Gamma Minus
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2018
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 2
About Gamma Minus
Gamma Minus is an independent German video game developer established in 2018. The studio develops original PC and console games alongside full-cycle development and creative production services for external clients. Its work combines narrative design, strategy and tactics with stylized visual direction, including the neon-noir aesthetics of the 1980s.
Its debut commercial title, Rough Justice: '84, is a board-game-inspired narrative tactics game published by Daedalic Entertainment on March 13, 2023. The project brings together management and strategic decision-making with mechanics drawn from tabletop games, including dice, cards and puzzle mini-games. Other announced projects include Cold Comfort, an asymmetrical tactical 5v5 zombie shooter; Gamma Strain, a cooperative third-person tactical horror shooter; Pneumatic Panic, a cooperative road-trip survival game; and VYAL, a roguelite alien horror shooter. These projects extend the studio's interests into competitive multiplayer, cooperative play, survival and horror.
Development and creative production
Gamma Minus offers development support from early prototypes and concept design through engineering, testing and production coordination. Its technical services include Unreal Engine 4 and 5 and Unity development, network integration, custom tools and pipelines, and performance and memory optimization. Production support encompasses milestone planning, task breakdown and coordination across disciplines.
The studio's visual services cover 2D illustration, character and creature design, environments, vehicles, 3D modeling, level design and branding. Its capabilities also include modular character generation systems and stylized art direction.
Script and voice production form another part of its service offering, spanning scriptwriting, casting, recording, voice direction and audio post-production. This complements its engineering and art services, allowing clients to commission several parts of a game's production through the same studio.
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Founders and production experience
- The studio was co-founded by Jeremiah Joseph Costello and Friedrich Klemme. The report identifies their executive roles as CEO and Project Lead, and CFO and Executive Producer, respectively; it separately records their subsequent appointment as liquidators.
- The co-founders had collaborated since 2004 before establishing Gamma Minus.
- The studio's audio offering draws on Jeremiah Costello and Mike Bodie's combined experience in voice performance and audio direction, reported as more than 45 years across hundreds of games. This is background experience rather than a company credit count.
Operating model
The report describes a remote-first organization that combines a core team with an international network of contract specialists across engineering, narrative, visual arts and sound.
Project recognition
Rough Justice: '84 received an Epic MegaGrant in May 2022 and won a Nordic Game Discovery Contest Qualifier in April 2022. These recognitions are attributed to the game project.
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Where Gamma Minus is based
- Hildebrandtstraße 3, 40215 Düsseldorf, GermanyDüsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Düsseldorf office
HeadquartersOpened 2021
About this office
Registered legal office and overall headquarters following the September 2021 relocation from Paderborn. The company is undergoing statutory liquidation.
- Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Paderborn office
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