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KO_OP: 🪐 Young Suns Available Now!
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Worker-run game studio. Young Suns 🪐, Goodbye Volcano High 🦕, Ridiculous Fishing EX 🎣, Winding Worlds 🐛, GNOG 🤖

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we've been called communist stardew valley in space and you're not wrong but we're also these
Young Suns Assigned Reading List!!! All of this will be on the test. -To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers -On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden -Frontier by Guillaume Singling -Space Sweepers (2021) -Star Trek: Deep Space Nine -Cowboy Bebop -Citizen Sleeper by Jump Over the Age -The Boku no Natsuasumi Series -The Animal Crossing Series Young Suns Worldbuilding & Writing exercise tools -Syllabus by Lynda Barry -Exquisite Biome by Caro Assertion -Dialect by Hakan Seyalioglu and Kathryn Hymes Microscope by Ben Robbins
January 13, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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big things happening/coming to the KO_OP socials
a screenshot of slack with a private channel called "posters-madness" and the yes ha ha ha...yes sickos meme
January 8, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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the more you know 🌈
Edit of a Calvin and Hobbes comic of Calvin’s dad speaking to Calvin. Calvin’s dad: Playing a KO_OP game? I’ll show you something interesting. The two types of games are menus and parkour. All games fall into these two categories. GNOG? Menus. Dépanneur Nocturne? Parkour. Calvin: Yeah… Calvin’s dad: Goodbye Volcano High? Menus. Ridiculous Fishing: EX? Parkour. Despite jumping around a lot, Young Suns is menus. The next panel cuts to Calvin later in bed, looking haunted.
January 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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We didn't think we'd make this post so soon after launch but we have now hit 100k unique players in Young Suns!! We're so grateful to all you sundogs playing the game and giving us feedback. We'll see you all in 2026 with lots of updates ❤️

Now's your time to shine!
a banner reading "Thank you 100,000 unique players!" with the Young Suns logo and a cast of colourful characters surrounding the text
December 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Sickos meme. A man looking through a window saying "Yes... Ha Ha Ha YES!"
December 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Sickos meme. A man looking through a window saying "Yes... Ha Ha Ha YES!"
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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CHOOSE. YOUR. FIGHTER.
an image of characters from Young Suns. The characters are Klos, Morton, Selma, Simon, Syl, Chicken, Andrea, Willa, Bea, El Ojo, Gus, Irina, Gorbit, And more
December 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Sundogs!! A small patch before we go on holidays for new players to have a bit of guidance of what to do after the tutorial. We'll be back in the new year with bug fixes and updates. Now's your time to shine!
a notice image from KO_OP reading "Patch 0.4.3 is out now! Hello Sundogs! Just a small update this patch to help provide a bit of guidance to players after completing the tutorial. We’ll be on vacation and back at it with more updates in January. Now’s your time to shine!"
December 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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We'll do you one better and ship an entire planetoid as magenta 😏
a screenshot of young suns with a ship approaching a planetoid that's completely magenta due to missing textures
December 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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you don't need AI, you can just ship placeholder no one will mind
a screenshot of young suns with a character looking at debug text above a door that reads Exit/entrance
December 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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how we started vs. the glow up 😌🫶
Early render of the inside of the station Wednesday. There's a large tree in the center without any texture, and the station looks very plain. Much more developed render of Wednesday! There's texture and bright colors and sunlight filtering through the windows!
December 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Our first patch is LIVE! Check out the full patch notes here: www.notion.so/koop/Young-S...

Happy travels, sundogs!! ✨🚀
Text reads: Patch 0.4.2 is out now! We're happy to announce that Patch 0.4.2 of Young Suns is now live! This one addresses major issues with crashes on Xbox One. Thanks for your patience as we tracked this down, and let us know if you experience any issues!
December 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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the best part of game dev is finding the funniest audio to pair with bugs
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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and for your fine art needs 🧑‍🎨
The Young Suns sickos emoji in a golden frame.
December 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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incredible things are happening at ko_op
The famed "sickos" meme from The Onion as a Young Suns emoji.
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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[muffled screaming]
A screencap from the young suns trailer that shows a bit of the Unity editor window in the shot
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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LOOK AT OUR GAME CAN YOU BELIEVE WE'RE MAKING THIS
a screenshot of young suns. a cute astronaut is on a planetoid that has rocks and short shrubby vegetation
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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We were freaking out about the forehead bug before launch but Tom made a very good point. And we wouldn't have had this excellent bug report sketch without it 👄
"honestly it would be charming to launch with this because everything around it is so clean (the character/anims/music/dialog/environment) that it brings you back down to earth a little, like hey settle down this is early access. you'll be one of the few players to witness the days 1-2 forehead-mouth bug" bug report "Double mouths. this ones kinda funny lol, sorry i dont have a screenshot but with most NPCs i talked to, i noticed that whenever their mouth moved, a second mouth was appearing between the eyes/on their forehead, making the same mouth animations. please see the attached doodle with an approximation of what this looked like" and a funny drawing of a face with two mouths (one above the eyes)
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Watch our Young Suns teaser! Available now in Xbox Game Preview on Game Pass and coming soon to other platforms 🪐

