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The Kaiyo Mission - Update May 2026
Based on player feedback, minor bugs have been corrected.
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The Kaiyo Mission
Also known as The Kaiyo Mission, kaiyo mission, km
Control a submarine or a diver into the depths of unknown underwater worlds and take photographs of alien animals, plants and artefacts. Continue your journey through this casual, side-scroller, exploration game and collect stars to unlock more secrets before travelling to an alien home planet.
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31 May 2026
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20 updates
February 2025
- First update after release v.1.0.01Minor incremental improvements and bug fixes based on feedback.
January 2025
- New Year, New BeginningsAfter what I’ve heard a lot of people describe as a challenging year, here at eXplore Studio we have been reflecting on what progress we have made. It has not been all sunshine and rainbows for us either. We have had ou…
November 2024
- Working using the Agile principlesAt eXplore Studio, we see the value of taking an agile approach to our work. This working style still includes two structured weekly meetings with the whole team, with a scrum planning meeting on Monday and a technical…
- Making The Kaiyo Mission accessible to allWhilst developing video games, accessibility might not be your first thought. After all, some people argue that certain accessibility functions could limit your creative scope. However, here at eXplore Studio we believe…
October 2024
- The Kaiyo Mission - The submarine on EnceladusIn the first mission phase of The Kaiyo Mission, the player controls a submarine that is exploring the underwater plateau of Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. While the submarine is discovering this new fascinating, extra-te…
- The Kaiyo Mission - Portals and travels‘Are you telling me that one of our two ESEL submarines that landed on Enceladus last month, that was deployed, melted through the ice, found life in the subsurface ocean, and suddenly vanished…has been found on Earth l…
- Why is it so important to estimate the workload of your team?Many developers do not bother with estimating their workload, because it takes time and effort, and in most cases, estimates turn out to be incorrect anyway. This is true. All estimates will probably be false. Too many…
September 2024
- The Kaiyo Mission - The habitat on EnceladusAn Underwater Inflatable Life Support System (UILSS) has been put on Europa in the vicinity of the portal to Earth and before it is fully operational, two researchers of The Kaiyo Mission are there at work, 1.44 billion…
- One might think the situation is hopeless, when small indie game studios try to gain visibility and traction in the market, given that they have to compete against seemingly very powerful, big companies with impressive…Store
- The Kaiyo Mission - The compendium explainedSince The Kaiyo Mission belongs to the hard science fiction genre, with animals, plants and artefacts created and named for the game itself, we thought that a compendium would be one of the many cool features to impleme…
- Why is there still much hope even without having a publisher?Small game development studios face several challenges in gaining visibility in the large market of games – why is there still much hope even without having a publisher? The global gaming industry keeps growing at a rap…
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