Nitrate Games Reveals Jay and Silent Bob Farming Sim at NYCC

Nitrate Games introduced Jay and Silent Bob’s Joint Venture at New York Comic Con on October 8, 2026, presenting a mature cozy farming simulation game based on Kevin Smith’s characters and View Askewniverse. The title will enter playtesting before its planned late Spring 2027 Steam and PC release, with a console launch also scheduled for 2027.

The game allows players to build, cultivate and expand an operation while interacting with characters from Smith’s connected film universe. According to Nitrate Games, the project continues story elements from the movies rather than serving as a standalone adaptation.

Characters revealed for the game include Dante, Randal, Veronica, Brodie, T.S. Quint, Holden, Banky, Hooper, Alyssa, Azrael, Serendipity, Becky, Elias and Mooby. The project features creative involvement from Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes, with Ernie Altbacker handling writing duties.

Nitrate Games co-founder Montana Sommese said the game expands the filmmaker’s fictional universe through interactive storytelling.

"Joint Venture is a Jay and Silent Bob game, but it’s actually a continuation of Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse. The central narrative picks up where the films left off making the game a kind of sequel," said Montana Sommese, Nitrate Games co-founder.

Sommese added that the title is designed to let players interact with characters from Smith’s films in a new format and allow future narrative expansions.

"Players can befriend and engage with their favorite characters from Kevin Smith’s movies like never before. As we update the game over time, we’re excited to be able to expand Kevin’s story universe with narrative updates that will continue building from his cinematic universe," said Montana Sommese, Nitrate Games co-founder.

Nitrate Games co-founder Daniel Kendrick described the studio’s approach as an effort to combine established entertainment properties with indie game development. The company currently has six games in development.

"From the time Hugh Jackman showed up as Wolverine, comics have been seen as the font of pop culture. But now, we are seeing a shift, and a new pop culture source forming from indie video games," said Daniel Kendrick, Nitrate Games co-founder.

Kendrick said the studio wants to build a long-term presence in independent games while applying ideas from the comics industry to interactive projects.

"I want Nitrate Games to be a part of that wave over the next 20 years. We bring comic book sensibilities and strategies to indie games. In the same way that Dark Horse and Image Comics and IDW had this wave of new indie comics with compelling voices, we want to do that for indie games," said Daniel Kendrick, Nitrate Games co-founder.

Nitrate Games is also developing projects based on film and television properties from the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, alongside original titles created with entertainment industry collaborators. The studio is based in Los Angeles and Philadelphia.