G'day mate! If you're looking to contact Caspar, the solo game dev running Slow Rush Studios, you're in the right place.
How to reach me
- Send all your love mail to
caspar@this domain. I respond to every email! - Jump onto the
Slow Rush Discord server and mention @caspar
What on earth is this
In January 2024 I quit my stable job as a programmer to work on game development full time, armed with nothing but a pretty shoddy and not-even-particularly-compelling prototype.
(You can read more about the game here.)
To convince my family I wasn't (only) sleeping in all day, I convinced them I founded Slow Rush Studios: my very own game development company - and told them to subscribe to my newsletter for clever updates.
Since then a whole bunch of people have agreed to admit me to their inboxen, much to my surprise.
Anyways, for the first 9 months I was self funded, but in the second half of 2024 I managed to secure some funding in the form of government grants.
It wasn't a huge amount, but at least now I've beat the average revenue for a Steam-released game, so I feel pretty good about that.
Why Slow Rush
- I didn't like just calling it Caspar's Games. Slow Rush lets me distance myself from my poor decisions in the future ;)
- For dev, you gotta move with urgency, while bearing in mind that you'll be doing it for a looong time.
- But also, dev takes way longer than you expect, so hell yes it is actually slow!
- I wanted something that was fairly easy to say, spell, and google - and not already used in a game or software development context.
- The inherent contradiction makes you stop & think :)
Also, a "rush" is what you feel when you find something cool & unexpected - that seems like a good thing to aspire to.