Hi so remember when I said I’d be doing something weekly like… eight months ago? And I said that after making a blog post about how I was taking too long between blog posts? Ha! Well, it’s officially August and what a rollercoaster of a year 2025 has been. All that being said, I think enough other people have covered the state of the game industry, so I think it’s more important to cover the state of Lantana Games. That’s why you’re here, isn’t it? I think the most pressing matter is to discuss the keymailer situation, because things have gotten interesting on that front.

So in a weird turn of events, all of the key services we’ve used to support Content Creators – be it keymailer, Woovit, or DoDistribute – have either shut down or become too expensive for us to keep using. While we appreciate everything these services did for us in the past, helping streamers and video creators get access to our games, the fact that they are all vanishing or squeezing out indies is a sure sign of the times.

But fear not, friends! We are officially rolling our OWN alternative to keyymailer, and should hopefully have even less friction than before. If you visit our Content Creators page, you’ll notice a brand new contact form to fill out. Just let us know your platform URL’s and which game you want a key for, and press submit. This will send an email to a new address on our end, and after we take a couple minutes to vet the info, we’ll send a game key your way.

Since we’re no longer limited by keymailer’s campaign times, ALL of our games are available for streaming! If you’d like a key, just fill out the form.

Oh also if you represent a media publication or group of creators, you can request up to 5 keys instead of just one. It goes without saying but make sure these other keys get to your colleagues! They’re not for giveaways or Grey Market sales. If you’d like to do a giveaway of a Lantana title, the old rule still applies: post something about the game first, THEN we can talk giveaway.

It’s a shame, but Mondrian – Plastic Reality is now marching toward its final update. This is an update I’ve spent the last month on, and it is one I’ll be spending at least a few more weeks or months on before it gets released. The update will have a lot of treats for Mondrian Maker fans, including:

• Two new block shapes (Right Triangle and Quarter Circle)
• Angle/Scale sliders
• Improved legibility on RGB values
• The ability to click numbers to type them in
• Bigger text entry boxes
• Updated menu buttons

Various other fixes and improvements are being made all around the game too, like new and improved Museum showcase art, detaching holiday triggers from web calls, and some menu control improvements. It will be a big-ish update. Not the biggest, but it will be a good update to say goodbye. Despite this being the last update, though, we’ll also publish some levels featuring the new block shapes up onto Steam Workshop, and hopefully you will too!

“The Last Exhibit” will be coming… sometime soonish. Aiming for the Fall, and I’ll post more news when I have it.

“But what about my data?” I hear you asking. Worry not! I don’t care about it. All I need is an email address to A. get back in touch with you with a key, and B. confirm the URLs you include are indeed yours. All submissions are set to auto-delete after a week anyway. I’m not selling anything you submit along on this form. Data brokers are gross.

Signing off for now, as always. I’ll be back when “The Last Exhibit” is live, and then after that? Who’s to say. In the meantime, go buy some indie games, share them with your friends, and go enjoy the Dog Days of Summer. Like the old saying goes, Winter is coming.