Applications are now closed—thank you so much to everyone who applied and who boosted this call to their communities! We'll be in touch with all applicants with our decision soon 🫡✨

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we take game dev extremely seriously 🎩🕺🏻

Applications close tomorrow night, Wednesday, February 4th! www.workwithindies.com/careers/ko-o...

Oh hey, check this out:

I turned three cans of Monster and a sleepless weekend into a tiny videogame for the Global Game Jam. It's about escaping a room full of procedurally generated masked weirdos, something I'm sure we all can relate too. Play it now on your Windows personal computer: khorrorshow.itch.io/i-dont-know-...

We’re hiring a QA Analyst! $90,069 CAD/year, remote 6-month contract, 4-day work weeks with flexible hours! 🫶 Apply now: www.workwithindies.com/careers/ko-o... ✨

We’re thrilled to share that resources now stack in your backpack inventory! 🎉 Currently, we’re hard at work on implementing our next quality of life update: donation boxes to clear out your backpack more easily and provide resources for your neighbors :)

Low energy but trying to muster some goblin-related doodles #goblinweek2026

Coyle #YoungSuns

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POV: you mentioned klos during standup

some production musings on making Young Suns more sustainably - over the last few months we've made a few big changes to how we organize the work for the game. YS is built by a relatively small team for what the game is so we've had to constantly adapt and learn how to best make it

Frierenification

good news sundog! you can now fill your ship full of literal garbage! yippee

can you guess what one of our favorite animations is? 😌🍑

Calling all Archivists - we now have an official wiki for Young Suns youngsuns.wiki.gg Join us on our discord if you'd like to volunteer and maintain the wiki (link in bio)! Shoutout to @wiki.gg for being excellent

here are the cliffsnotes 🧑‍🔬

have you done the assigned reading? 🤨 your answers will be graded btw

A message for everyone from the dinos of color. #GVH #GoodbyeVolcanoHigh

SPACE

We’ve got a small update for you, Sundogs! This was a tricky one to track down and involved multiple cascading bugs that were masking each other! Got a bug report or feedback for us? Join our Discord to share! 🚀🫶 discord.com/invite/ko-op

Number One Space Dad Benjamin Lafayette Sisko? In KO_OP's cozy narrative space life sim Young Suns? Truly, we are blessed. 🌐🚀🌀

this came to me last night in a vision

we've been called communist stardew valley in space and you're not wrong but we're also these

this is what my coworkers have to deal with. day in, day out

big things happening/coming to the KO_OP socials

More people should check out Young Suns by @ko-op.com! If you haven't already, perhaps this short feature in @videogame.town will persuade you? Read my latest: videogame.town/2026/01/08/y...

evangelion-ass screenshot today

i made this back when i was in menus hell and my real actual takes are that all ko_op games are parkour EXCEPT for young suns which still is menus

the more you know 🌈

It’s true!! We wouldn’t be here without grants (hi @gdocexpo.com and @bvigaming.bsky.social 💕💕), crowdfunding (thank you to the 3000 people who believed in us and to @ko-op.com for help with our video!), porting funds (the great people at DAP (id@xbox), the money all of us contributed when needed…

we are tapping the sign once again

We didn't think we'd make this post so soon after launch but we have now hit 100k unique players in Young Suns!! We're so grateful to all you sundogs playing the game and giving us feedback. We'll see you all in 2026 with lots of updates ❤️ Now's your time to shine!

We didn't think we'd make this post so soon after launch but we have now hit 100k unique players in Young Suns!! We're so grateful to all you sundogs playing the game and giving us feedback. We'll see you all in 2026 with lots of updates ❤️ Now's your time to shine!

CHOOSE. YOUR. FIGHTER.

Sundogs!! A small patch before we go on holidays for new players to have a bit of guidance of what to do after the tutorial. We'll be back in the new year with bug fixes and updates. Now's your time to shine!

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sign up for our final newsletter of the year if you want a look at a bunch of behind the scenes of Young Sun's development and some GVH trivia. It'll be going out on Thursday! buttondown.com/ko_op

We'll do you one better and ship an entire planetoid as magenta 😏

you don't need AI, you can just ship placeholder no one will mind

we are tapping the sign once again

😭❤️🙏🏼

happy anniversary to this visual novel about sexy vampires on reality tv, which we released a year ago today. it's been a pleasure reading all the nice reviews over the last year, especially the ones in Chinese. there was a really good one in Ukrainian too I think. but all the languages are good.

watching the art in this game develop over the last year has been incredible, deeply talented group of folks fr

how we started vs. the glow up 😌🫶

Our first patch is LIVE! Check out the full patch notes here: www.notion.so/koop/Young-S... Happy travels, sundogs!! ✨🚀

the best part of game dev is finding the funniest audio to pair with bugs

orchids to dusk is turning 10 today ⚘ polclarissou.itch.io/orchids-to-d...

Some fang doodles because why not #gvh