Loddlenaut News

The ocean planet of GUP-14 is not a happy place. Its seabed has been gunked up with piles of trash, globs of purple gunge and nasty clouds of micro-plastics, all because an industrial megacorp couldn't be bothered to clean up after themselves after bleeding it for resources. That megacorp's since upped sticks to, sadly, continue their terrible ways somewhere else in the solar system, but calling out these bad practices (beyond them being obviously bad and not good for the planet) is not really Loddlenaut's concern here.

Rather, your job is to simply clean up this mess with your array of high-tech gadgetry, healing its polluted environments so: a) it's not a grim, purple hellscape anymore; b) native, axolotl-like loddle creatures can move back in and prosper. It's simple, satisfying work that's designed to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside without having to think too hard. But its straightforward, frictionless tale may leave some wishing it had just a little more bite, and less of a sense that you're laying the ground for some other faceless corpo power to go and splurge all over it again.

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Ahead of Loddlenaut’s release on 16 November, we are very pleased to announce that for every game sale of Loddlenaut, the cosy creature-raising and pollution cleaning adventure, the game's publisher Secret Mode, will make a donation to Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), their official charity partner of the year. This pledge builds upon the Loddlenaut team’s charity work already undertaken in 2023, including Urban Beach Cleans, Climate Giant Project donations, and World Oceans Day Steam Sale participation.

Secret Mode will donate 0.05GBP per sale of Loddlenaut to WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation. WDC is a UK registered charity no. 1014705. This pledge covers all net game sales over the next three years.



To celebrate this week’s launch, Secret Mode has also partnered with local UK artist Michelle Costello, aka Smartie Lids on the Beach, for a special, eco-conscious art project. Michelle has been combing Cornish beaches for litter over the past ten years and has painstakingly recreated Loddlenaut’s colourful key art exclusively using reclaimed ocean plastics and materials.



The artwork, pictured above with artist Michelle Costello, will be viewable to the public from February 2024, when it will be housed as a temporary art installation at WDC’s refurbished Scottish Dolphin Centre.

The full list of collected plastics used for the artwork:

• 1x Yellow bucket base
  
• 1x Turquoise bucket
  
• 1x Blue bucket
  
• 1x Orange bucket
  
• 1x Green bucket
  
• 1x Green football
  
• 1x Yellow football
  
• 2x Blue fisherman’s gloves
  
• 1x Grey canvas
  
• 1x Blue canvas
  
• 1x Green fishing crate
  
• 1x Orange spray bottle
  
• 1x Water bottle
  
• 1x Purple hair gel container
  
• 1x Purple biscuit pack wrapper
  
• 1x Chocolate wrapper
  
• 1x Purple fabric
  
• 1x Pink wellington boot insole
  
• 1x Purple foam lily pad
  
• 1x Green body board
  
• Multiple lolly sticks
  
• 1x White container
  
• 1x Black beach shoe insole lining
  
• 1x Black flower pot
  
• 1x Blue & green plastic sheet
  
• A miscellaneous collection of other smaller plastics of unknown origin
  

For more news about reclaimed ocean plastics artwork, please follow Smartie Lids on the Beach on Instagram and Facebook.

It's the final countdown - Loddlenaut will be surfacing on Steam on November 16!

It's World Cleanup Day and together with Developer Moon Lagoon we're excited to reveal a November 16, 2023 launch date for Loddlenaut, the cozy pollution-cleaning adventure awash with creature-raising and survival systems.

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Loddlenaut started out as a NYU Game Center thesis project in 2019 and has been in full development since May 2020.

We're recruiting Loddlenauts to save the ocean planet GUP-14 by playing as an interstellar custodian sent to a polluted ocean planet. While cleaning up the mess, players will need to recycle trash to build and upgrade powerful purification tools.

Loddle creatures respond to your ocean restoration efforts with affection and soon you’ll be surrounded with new best friends to name, feed, pet, communicate with, and even evolve.

Play the demo, wishlist on Steam and you may just find a little Loddle friend along the way...

Today is World Cleanup Day!

Earlier this year, WDC, SpecialEffect, and Loddlenaut publisher Secret Mode channeled their inner ‘Loddlenaut’ with over 40 games devs to clean up Brighton beach during the UK’s biggest conference and expo for game developers, Develop:Brighton.

During the event, the teams collected nearly 8kg consisting of over 1500 items of litter. This included a shocking 217 bottle tops, 158 food packages, and 203 loose pieces of plastic. They also collected a staggering 347 cigarette butts, with smoking items in general (including vapes, filters and cigarette packs), constituting a massive 25% of all items found that morning.

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If you are inspired by this event and would like to arrange your own Urban Beach Clean for your business or event visit https://uk.whales.org/urban-beach-clean and don’t forget to wishlist Loddlenaut on Steam! (We might even have some Loddlenaut news later today..!)

You can Wishlist Loddlenaut and download the demo here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1644940/Loddlenaut/

To find out more about the work our amazing partners do, visit their websites:

Whale & Dolphin Conservation: https://whales.org/
SpecialEffect:https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/

The cosy creature-raising and pollution cleaning game Loddlenaut has hatched a brand-new trailer focused on the life cycle of the eponymous loddle creatures. 🌊

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The trailer featured in the Re-MIX online showcase today shows players the basics of looking after loddles, cleaning up the world of GUP-14, blasting away pollution and collecting trash which can be turned into new gunk-fighting technology. 🐠

The demo featuring the Flotsam Flats area of the game – and several loddles waiting to be befriended – is available to play on Steam right now.