Here at Stalagmite Entertainment we look to the past, present, and future when creating new and engaging experiences for players. We believe in innovative refinement and attentive play-flow design when it comes to building an adventure. Bringing dreamed up worlds into reality is what we aspire to and we are dedicated to quality of enjoyment.
“In darkness, we are not blind, we are imagining.”
– Gitsuky, Stalagmite Entertainment
AT OUR CORE
When we say that we look to the past, present and future for inspiration, we’re talking about classic gaming and modern application. We believe at the core of any great gaming experience, is a strong beating heart. They say there’s no such thing as an original idea, and who would really want to reinvent the wheel right? Well, we all do and we definitely can, the question is how?
Taking in inspiration from every corner of the gaming industry, especially in history, we can spin, evolve and remaster things in new and exciting ways. It is at the core of our beliefs, that a well made game isn’t about being completely original, we’ve seen all this stuff before in so many forms! No, a well made game is intuitive, immersive, engaging, and should feel curiously striking to pick up and explore. Creative evolution of design consistency in world building, balanced explorative flow and story telling is paramount, and we truly believe that the best of games are the ones that completely captivate our curiosity above all else.
This is what we strive for when developing our games, because we want others to feel that same spark we do. There’s nothing quite like the dawn of a new adventure, that’s why nostalgia is so powerful.
Modern gaming, and we believe you’ll agree, has become somewhat plagued with marketing…
How can players be truly immersed in a game with ads popping up? or in-app purchases being pushed? Yes, there are some places where this can be acceptable but not many. Stalagmite Entertainment is not out here trying to make millions; we want to make memories. So our promise to you and to ourselves is as follows:
We are almost completely against all advertising, in-app purchases and/or in-game stores, anything pay-to-win, and even in some forms, pay-to-play.
If we create a game that’s free for you, there might be some in-game purchases but nothing overboard, and there definitely will not be any bombardment of advertising.
If we create a game for you, and sell it at industry standard pricing, you’ll have the full game. No extra purchases, no cash grabs, no bullsh*t. We want our players to love being immersed in our games; captivated without distraction.
We believe very strongly in doing what we can to look after this world we all share, after all, life is an experience that has no respawn! So we are very happy to say that more that 50% of the electricity used in making our games is generated by solar. We also try very hard where we can to look at recycled alternatives (although recycled isn’t always a good thing – something we also bare in mind), as well as environmentally friendly ways of designing, manufacturing and disposing of anything from our physical table top and TCG games.
Our fans, our players, we are community and your input is so important. There has been many upsets over the years from gaming communities feeling as though they’ve been taken for granted by game devs…hey, Stalagmite Entertainment feels that way too! Perhaps the rush of technology and expanding marketing schemes has brought some serious toxicity into the gaming world, but we firmly stand our ground here. The players are everything, without you the player, the games, the experiences, the stories, they fade away.
Founder Gitsuky here,
I didn’t pick the name Stalagmite Entertainment just because it sounded cool. This name was inspired by much of how others treated my beliefs, dreams and aspirations. See, a stalagmite is an upward-growing mound that is created from all the dirt and minerals dripping from the ceilings in caves. I chose the name Stalagmite because to me this is a representation of my time in the dark, and every nitpick, every comment, every opinion, piling up and up growing into a mountain.
Like the stalagmite, I am, we are, this is, built up from every spec of dirt that fell upon it.
This, is Stalagmite Entertainment.
The Stalagmite Team
Some of the most memorable games for me over the many years till now have been Zelda Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Pokemon Silver, Banjo Kazooie, Diablo I and II, LOTR The Two Towers, God of War, Dark Souls, World of Warcraft (Vanilla and BC of course), so I love a good RPG/adventure game, dark fantasy or high fantasy definitely particular favourites of mine.
