This month, get to know the developers, Galaxy Grove, and their journey in more detail.


Our founder Joost van Dongen was previously co-founder of Ronimo Games, the studio behind Awesomenauts and Swords & Soldiers. That was great fun, but as a gamer, Joost likes to play management games, not Ronimo’s action-packed multiplayer games. So after 13 years, Joost left Ronimo Games to follow his heart even more and make management games. At the end of 2021 he started working on Station to Station. When funding was secured he was able to start hiring a team and turn his solo project into a real team effort: Galaxy Grove! We’re now a 16 people team, working on Town to City and another unannounced management game.

Galaxy Grove Team


We saw some amazing voxel art on Twitter. When thinking of voxel art, most people think of Minecraft’s big cubes, but the art we saw was highly detailed, vibrant with tiny voxels. This looked amazing and we thought it should be possible to bring such detailed voxels to games too. One of the voxel artists that inspired us most was Dima and he even worked for Galaxy Grove for a while!


We looked at the tiny towns in the Station to Station landscapes and felt like we wanted to build those ourselves. We also wanted to make a deeper game than Station to Station, with a real economy and more management.

Screenshots of Station to Station


Do you know that feeling of a summer vacation in France? That’s what we wanted to reproduce! So we took inspiration from the south of France and other Mediterranean counties, especially Italy and Spain. We also wanted to take Station to Station’s paper UI aesthetic to a new place and got inspired by art nouveau posters. To match that in our game world we decided that the fanciest, most high-class buildings in Town to City should be inspired by art nouveau architecture.

Examples of Art Nouvea buildings


It’s an interesting experience. On the one hand we can draw on our experience making Station to Station, so we can skip a lot of big research steps. On the other hand, Town to City is a much more complex game, with a real-time economy, more features, more buildings, more UI, more everything! It’s a much bigger game!

Town to City


Really fun! The first prototypes created a fun experience after only a month or two and from there it has been continuously getting better. There’s an interesting challenge in trying to make something that’s more relaxing and easier to understand than most other city builders, while still having a good amount of depth and real management gameplay.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/3115220/Town_to_City/


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Town to City is a cozy city builder with a unique voxel art style, where you start with just a train station and an empty plot of land. Customize your town with a variety of buildings and decorations inspired by 19th century Mediterranean architecture, complete tasks from the townsfolk to raise happiness, and nurture your humble town into a bustling city.

The city building system in Town to City is entirely grid-less, so you’ll get to freely draw roads and place objects wherever and however you like! Most decorations will be modular, so you can transform your favourite flower bed into a flower window box by simply placing it below a window instead of on the ground or take a stylish streetlamp and turn it into a hanging wall lantern to light up a house’s doorway.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3115220/Town_to_City/



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