--- title: "We've got a great team, money in the bank, and... description: Studio head Jonny Hopper discusses how Guildford-based Glowmade emerged financially stable after Amazon shut down its multiplayer game King of Meat earlier... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/we-ve-got-a-great-team-money-in-the-bank-and-financial-independence-glowmade-comes-out-swinging-5ygjoksjl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: "We've got a great team, money in the bank, and financial independence": Glowmade comes out swinging after Amazon pulled the plug on King of Meat | daily.dev og:description: Studio head Jonny Hopper discusses how Guildford-based Glowmade emerged financially stable after Amazon shut down its multiplayer game King of Meat earlier... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/we-ve-got-a-great-team-money-in-the-bank-and-financial-independence-glowmade-comes-out-swinging-5ygjoksjl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5YGjOkSJL.png og:image:alt: "We've got a great team, money in the bank, and financial independence": Glowmade comes out swinging after Amazon pulled the plug on King of Meat og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # "We've got a great team, money in the bank, and financial independence": Glowmade comes out swinging after Amazon pulled the plug on King of Meat **[GamesIndustry.biz](https://daily.dev/sources/gamesindustry)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Studio head Jonny Hopper discusses how Guildford-based Glowmade emerged financially stable after Amazon shut down its multiplayer game King of Meat earlier this year. Because Glowmade owns its IP and managed Amazon's funding responsibly, the studio retained a financial cushion and pivoted quickly to a new single-player roguelike, Rogue Fortune, blending Hades-style combat with Tetris-like inventory management. Hopper details the studio's shift toward smaller, constrained projects, its in-house tech stack, and its goal of shipping roughly one game per year while working on two projects simultaneously. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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