Planetary Core Games

Planetary Core Games is an independent game development studio consisting of a ragtag group of rocket scientists, nerds, board game enthusiasts, veterinarians and R&B stars (yes, really).

"Academy of Superpets" is our first project, and its story is quite hard to trace because it is a game that simply happened! We created it by talking about our pets, which are our muses for creation 😁 Although our pets don’t shoot laser beams from their eyes, and they don’t barf poison that often…

Now that we're nearing the finish line, Patrick, our game dev and studio owner, after years of working together, decided to drop this little origin story bomb on us:

“Did I ever tell you guys this game started as monsters vs heroes. I was gonna call it monster zoo. And you would run the evil monster team in the zoo that got loose, as heroes tried to come in and get slaughtered.”

Honestly? That tracks. For months, our heroic superpets were battling mutant rats on a sketchy island. It was intense. So many rats went down in each mission, we could’ve just named the game Academy of Pest Control. 😶 Who’s the real monster here?! 😅😂

We reworked that part 😇. The hero pets are well trained to hit the rats’ weak spots to help them revert from evil mutant rat to cute little mousy. The real enemies are not the rats… but you’ll have to play the game to find out what’s going on in the island! 👀

Why the sudden burst of productivity? That would be thanks to Patrick again—who thought it’d be fun to sign us up for PAX East 2025... with only three months to prepare. 🙃

We used to be a weekend passion project studio, but this is how we became a full-time, crunch-time, rain-or-shine dream team.

The game officially launches at PAX East 2025 on May 8th, and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with the world! Come say hello, booth 15111!

Also, side note from Patrick:

I do want to make like a space truckers game someday.