New Blood Interactive is a

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. Founded by Aaron Alexander, Kreyg DeZago, and Dave Oshry in 2014, the company originally developed

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games that were never released. In 2016, New Blood turned to publishing, first releasing Nick Clinkscales's ''Super Galaxy Squadron'' and finding early success with David Szymanski's ''

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''.

History

New Blood Interactive was founded in 2014 by lead

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Aaron Alexander, lead

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Kreyg DeZago, and

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Dave Oshry. Alexander and Oshry had previously collaborated on the 2013 remake of ''

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''. The company initially aimed to develop

games, including a boxing game it wanted to present at the

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. However, these plans never materialized. Oshry later came into contact with Nick Clinkscales. At the time, New Blood was looking for a

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ist and Clinkscales needed a publisher for his

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-backed game ''Super Galaxy Squadron'', so they agreed that New Blood would publish the game and Clinkscales join the company in return. ''Super Galaxy Squadron'' was released in January 2015. It was

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as ''Super Galaxy Squadron EX'' in February 2016, with the ''Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo'' version released in March 2017. When Oshry encountered David Szymanski, who knew Oshry had worked on the ''Rise of the Triad'' remake, Szymanski spontaneously decided to pitch his boomer shooter game ''

''. New Blood released the game into

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in January 2018, and its success gave the company long-time financial support. New Blood subsequently signed publishing agreements for further retro-style games, including ''

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'' and '' Faith: The Unholy Trinity''. Towards the end of ''Dusk''s early-access phase, the company brought in Dillon Rogers to help complete the game, which was released in December 2018. As New Blood employees, Rogers and Szymanski commenced work on the

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''Gloomwood''. Oshry considered this the beginning of a new phase for the studio, turning from solely a publisher to also developing games internally.

Organization

As of August 2022, New Blood has 25 employees. The company has a flat hierarchy with many developers helping out on other projects. Most planning is done via

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. Oshry oversees all development teams and manages the internal

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team, which routinely tests games during their development. Oshry supports

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s in the

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Games published

Unreleased

References

External links

* {{New Blood Interactive Video game companies established in 2014 Video game development companies Video game publishers