Red Nexus Games is a Canadian game studio that develops and publishes indie games that we'd love to play.
Red Nexus Games was originally started in the summer of 2015 by
Dylan Gedig
to release his local-multiplayer game The Shipwreck League. Starting a business while finishing a computer science degree proved to leave little time
to actually work on the game, so Dylan teamed up with
May Gardens to instead bring May's in-progress game,
Friday Night Bullet Arena, to a commercial release.
Red Nexus released Friday Night Bullet Arena
on
Steam,
itch.io,
and
Humble on September 30th, 2016, and released the game on
Xbox One on January 18th, 2017.
Friday Night Bullet Arena was a finalist for a Canadian Video Game Award and a SXSW Community Choice Award but unfortunately wasn't enough of a commercial
success to continue working on indie games full time.
The Red Nexus Games team went their separate ways and continued to individually work on various prototypes on the side of full-time jobs
until Peglin's unexpected Early Access success
on Steam in April 2022 gave the studio another lease on life. Peglin sold over 400K copies in its first year in
Early Access and has been the recipient of numerous awards even before reaching a 1.0 release.