"It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission," modeler Ryan Yan said, recounting his team's mantra going into GDC 2024. Yan and creative director Liam Cribbs were in San Francisco to pitch publishers on a school project they'd been plugging away at for nine months with a handful of friends at NYU.
Mycopunk, which released in early access this month under the Devolver Digital umbrella, is a fast-paced co-op FPS about underpaid robot exterminators cleansing a planet of its fungal infection. "A lot of us are big fans of co-op shooters, so we wanted to make our dream version of a Deep Rock, Helldivers, and Risk of Rain-type game," Cribbs said in a recent interview with PC Gamer.
