One line (July 13 - Wednesday)

A new evening, a new selection of fresh news: The Hotline Miami series received another comic book series, Gamevil released another reading of Heroes Charge, and Square Enix helped indie developers collect $1 million.

1. The Italian comic publishing house Dayjob Studio, with the “blessing” of developers from Devolver Digital, has launched a series of comics Hotline Miami: Wildlife. The series is not canon. The first issue in digital is already on sale. A total of eight rooms are planned. Previously, the Italians have already released a canonical comic book series in the game universe. It was called the same as the sequel – Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.

2. GAMEVIL has released Kingdom of War. The game is another clone of Heroes Charge. The project differs favorably from numerous analogues in graphics that will appeal to those who miss Lineage 2.

3. Projects supported by the Square Enix Collective initiative have collected more than $1 million in total through crowdfunding.

Recall that Collective is an initiative launched by Square Enix to help indie developers promote their projects. The mechanism of interaction with it is as follows: the developer submits the idea to the community. If the users of the platform approve the project, then it receives the publishing support of Square Enix. The game is funded from funds raised by the developer independently on Kickstarter and/or Indiegogo.

The initiative is still deaf with hits. To date, only one Goetia project has been released, whose downloads since spring have not even reached 10 thousand on Steam. And where is the help in promotion?