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Overview

Silver Lining Interactive is an indie game publisher headquartered in Cheshire, England. Founded in 2024, the company focuses exclusively on publishing independent games, providing marketing, quality assurance, and porting support to small development studios while allowing them to retain full creative freedom over their projects.

Silver Lining Interactive partnered with Square Glade Games to publish Outbound, a cozy open-world van life game set in a solarpunk near-future. The partnership was announced during Outbound's Kickstarter campaign, which raised more than 885% of its initial funding goal.

History

Silver Lining Interactive was established in 2024 with a mission to support indie developers through the publishing process. The company was built around the idea that small studios often have strong creative visions but lack the resources for marketing, testing, and multi-platform distribution. Rather than acquiring studios or demanding creative control, Silver Lining Interactive positions itself as a service-oriented publisher that handles the business side while developers focus on making their games.

Since its founding, the company has built a growing catalogue of indie titles spanning multiple genres. Its publishing approach emphasizes long-term partnerships with developers rather than one-off deals.

Silver Bullet Programme

The Silver Bullet Programme is Silver Lining Interactive's flagship initiative for supporting indie game developers. The programme offers funding of up to $100,000 per project, along with comprehensive publishing support that covers marketing, quality assurance, and porting assistance.

A defining feature of the Silver Bullet Programme is that developers retain full creative freedom over their projects. Silver Lining Interactive does not impose design changes or creative direction as a condition of funding. The programme is designed to remove financial and logistical barriers so that small teams can focus entirely on development.

Key benefits of the Silver Bullet Programme include:

• Funding: Up to $100,000 to support development costs

• Marketing: Full marketing strategy and campaign execution

• Quality Assurance: Professional QA testing across platforms

• Porting: Assistance bringing games to additional platforms

• Creative Freedom: Developers keep complete control over their game's direction and design

Published Titles

Silver Lining Interactive has published or announced publishing deals for several indie titles in addition to Outbound.

Partnership with Square Glade Games

Silver Lining Interactive's partnership with Square Glade Games to publish Outbound represents one of the company's most high-profile projects. Under this arrangement, Square Glade Games handles all development and creative decisions for Outbound, while Silver Lining Interactive manages publishing, distribution, marketing support, and platform coordination.

The partnership allows Square Glade Games, a small independent studio, to concentrate on building Outbound without the overhead of self-publishing. Silver Lining Interactive's involvement became public during the Outbound Kickstarter campaign, where the publisher's support was cited as part of the project's infrastructure for delivering on stretch goals and platform commitments.

This collaboration follows Silver Lining Interactive's standard model: the developer retains full ownership and creative control, while the publisher provides the business framework needed to reach a wide audience.