can make money, which I need to live. And I'm especially curious if this can give me an additional income stream that might be a bit more steady than Steam. It's also smart not to put all of your eggs into one basket. Another, smaller, motivation is that I'm curious to see if this will raise Zeepkist "brand awareness". Maybe people will play Zeepkist 2D on Poki, google Zeepkist or come across it on Youtube, and decide to give Zeepkist a try![/i] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/38891205/9b607f043926e0c1ca22a7849af0e2fa073fb638.png[/img] [b]Q: Did this take time away from developing Zeepkist?[/b] [i]A: Yes! Absolutely, solo-developing two games at the same time is not easy. But I hope it will pay off in the end and all be worth it :)[/i] [b]Q: What's next?[/b] [i]A: Back to work on Zeepkist v16! Development on Zeepkist continued throughout development of Zeepkist 2D, as you might have noticed from the devlogs and patches! I'm curious to see how well Zeepkist 2D does. If it makes sense for me to make more web games I'll absolutely think about doing that. At the end of the day I still need to pay rent! :D[/i] I hope that answers all of your questions! Go play Zeepkist 2D, tell your friends, and Happy Zeepkisting!!! - Yannic [h1][url=https://poki.com/en/g/zeepkist-crash-2d]Play Zeepkist: Crash 2D!![/url][/h1]