Factsheet

Developer: JMAA GAMES - based in San Sebastian, Spain

Founding date: April, 2020

Website: jmaa.tv

Press / Business Contact:

Scammer honeypot (don’t send actual emails here): herrhollenhund [at] protonmail [dot] com

jmaa [at] jmaa [dot] tv

Social: campsite.bio/jmaatv (All social links)

Releases: Johann Weiss, HAMSTER GAME, Sass VS Fash: Girlballs of Steel

Contact

Inquiries: juanmtheripper [at] gmail [dot] com

Twitter: twitter.com/DrilSargeant

Facebook: facebook.com/jmaaonline

Web: jmaa.tv

Description

JMAA GAMES is a Spanish independent game studio founded by Joan Marie Arroyo Alcón (JMAA) in 2020 mainly focused on action games, retro games, or FPS games. JMAA GAMES’ motto is “we play on Ultra-Violence, and everyone else plays checkers”, a declaration to the world of the dire situations and hardships the founder of the studio would have faced getting to the current status of JMAA GAMES.

History

Early history

JMAA GAMES was founded in 2020 by JMAA, after circumstances that would leave them with no other choice than to make games instead of live-streaming. The first game JMAA GAMES attempted to develop was HAMSTER GAME, a top-down shooter in which the main protagonist battles demons in a hamster-riddled world. Later on, the game would be put on indefinite hold due to the lack of financial resources to pull through, and the amount of stress accumulated during development.

Johann Weiss

JMAA GAMES would begin to develop Johann Weiss in May 2020, as an entry to a Metroidvania game jam in itch.io. Johann Weiss would be the first in the flagship series of JMAA GAMES, a game about a German Catholic renegade citizen named Johann Weiss, and his sister Joanna Weiss, who has been captured by a Satanic cult to summon Hell on Earth. Johann Weiss has the player, with its eponymous character, traverse in an action platformer game battling hordes of demons in a similar fashion to classic games such as Duke Nukem 2 for DOS PC. The game wouldn’t be, however, that much of a success, due to the limited marketing capabilities and it would be rather a slow burner in sales.

Recent

Recently, JMAA GAMES has started developing Sass VS Fash: Girlballs of Steel, among several other games in production. JMAA GAMES has taken a more left-leaning political approach in philosophy, making games and decisions that are more inclusive and more in a punching-up fashion. JMAA GAMES has set its goal to generate games that are inclusive and subversive in terms of anti-capitalistic and anti-fascist ideologies. One of the latest games made by JMAA alone at JMAA GAMES, You Just Die, is a criticism to the lie of meritocracy, and the power imbalances inbound in capitalist societies.

What started in JMAA GAMES as previously a bigoted company with a shallow reputation, has become a better company, more LGBTQIA+ friendly, supportive of POC and indigenous people, and always full of wholesome and epic memes.