An overview of the Spring 2025 season of Dogfood Studios.
📅 Period: February 2025 - July 2025
👾 Students: GDTB ~57, GDTA ~18, Visual Design Interns ~4
News
Spring 2025 was about evolutions and revolutions. We are building on a solid basis of our Game Design and Game Production semester topics and started developing with a small team, an introductory Game Development semester. The three topics combined with an internship and graduation project we have achieved full-on dedicated Game (ICT) study programme.
As always, we booted up the season with a board game design challenge and the strange devices refresher assignment. From there on all groups worked their gamepads off to get presentable passion games for the Dragons’ Den event, with Cataminer being the clear winner. Dogfood Studios was present at the first SXSW London event and we hosted our second Godot User meeting. A traditional ending of the semester is the Innovations Insight event where the Cataminers won our third (and counting) SPARC award of the current Aeon.
But every silver lining has a hidden darkness and things will change in the upcoming season. Locations are shifting, teams are broken up and reordered. But also, Dogfood Studios will try to go full Foundation and in doing so will separate itself officially from the Fontys ICT game study program and team. It also means, a new logo, more colors, and the sky as the limit. Keep in touch!
Your Own Game (2nd year students)
See a showcase with playable versions on our itch.io / Game Design Spring 2025 page.
Dragons’ Den (3rd year students)
Check the trailer of the winning team:
This edition featured the following dragons:
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Ellis Bartholomeus | Game Design & Interaction Design consulting EllisInWonderland |
| Martine Spaans | General Manager DGA, Game Publisher at FGL and Tamalaki |
| Bertine van Hövell tot Westerflier | Board member Dutch Game Association (DGA) |
| Tim van der Grinten | CEO Enversed Studios |
And the following 6 Game Studios presented their games:
| When | What |
|---|---|
| 13:00 | Dragons are introduced |
| 13:20 | 🥘 Mogie Games - Forbanne |
| 13:40 | 🥘 Catdrink Studios - Catamyte |
| 14:00 | 🥘 Arcade Journey Games - Journey of a Jester |
| 14:00 | Break |
| 14:40 | 🥘 Chronicle Forge Studios - Nevermourn |
| 15:00 | 🥘 Open Learning Studio - TBA |
| 15:20 | 🥘 Open Timeslot - TBA |
| 15:00 | Closing remarks |
| 15:15 | Drinks and snacks, playing your games |
Industry Projects
Final demo: Thu Jun 26, 2025, 14:00-16:00 (Innovations Insight)