{"id":913296,"date":"2026-06-16T18:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/industry-veteran-and-youtube-musician-launch-new-indie-studio-stupendium-softworks\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:14:31","slug":"industry-veteran-and-youtube-musician-launch-new-indie-studio-stupendium-softworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/industry-veteran-and-youtube-musician-launch-new-indie-studio-stupendium-softworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry veteran and YouTube musician launch new indie studio, Stupendium Softworks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK-based developer aims to create games with sustainable development without using generative AI<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Industry veteran Alex Oxspring and YouTube musician The Stupendium have established the independent studio Stupendium Softworks.<\/p>\n

The UK-based studio is developing its first game, a first-person horror survival title, with principal photography and production scheduled for this summer.<\/p>\n

Stupendium Softworks is committed to sustainable development and does not use generative AI in its games.<\/p>\n

“Looking around the industry, it’s incredibly frustrating to see so much waste: poor management, high staff turnover, and low investment in craft,” said Oxspring. “We want to see more emphasis put on sustainability and creativity.”<\/p>\n

Oxspring brings over a decade of experience, having worked as a game designer at nDreams, Dambuster Studios, Sumo Digital, and Firesprite, and as managing director at Hitpoint Games.<\/p>\n

The Stupendium is a nerdcore musician known for producing songs about video games such as Alan Wake 2, Frostpunk 2, and Genshin Impact.<\/p>\n

Oxspring and The Stupendium first collaborated on the dating sim OnlyCans: Thirst Date in 2021, and reunited this year for Polyarmory: High Calibre Love.<\/p>\n

The Polyarmory team is now developing Stupendium Softworks’ debut title.<\/p>\n

“Off-colour romance laced with biting political commentary is only one flavour we offer,” said Oxspring.<\/p>\n

“We want to make delightful, surprising games that are joyful, queer, and celebratory; that use all of our talents to give homage to our favourite game series and film influences.”<\/p>\n

Stupendium added: “Having made songs and videos about games for so long, I really wanted the chance to create some games of my own. Plus, I had to find something else to justify these huge pieces of filmmaking equipment I keep buying.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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UK-based developer aims to create games with sustainable development without using generative AI Image credit: Stupendium Softworks Industry veteran Alex Oxspring and YouTube musician The Stupendium have established the independent studio Stupendium Softworks. The UK-based studio is developing its first game, a first-person horror survival title, with principal photography and production scheduled for this summer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[648,4744,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-industry","category-veteran","category-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}