{"id":512536,"date":"2026-06-22T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512536\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:00:12","slug":"thank-you-for-your-application-recoups-dev-costs-in-22-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512536\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You For Your Application recoups dev costs in 22 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Thank You For Your Application has recouped its development costs in just 22 hours. The narrative-driven interview simulator is the brainchild of IceLemonTea Studio, a cohort of young developers fresh out of university.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Publisher No More Robots shared the news and told Game Developer the title had a five-figure budget including development costs, localization, and marketing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">&#8220;Production started in January 2025. It was due to release at the start of this year but we pushed it back a little when we realized how big it was going to be, so that we could polish the crap out of it,&#8221; said No More Robots founder Mike Rose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve said this many, many times before, but larger budgets and longer schedules do not lead to better games, and the industry as a whole really needs to finally learn that lesson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">Thank You For Your Application launched on Steam and is slated to arrive on consoles and mobile later this year. It debuted on the PC storefront with a 15 percent introductory discount, lowing the price of admission to \u00a312.74 from \u00a314.99.<\/p>\n<p data-component=\"related-article\" class=\"RelatedArticle\">Related:<a class=\"RelatedArticle-RelatedContent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamedeveloper.com\/business\/obituary-ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot-killed-in-plane-crash\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Obituary: Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\">No More Robots previously revealed the project had amassed over 135,000 wishlists on Steam prior to launch.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thank You For Your Application has recouped its development costs in just 22 hours. The narrative-driven interview simulator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-512536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}