Splendid Failures

We're currently focusing on finalising a slew of in-game assets to populate the Omega Corporation's offices in our game A Corporate Machine #gamedev #indiegame #blender #godot #screenshotsaturday

In our game A Corporate Machine,

there's plenty of items to be diligently

experimented with #indiegame

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#cuterobot 🔥

None can question Omega Global's dedication to the environment, not with such an efficient incenerator installed!
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#corporatehumor #cuterobot #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!
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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

We’re experimenting with different ways for our little vacuum cleaner robot to interact with the office workers. Unionize today for table tennis breaks!
#gamedev #indiegame #godot #screenshotsaturday #officelife

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

This is some of the most succinct takes we’ve ever read! Everything here aligns 💯 with our experience, and it is definitely how we’ll try to run our own studio.

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

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

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

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

Thank you 🙏

A toony 3D render of a game view of the game A Corporate Machine, featuring a cute robot vacuum cleaner vacuuming dirt in an office. An NPC is looking at it.

This is the #blender render we’re working on matching in #godot
Fun technical fact: it’s mostly done with vertex colours in a single shader; even the roughness and metallic is set by storing values in the UV.

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

Yes, please!

Not yet, but you can feed him.

It's really lovely to see others pick up on the meta-narrative. Human lives in the workforce is a really big part of what the game is about

Thanks for the feedback. The game is called A Corporate Machine. Right now we're building on the demo and testing it locally. We're aiming to have the demo up early next year, and we'll definitely let everyone know once we've got a proper steam page and it's available to try.

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

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

Our 3D artist has been busy making progress on the look and feel of the human NPCs that will inhabit the corporate office you’ll be cleaning in #acorporatemachine

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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

Goodbye pumpkins, hello peppermint! Getting into the holiday spirit and cooking up lots of fun stuff for our game. #gamedev #indiegame #godot #blender #acorporatemachine

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

Except for the lightmaps using UV2

Zero textures! We bake the PBR-material values into the UV channel and use vertex colors and weighted normals, so all materials are vertex based.