www.youngsuns.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Happy Halloween!! 🎃🔪
A spooky Halloween pumpkin carved by a KO_OP dev of our studio mascot, Ini, a humanoid creature with two large eyes and holding a knife. Our studio mascot, Ini. Ini is a genderless dark blue humanoid figure with large eyes, two streaks under their eyes, and a flat mouth—chosen because the word “ini” looks like a face! Ini is holding a knife, because why not.
October 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Our mascot ini, a small cartoon character who’s always crying holding two money bags and money symbols in their eyes
October 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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We're coming up on our 2nd anniversary for Goodbye Volcano High, and to celebrate, we're holding an AMA in our KO_OP Discord on August 27th at 2:00 PM ET! discord.gg/32fjkkhV?eve...

See you there, dinos!!
Naomi, a lilac parasaurolophus, wearing a white short-sleeved dress shirt with a pink bow. She has a blonde bob haircut with pink horn-rimmed glasses. She's on stage in her school's auditorium. The curtains behind her are bright green. Text at the bottom reads: Join Us August 27th for Our Goodbye Volcano AMA! Our game's logo is in the bottom right corner.
August 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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We're hiring for TWO positions—Senior Unity Programmer and Senior Rendering Programmer! www.workwithindies.com/work-with/ko...

✨ You do NOT need to be Canadian to apply! 🙏

$85,700 CAD/year
Health benefits
4-day work weeks
25 annual days paid vacation
Text at the top reads: Senior Unity Programmer. The job description reads: Responsibilities Taking ownership of and developing core game systems Preferred: Overseeing the high-level rendering architecture of our projects Supporting junior- and mid-level engineers Requirements Experience shipping multiple commercial games Experience with Unity rendering, including SRP and URP. Good knowledge of URP internals preferred. Experience developing gameplay systems in Unity High level of fluency in C# Experience developing multiplayer games, especially in Unity and/or using Photon Fusion Due to our small team and a significant number of our employees being international, we require potential applicants to be able to speak English Preferred experience Rendering programming experience or familiarity a huge plus Experience developing multiplayer games, especially in Unity and/or using Photon Fusion HLSL fluency Shader and GPU pipeline optimization experience Experience working on live-service games Developing on Xbox consoles This is a permanent position. After completing a probation period you will be a full democratic member of the company, contributing equally to all strategy decisions and sharing in all profits. If you’d like to know more about co-ops, and KO_OP in particular, this profile goes into some detail about how we operate. $85,700 CAD/year + bonuses and democratic decision making Fully remote work (Hybrid available in Montreal and Vancouver if desired) Health benefits 4-day work-weeks with flexible hours 25 annual days paid vacation, unlimited sick and personal days Text at the top reads: Senior Rendering Programmer. Text inside a white square reads: Responsibilities Overseeing the high-level rendering architecture of our projects Overseeing other rendering programmers and technical artists Collaborating closely with artists to iterate on and achieve their rendering ambitions and visual targets Requirements Experience shipping commercial games Extensive experience with Unity rendering, including SRP and URP, with good knowledge of URP internals High level of fluency in C# and HLSL Shader and GPU pipeline optimization experience Experience with GPU debuggers, such as RenderDoc and Pix A proven track record of working closely with artists Due to our small team and a significant number of our employees being international, we require potential applicants to be able to speak English Preferred experience Experience developing multiplayer games, especially in Unity and/or using Photon Fusion Experience with Amplify Shader Editor, including template development Developing on Xbox consoles Compensation $85,700 CAD/year + bonuses and democratic decision making Fully remote work (Hybrid available in Montreal and Vancouver if desired) Health benefits 4-day work-weeks with flexible hours 25 annual days paid vacation, unlimited sick and personal days
July 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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going through some localization documents for GVH as we prepare for a localization meeting for our new secret project, and came across this gem. making games is the best job in the world lmao
Screenshot of a conversation between us at KO_OP and the localizers helping us translate GVH. The first section quotes an in-game social media post that reads: @meltyng she explode on my cambrian til i. The second section is a question from the localizer that reads: What does that mean? The third section is a reply from us that reads: She [blank] on my [blank] til i [blank] is a meme formula that uses words or phrases and breaks them up to make sexual innuendo. like "she ebbin on my nezer til i scrooge" referring to the dickens' character ebenezer scrooge.
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM