Games Lift: Hacking and Snacking with Project Slimepot

Key insights

6 takeaways

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The Games Lift Incubator in Hamburg provides a structured support system for independent studios, offering mentorship, workshops, and financial resources to transition concepts into market-ready products.
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Calluna Games, a four-person team with two years of prior collaboration, is currently incubating their project, 'Project Slimepot,' through this program.
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Project Slimepot features a 'Slay, Cook, Serve' core loop that has been refined from a tavern-management focus to a streamlined experience centered on character progression and team-building.
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The incubator’s workshops on competition analysis and product development have guided Calluna Games to pivot their creative scope toward a dark fairy tale universe.
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Calluna Games is currently focused on formalizing their company structure, creating proof-of-concept demos, and securing additional financing.
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Project Slimepot has an estimated development timeline of one to two years to reach market readiness.

Summary

Project Slimepot, a game in development by the four-person Hamburg team Calluna Games, is profiled as one of the projects in Gamecity Hamburg's Games Lift Incubator in a feature published November 4, 2025. The piece presents the team as flexible and fast-moving, largely because its members have worked together for two years after meeting at a previous employer. Franziska Neu is the generalist handling programming and project management, Sebastian Baier is the game programmer, Inga Kriz is art director, and Moritz Biederbick is game designer and writer who originated the concept.

The game is pitched under the genre label "Hack 'n Snack" and draws inspiration from the anime "Delicious in Dungeon." Its core loop of "Slay, Cook, Serve" combines action-adventure exploration and combat, crafting through cooking monster parts, and strategy in serving dishes. Workshops within the incubator, covering product field analysis, competition analysis, and modern game marketing, pushed the team to sharpen its focus on market and audience.

As a result, the design has been slimmed down. The original tavern-management idea was dropped, and the hero now cooks for his own adventuring party, with the challenge lying in preparing the right dishes to build a stronger team. The setting has been narrowed to a dark German fairy tale universe, with a new protagonist: a rugged white bunny, a creature proverbially seen as cowardly in Germany but portrayed here as brave.

Development remains early. A release is expected to be at least one to two years away. The team is preparing to found a company, building proof-of-concept gameplay demos, and planning financing. Surrounding site content notes that the 2026 Games Lift offers five teams 15,000 euros in funding, a workshop program, mentoring, and a 1,000-euro coaching budget.