A photo of a 3D-print of the Duck Truck from Steamworld Quest game. In front of the 3D print there is an acrylic figure of Edgar Roni Figaro from Final Fantasy VI. Behind the whole thing there is a traditional art piece of Duck Truck and some other birds in a hot spring.

Some old, some new and some cleaning to do!

Duck Truck is the small, but best, foot print I left behind the Steamworld Games.
Edgar is just Edgar! ❤️☝️

(gifts from @agzdegrey.bsky.social and Peter B at @splendidfailures.bsky.social )

#finalfantasyvi #steamworldquest

Today I'm doing my first real proper workday as game designer, co-founder and CEO at @splendidfailures.bsky.social.

I've crawled through Swedish bureaucracy to secure a grant that gives med financial support, but I've finally arrived at the starting point. Feels good!

#gamedev #indiedev #Godot

In A Corporate Machine you play as Sanitron TC-84, the world's most overqualified robot vacuum cleaner.
Unseen and underappreciated, but also free to shake things up!
#indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #Blender #godot #videogames #cozygaming

The environment in our game, A Corporate Machine, is inspired by tech and interior decoration from the 70s to the 90s. But with more advanced capabilities like wireless communication protocols and one heck of a smart robot vacuum cleaner. #indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #blender #godot

Some days, having worked as a tech artist for a decade, has me feeling like Lunch Lord from Girls5eva. You want me to make a single crystal for the game? Sure, just let me build a system to generate an infinite amount of any type of crystal #techart #geometrynodes #Blender #gamedev

A 3d render of two characters eating slices of pizza while a cure robot vacuum cleaner pulls a full sized pie along the floor, leaving a greasy trail behind. On a small table in the background there is a stack of pizza boxes and some party hats. A sign on the table reads: Q2 celebratory Pizza Party, 1 slice per employee" and the Q2 text is printed on a swappable card.

A rough pencil sketch of two characters eating slices of pizza while a cure robot vacuum cleaner pulls a full sized pie along the floor, leaving a greasy trail behind. On a small table in the background there is a stack of pizza boxes and some party hats. A sign on the table reads: Q2 celebratory Pizza Party, 1 slice per employee"

We're doing thumbnail sketches to capture the tone of the narrative in A Corporate Machine. They're also perfect fodder when developing the look of the game #indiegame #gamedev #blender #screenshotsaturday

We're kicking off 2026 with some more tweaks on the demo, and getting a head start on a more polished future version by working on a template rig for the human NPCs in our game A Corporate Machine #screenshotsaturday #Blender #indiegame #gamedev #acorporatemachine

For this #screenshotsaturday, we’re going back in time some months to share a silly trial render from when we were exploring the look of the office dwellers in A Corporate Machine.
We’ve since ditched the thumb-shaped heads… but the overall look and feel is still there #gamedev #indiegame #blender

Hi, we’re Splendid Failures, a small indie game studio in Gothenburg, Sweden, working on our first game: A Corporate Machine.

Play as Sanitron TC-84, the world’s most overqualified cleaning robot, and explore life of the giant conglomerate Omega Global.

Follow along for updates on our progress!

Happy Saint Lucy's Day! #godot #blender #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame

concept art of two office workers. one "inexplicably cool accountant" and one "ambitious corp goon". The cool accountant has a beanie hat and hair infront of their face, making a cool hand gesture. The ambitious corp goon looks like a know it all bootlicker, with a blazer and slicked back hair

Concept art of an "it-goth" and a "sould drained long ago". Soul drained is an old man who looks just that, soul drained. The it-goth looks like an introvert wearing purple, with a pentagram necklace

Got any fun ideas for office people? We've started concepting all sorts of fun little guys that you might encounter in A Corporate Machine. Would love to hear people's ideas, or examples of interesting folks you've worked with at your own jobs! #indiedev #conceptart #gamedev

A better preview image of the look development graphics in the video we just posted #godot #indegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Some progression on the look-development environment for A Corporate Machine. Lots of pipeline work done to make asset creation in #blender easier and exporting to #godot smoother #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

We had a fun time showing off A Corporate Machine at a #gamedev pub, hosted by @swedengamearena.bsky.social. It’s an uncontrolled environment, and getting lots of hands on it when it’s early and rough really lets you see what the biggest hurdles are for players to get in to the loop. #Indeigame

We had a productive week. Working on making the game economy more fun, profiled our look-development on an iPhone 13 mini, and it runs … sort of okay.

We made a mess of the demo level 🧹 #screenshotsaturday #godot #indiegame #gamedev

Listen. There’s a lot of discourse happening right now. But never forget the core truth of our craft: we’re all just weird little guys making weird little guys.

And it imports without a hitch into my LookDev scene in Godot. #blender #godot #gamedev #indiegame #acorporatemachine

Last week I started work on a template rig as part look development and preprod for our game A Corporate Machine. Got stuck trying to get the mouth as easy to pose as I was imagining it. After a weekend of scratching that itch I think I got it where it should be #blender #godot #gamedev #indiegame

We tested without it for a while... but the throw action is back 🤖 💥 Use it to optimise your work, get out of boring tasks, or just chuck anything you can get your metal paws on really! #indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #acorporatemachine #godot

One benefit of working together with a holiday-nut is that I automatically get theme-updates for free

An image of a GitHub comment congratulating a user on their first merged contribution to the Godot engine

Thanks to our tireless programmer we’re now official contributors to the Godot engine 🎉 Free and Open Source is what all the cool kids are doing, right? #godot #indiegame #gamedev #foss

Hi, Martin, I’m the 3d-artist in question. Can’t really get you a RenderDoc capture since I’m on a Mac. Currently profiling with what’s in Godot, and woefully it won’t give me GPU numbers for Metal 😢
Biggest thing I’ve done here is baking all material settings into vertex data and baking lights.

A room rendered in Blender (top) and Godot (bottom), split to show identical lighting and material properties.

This week: Continued work on the prototype, talks with potential partners, and making some serious progress on our Blender to Godot pipeline. Our 3d-artist is weirdly proud to let you know that the Godot-shot is only three draw calls 🤷 #gamedev #indiegame #blender #godot #screenshotsaturday

Okay, the quest is still janky and cobbled together, but our little vacuum can now torch their bloodsucking supervisor for a gold keycard in the prototype 🤖🧠🧛🔥 #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #godot

Can we trust you with the precious china? Good Bot or Bad Bot, the choice is yours. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #wackywipstuff #acorporatemachine

A mock up screenshot of the game A corporate Machine inside a frame promoting the even Sweden Game Conference on October 23-24 2025

This coming Thursday we're heading to Skövde with @swedengamearena.bsky.social to pitch A Corporate Machine in front of a live audience. Exciting and frightening in equal amounts! We'll even bring an incredibly rough playable to try out 😱
#swedengamearena #swedengameconference #indiedev #gamedev

Such a good dog! You can’t pet him just yet, but at least you can take him for a walk and give him a treat #indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #godot #acorporatemachine #prototype #wackywipstuff

Two cartoony 3d-characters eating cinnamon buns. The character to the left of the frame is looking sceptical while licking his bun, he is dressed in black and his teeth are pointy, like Nosferatu. The character to the right is laughing and holding a tray of buns. Their buns are shedding sugar on the floor and a cute robot vacuum cleaner is on its way to clean it up.

Since we’re only working part time on A Corporate Machine, we missed the chance to commemorate last weekend's important celebrations together! 😢 #gamedev #blender #indiegame #acorporatemachine