Michael Brough

celebration | Michael Brough Get more from Michael Brough on Patreon

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Q-UP on Steam Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...

We made a new game. It’s called Q-UP. It’s a coin flipping eSport. There’s a free demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...

I robot screenshot

Screenshot of Beyond Sunset

868-Hack

In my indie game “Beyond Sunset” the blue security programs are a reference to the Atari arcade game “I Robot”. The purple security programs are a reference to the strategy game 868-HACK.

Overland on Steam Take care of a group of travelers on a post-apocalyptic road-trip across the United States in this turn-based survival game.

6 years ago we unleashed OVERLAND, the hugest most polished most complex game I've ever worked on store.steampowered.com/app/355680/O... it's beautiful and weird and i'm still so proud of it!!

happy birthday overland, you were not easy to make but you turned out preettty pretty special <3

- Most excitingly, we can announce what we'll be doing next:

A Year of Michael Brough (@smestorp.bsky.social)
Premiering November 12
1 game a month for 12 months, starting with 868-HACK
plus other non-Brough episodes in between

We hope you'll join us!

moved out | Michael Brough Get more from Michael Brough on Patreon

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Smesport by Michael Brough lane-pushing futuresport

game - SMESPORT
smestorp.itch.io/smesport
(windows-only, four-player-only)

oh man! one of my baby teeth held on until i was ~37, what a trooper. i have an implant on that side now, saving up for the other side still..

teeth are weird!

rendering glitch - arrows and boxes and Xs and idk what

the thing with Chesterton’s fence is it’s never invoked ingenuously: it’s always someone trying to get us to play “let’s pretend we don’t know why this fence is here” because they know it would reflect poorly on them to outright admit that they like the fence

YouTube video by smestorp michael in the forest 043 - how to design a "cool twist

okay i think a consequence of that is posting fewer videos!

i lose the spontaneity. in the moment i do the best i can manage, and if i don't post immediately then that's no longer true - i could refine it. i won't, but i could, and that blocks me.

anyway, this one's public now
youtu.be/G6WROqyytsA

The rise of Whatever This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of eve...

down with Whatever eev.ee/blog/2025/07...

This is why building a portfolio of mobile apps feels like building a sandcastle right next to the shore.

868-HACK in the Kazakh region costs 868 tenge lol.
@smestorp.bsky.social is cooking!

title screen to my new pico8 game DINO SORT. logo is stylized so that the word DINO is like a creature with a crying eye where the O goes, and SORT is stylized with directional arrows conveying movement

screenshot featuring a couple of cute stegosaurs approaching a cycad. one is not close enough yet so they are crying. the species caption reads: STEGOSAURUS Avoids other stegosaurs. Always hungry for cycads.

screenshot showing some brachiosaurs in a herd. One is apart from the herd and is crying. species caption reads: BRACHIOSAURUS They do travel in herds.

screenshot showing a ton of dinosaurs, many of them crying. the species caption reads: COMPSOGNATHUS Try to avoid predators, or hide by cycad patches.

i know it's been a while but i'm happy to report it's that time again... v pleased to present:

DINO SORT adamatomic.itch.io/dino-sort

🦕 it has dinosaurs in it
😭 but they're s a d :( oh dear
🔀 SCOOT. THEM. AROUND. until HAPPY.
♾ 26 authored puzzles + infinite mode :o
📆 also daily challenge ?? y

ahh thanks. a reverse image search got me this one it’s referencing from a spiderman comic!
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

are there more of these? my search skills are failing me

with much credit to yann seznec for putting it together!

SOMETIMES

868-BACK trailer: UNIFIED Hey hey! I am still busily working on 868-BACK. I'm very happy with how it's coming along. It has grown! When I was crowdfunding it at t...

blog post - 868-BACK trailer: UNIFIED
mightyvision.blogspot.com/2025/05/868-...

Starting in 10 minutes! 🎉

IWW IU 520 (Railroad Workers) PRESENTS: TROLLEY PROBLEM SOLUTION “Slip the switch” by flipping it while the trolley’s front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment bringing the trolley to a safe halt. Thank a rail worker today!

unions: they get the job done

new 868-BACK trailer tomorrow evening! along with a bunch of other cool games :)

thinkygames.com/direct/

i have an cookbook from some particular indian faith that doesn't eat alliums. it doesn't mention that they have this belief, it never mentions onion or garlic at all, just incidentally every second recipe has hing.

(i dreamt i posted this so i really did it! you can make your dreams come true!)

trying to find a post from an old car-driving/weightlifting forum - they were asking for help transitioning from curls at the traffic lights to benchpresses on the highway. most of the answers were suggesting more gradual steps but there was one really interesting one.

from an ecological perspective, homo sapiens can be regarded as more-or-less a kind of large bird. it builds nests, makes music..

i have generally found that if a genre of music doesn’t work for me, it’s a problem with me not the music. learning the cultural background of the music helps to understand where it’s coming from.

if you are breathing terribly i would actually recommend some qi gong exercises, they’re quite good for it

no it’s not a movie