Announcing Lost & Found - Second Wind's Work for Hire Arm

Today we’re excited to announce Lost & Found, the new work-for-hire arm of Second Wind.

From day one, we planned to do work-for-hire projects to help keep Second Wind sustainable. Thanks to your incredible support during our first year, we were able to hold off on that and just focus on our core content.

Now that things have settled down, stabilized, and we’re into our usual weekly grooves again, we’re finally ready to start on this next part of our journey together.

Lost & Found will provide clients with multiple areas of support including premium asset creation, trailers, dev diaries, custom projects, social media assets, and outreach strategy. 

Our goal is to provide affordable support to indie developers to help their games stand out in an increasingly overcrowded market. We’re in a unique position to bring a content creator’s mindset to indie developers looking to catch people’s attention, as we ourselves have years of experience and know what we’re looking for when deciding on what games to cover.

Lost & Found will be completely separate from any of our core Second Wind output, with its own social media pages and YouTube channel. And any of the games or projects we work on will not be covered on Second Wind’s official channels in any form. 

This does not extend to our personal social media accounts, and clients may still do ad campaigns with us - which of course we will properly disclose as always.

This work-for-hire arm will also not impact any of our work on Second Wind as this is being led by myself (Nick) and Javed, with Omar and Matt providing support as needed. 

Our core focus remains on Second Wind and all of the shows, podcasts and livestreams we provide every week. 

Patreon is and will remain our core source of funding for all of the work we do, and we’re grateful for each and every one of you that has decided to support us. We’ve continued to add additional benefits to our Patreon tiers as time has gone, and plan to keep introducing new ideas and perks to make your subscription to us as valuable as possible.

If you want to keep up with the games we’re working on, you can follow Lost & Found over on Bluesky and subscribe to the Lost & Found YouTube channel. This channel will act as a showcase of our work and curation page for the titles we provide assistance to.

We’ve already been working together with our first client, the extremely talented team at Paint Bucket Games, on their upcoming game The Darkest Files. 

The Darkest Files is a historical investigation and courtroom game based on true crimes during the Second World War. Investigate cold cases, search for clues, interrogate witnesses, immerse yourself in the crimes, and defend your case in court to bring the perpetrators to justice.

The trailer linked here was developed completely in-house by Javed Sterritt with assets and support provided by the Paint Bucket Games team. We’re also helping them with social media strategy, asset creation, and outreach strategy as they quickly approach their March 25th launch date.

If you’re a developer, publisher, or anyone else that is interested in working with Lost & Found, feel free to reach out. We’re also taking in-person appointments at GDC this year.