Gameoverse
Genre	Action comedy[1]
Created by	Ross O'Donovan
Based on	Gameoverse by Ross O'Donovan
Written by	Arin Hanson Ross O'Donovan[‡ 1]
Directed by	Ross O'Donovan[‡ 1]
Voices of	Erica Lindbeck jschlatt Arin Hanson Christopher Sabat Ross O'Donovan Elsie Lovelock Lisa Reimold
Ending theme	"How to Adventure" by Dunderpatrullen
Composers	Jake Kaufman Grant Kirkhope
Country of origin	Australia[2]
Original language	English
No. of episodes	1
Production
Executive producers	Kevin Lerdwichagul Luke Lerdwichagul Ross O'Donovan Arin Hanson
Producer	Charles Mohl[a]
Editor	Adam Smith
Running time	32 minutes
Production company	Glitch Productions
Original release
Network	YouTube
Release	15 May 2026 (2026-05-15)

Gameoverse is an Australian independent-animated web series created and directed by Ross O'Donovan, co-written by Arin Hanson, and produced by Glitch Productions, based on a 2009 web series of the same name.^[3] The pilot episode was released on 15 May 2026 on Glitch Productions' YouTube channel.^[4][5] Gameoverse is the studio's second traditionally animated series after Knights of Guinevere.^[4]

Gameoverse takes place in a multiverse of video game worlds; within the Gameoverse, if a game's hero successfully defeats the game's villain and completes the game, the game world proceeds to be annihilated. Two rival groups, the Farcade and the Syntax, struggle against each other to respectively prevent or facilitate this destruction. The series follows Kit, a Farcade agent who travels from world to world attempting to save them by helping each game's villains, while contending with the Syntax, who assist heroes in order to expedite their worlds' annihilation.^[2][6][5][7]

• Kit Bodega^{[‡ 2]} (voiced by Erica Lindbeck), the cat-like heroine of a destroyed video game world who works as an agent of the Farcade, aiding villains from other worlds to prevent their destruction.^[1][5][7]
• Kaboodle (voiced by jschlatt),^[1] Kit's brash and cynical mechanical backpack sidekick.
• Gobbles (voiced by Arin Hanson),^[1] an anxious but friendly "Learnosaurus" who was the hero of a children's edutainment game, Gobbles and the Learnosaurs.
• Flappers (voiced by Arin Hanson),^[1] the enthusiastic but dimwitted titular hero of Flappers the Super Dolphin.
• Warrick (voiced by Christopher Sabat),^[1] the leader of Syntax, a group of video game villains that seek to destroy worlds by aiding their heroes.^[7]
• Fold (voiced by Ross O'Donovan),^[8] a member of the Syntax made of paper that can take any shape.
• Miss Information (voiced by Elsie Lovelock),^[1] a human-like member of Syntax.

• Scratch (voiced by AmaLee), a deceased resident of Kit's world
• Orph (voiced by Vinny Vinesauce), a deceased chef from Kit's world
• Malice (voiced by Lisa Reimold),^[8] the villain of Kit's game world and a member of the Syntax, accompanied by her non-speaking backpack companion, Mayhem.
• Snappers (voiced by Michael Cusack),^[1] the villain of Flappers the Super Dolphin.
• Floaties (voiced by Ross O'Donovan), minions of the Syntax.
• Crab Girl (voiced by Matt Watson), a member of the Syntax.

Gameoverse was created by independent animator Ross O'Donovan, also known as RubberRoss,^[9] and was developed over the course of eleven years beginning in 2015.^[2] The series is derived from a 2009 web series of the same name, also created by O'Donovan. This earlier series differed from the 2026 version in many ways; it featured different characters, lower animation quality, and a simpler plot.^[9][10] In a 2026 interview, Arin Hanson said that he and his team spent years pitching the series to various studios, but were always rejected. He decided to finance the series himself and said that thanks to his persistence, the series was eventually noticed by Australian animation studio Glitch Productions. Afterwards, the team reworked the script of the show, and Hanson said the script underwent "700 different rewrites and iterations".^[11] In 2017, Ross O'Donovan showed Gameoverse to Glitch Productions founders Luke and Kevin Lerdwichagul.^[12]

In January 2026, Glitch Productions announced that it partnered with O'Donovan and Arin Hanson for full release of the series on its YouTube channel. In an announcement, CEO of Glitch Productions Kevin Lerdwichagul described the collaboration as a "natural fit with the company's indie animation mission" and said he was "struck by its world-building, creativity and depth".^[2][4] The first teaser for the series appeared on the studio's Twitter account on 18 January 2026, and a trailer for the series was released on YouTube on 23 January.^[9] The series' pilot episode was released on 15 May 2026.^[5] The series features music created by composers Grant Kirkhope and Jake Kaufman.^[12] Additional animation services for the series' pilot was provided by Studio Meala, with cleanup services provided by Digitoonz Media, Dinamita Animación, and Toon City Vancouver, while compositing was done by Titmouse, Inc., also in Vancouver.^{[‡ 3][non-primary source needed]} By May 16, the pilot had reached 4 million views.^[7]

Prior to the pilot's release, Comicon.com wrote that it liked the series' premise and its parody of "1990s-era edutainment games".^[13] After pilot's release, David Kaldor of Bubbleblabber described the characters and animation of the pilot as "very engaging" but the pilot's worldbuilding as "confusing". He called the pilot a "solid start" and said he believes the series will "reach greatness" after the greenlight.^[7] Anime Superhero News wrote that although the pilot was not "groundbreaking", it was "fun for what it is", and compared the pilot to the 1994 animated TV series ReBoot.^[14] Anuraag Chatterjee of FandomWire described the series as "like Wreck-it-Ralph meets Mighty Cat Masked Niyander in the best ways possible". He said it was impressive that the series had already gained a large fan base with just a pilot episode.^[15]

In the text, these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):

• Gameoverse at IMDb