A man in an orange shirt stands smiling at the entrance of a building with an arched doorway and decorative masks above. This is the Design & Creative Centre Kobe building.

Corner view of a modern, multi-story building with beige and brown facade, featuring vertical windows and a flag on top. Bicycles are parked by the entrance. This is the Design & Creative Centre Kobe building.

A smiling man in a rust-colored shirt and khaki pants stands in front of a world map, gesturing toward Dundee, Scotland with both hands.

A tranquil Japanese garden path with stone steps leads to a traditional wooden house, surrounded by lush green trees and bamboo fencing.

In September, we connected @johnjoemcbob.com of @veryevildemons.com with Kenji at Design & Creative Centre Kobe, hosts of Kobe's @unesco.org City of Design designation to chat all things design and visit some of Kobe's key design sites!

📸 Courtesy of Matthew Cormack + Kenji Kondo.

A person in a white tshirt with the Very Evil Demons logo on the back looks at the sign for Tokyo Game Show, large and colourful and featuring various popular video game characters. Little imps are scribbled on the photo.

If you're at Tokyo Game Show, watch out for demons...

We're in Japan for TGS 2025 this weekend! We'd love to chat about our game projects (we're seeking publishers!), and we're also open for work-for-hire. Summon us if you dare... (or just message us) 👹

Very happy to have been invited back to my old stomping grounds today to tell Abertay students the good word about co-ops 💖 And it was a real treat to see the games the 3rd year students have been working on this semester!! What an incredibly talented bunch, the future of games is looking bright 🌟

Very Evil Demons logo on a cream wall with leaves in the foreground

Matthew Cormack [he/him] is a creative technologist and 1/5th of Very Evil Demons!
He loves TTRPGs, combining physical/digital media, & prototyping
Previous clients include The Guggenheim, Yale University
johnjoemcbob.com

Currently prototyping an incremental falling sand game (with wizards) and needed a tutorial, so here's me acting as your most humble vizier in some old school FMVs! 🔊
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

A screenshot of Very Evil Demons' Bluesky profile, showing that the account has 1k followers. There are drawings of demons tooting trumpets on either side.

Wow, we've just reached one thousand followers here on Bluesky! Thank you all so much for joining us on our journey—we're excited to share more soon about the strange and arcane game projects we've been brewing up...👀

UK worker co-ops - Bluesky Directory A list of worker co-ops and projects working on economic democracy and collective ownership at work, in the UK. And federations, alliances and co-op projects internationally with relevance to us in th...

To make the transition to Bluesky easier for co-ops, we've put together a Bluesky UK worker co-op Starter Pack here: buff.ly/4gRbdgM ✨
(If you'd like to be added, message us!)

It was extremely lovely to chat with you and the Fractals gang today!! Thanks for meeting with us - hopefully we'll have many more fun chats about game jams and geese on bikes to come 🫶

I started a very wip started pack of worker-owned videogames co-ops ✊️ let me know who I'm missing!
#gamedev
go.bsky.app/NDdAqko

We would love to be added to this starter pack! Thanks for the shoutout Jaime 💜

An event stand set up with two laptops and an assortment of game controllers. One screen displays the main menu of Bean To Me, and the other shows Springpongs menu.

We're all set up and ready to go at the Scottish Games Frenzy in Glasgow! Come try your hand at Bean To Me and Springpong 🌟

Save 10% on Bean To Me! on Steam Use strange and magical beans to bend the rules and chain together absurd synergies in a wild twist on the ancient game of Mancala. Battle your friends, collect new beans, and build the ultimate bean ...

Head over to our store page to bag those beans for yourself, or try out our free demo!
store.steampowered.com/app/3001670

The words "Bean to Me!" on a checkerboard background with beans flying out in all directions.

It’s time to crack open a refreshing can of beans! Bean to Me, the Mancala-like battle of wits with weird beans and wild strategies is launching on Steam for PC and Steam Deck today!
#gamedev #indiegames #beantome #mancala

Splash art for Bean To Me!, showing the games logo on a checkered purple background. Various strange beans burst forth from the centre.

Splash art for Springpong, showing the games logo with two of the games flower-themed characters on either side. A football-like playing field from the game is visible in the background.

Tomorrow, on the most ghoulish day of the year, we'll be manifesting at the Scottish Games Frenzy in Glasgow!

Come along and behold not one, but two of our games - we'll be showing demos for Bean To Me (which also releases on Steam tomorrow!!) and Springpong 🫘🌼

games.creative.barclays/events/sgw/

Bean To Me! on Steam Use strange and magical beans to bend the rules and chain together absurd synergies in a wild twist on the ancient game of Mancala. Battle your friends, collect new beans, and build the ultimate bean ...

Visit our Steam page and Wishlist us today! If you’re up for a challenge, download the free demo and give it a try for yourself - can you become the brainiest bean strategist with the biggest bean synergies?
store.steampowered.com/app/3001670
Full version coming October 31st!

NEXT FEST Bean to Me Very Evil Demons Check out our game demo during Steam Next Fest. Oct 14 - 21 at 10AM PT

We’re thrilled to announce that Bean to Me, the single-and-multiplayer Mancala-like game with weird rule-bending beans is coming to this October’s Steam Next Fest which begins today at 10am PT / 6pm BST! #steamnextfest #nextfest #gamedev #indiegames

we made a worker co-op! and the worker co-op makes games!!

check out veryevildemons.com if yr on the search for co-dev/porting/prototyping! or just want to find out about some evil ol' games 🤠

look at this gnome I made for this 🫵

Key art for the game Crystals of Runewood. The classic MMORPG-styled logo for the game sits on top of a blurred background of a town from the game.

We greatly enjoyed partaking in this years #GMTKJam over the past few days!

Our offering is Crystals of Runewood, a bite-sized peek into the life cycle of a mid-2000's MMORPG. You can play it in your browser, if you'd like!

veryevildemons.itch.io/crystals-of-...

We've gone and started a game studio!!

The five of us have been super busy laying the foundations for our co-op for the past few months and we've got something really special going - keep an eye out for some extremely sick worker-owned devilry from your friends from hell 😈🔥

An illustrated banner displaying the Very Evil Demons logo, with two small demons on either side tooting horns.

Something wicked this way comes...

The summoning has succeeded; Very Evil Demons have arrived on the material plane!

We're a brand new worker-owned game studio based in Dundee. We're open for business, and we have our own devilish projects brewing - stay tuned for more 🔮