Indie dev teams unite and form Nova Assembly, a company where indie companies share their expertise

With the state of the modern gaming space, it’s become a very tough time in the market. Indie games appear to be the ones winning the most, with their refined budgets, scope, and otherwise rather profitable and standout hits in recent years. But what happens when indie devs start supporting each other more clearly? That’s where the new company called Nova Assembly comes in, which is co-owned by dev teams from Unfrozen, Sad Cat Studios, VEA Games, Game Garden, and Weappy.

The focus of the new company is to unite the teams, helping each other with areas of expertise and assistance when needed. The company remains firmly locked into their contracts with other publishers, and keeping their agreements in check. But the idea is that if one company needs some assistance or ideas in one area, then any other company can help each other out if they have the expertise or knowledge. That way, they can share expertise, ideas, and insights to help each other get to where they need to be.

“The formation of a single holding structure bringing together five commercially successful and highly promising game studios will not only enable creators of ambitious gaming projects to share invaluable expertise accumulated over years of experience, but will also allow for more efficient and strategic use of shared resources,” said Denis Fedorov, founder of Unfrozen, who will serve as CEO of Nova Assembly. “And all that without compromising creative independence, which ultimately remains the key driver of competitiveness in today’s challenging market.”

The other focus of the company is to help make games for humans, without stats and algorithms in mind. The developers of these games are making interesting and unique games, with Unfrozen working on Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era‘s reboot, Sad Cat Studios working on Replaced due to launch this month, with Heroes’ Early Access at the end of the month.

While the teams are all working on projects with their respective partners, the open letter from the company forming talks about future goals.

“We intend to build our own publishing arm. We value all the partners we currently work with, but looking forward, we want to be the ones deciding how we market and release our games. We want to establish a direct line of communication with our audience and with the various gaming platforms.”

The company’s goals are to show the industry that collaboration and uniqueness can have a positive impact on the gaming space, especially in times of layoffs, game projects ceasing seemingly at random, and company closures. It will certainly be interesting to see how it fares over the next few years.

If you’re interested, you can check out the Nova Assembly open letter on the firm’s site.