Loddlenaut team pledges charity donation for every sale
Reclaimed ocean plastic artwork commissioned to celebrate Loddlenaut’s continuing ocean conservation work
Austin, Texas – 14 November 2023: Ahead of Loddlenaut’s release on 16 November, developer Moon Lagoon and publisher Secret Mode are pleased to confirm that every game sale of the cosy creature-raising and pollution cleaning adventure will result in a donation to Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Secret Mode’s 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
Loddlenaut will release on PC and Mac via Steam on 16 November 2023. A demo featuring the Flotsam Flats area of the game – and several loddles waiting to be befriended – is available on Steam.
For more news about reclaimed ocean plastics artwork, please follow Smartie Lids on the Beach on Instagram and Facebook.
About Loddlenaut
Loddlenaut is a creature-raising survival game that takes place on an ocean planet. Play as an interstellar custodian who is sent to clean up an abandoned planet polluted by a mega-corporation. Befriend local axolotl-like creatures and explore sunken corporate ruins as you revive the planet’s lush ecosystems.
Loddlenaut launches on Steam for PC and Mac on November 16 2023.
Loddlenaut’s playable demo is available now on Steam.
About Secret Mode
Greetings from The Bunker! Secret Mode is the publishing wing of the award-winning Sumo Group Ltd. Our goal is to publish internally developed projects from any of our 18 game development studios across the UK, US, Europe, and India, as well as third party independent game developers. We believe that games are for everyone, and that creativity has no limits. We believe quality and fun are everything.
About Moon Lagoon
Moon Lagoon is a two-person indie game studio based in Austin, TX.
Loddlenaut began as a NYU Game Center thesis project by Ricardo Escobar and Jin-Young Sohn in August 2019. After graduating in May 2020 and with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, they formed Moon Lagoon, LLC to transform their student project into a full commercial release.
About Whale and Dolphin Conservation
WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation is the leading global charity dedicated to the protection of whales and dolphins. Whales and dolphins are our allies in the fight against the climate and biodiversity crises and WDC works across the globe to protect these intelligent and sentient creatures from the many threats they face like hunting and whaling, pollution, accidental entanglement and captivity. WDC’s mission is a world where every whale and dolphin is safe and free.
