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Robert Olsén

@rawbert.bsky.social

I play all kinds of games. Occasionally make games. I try to be kind, respectful and optimistic. Game Designer & Co-Founder at Splendid Failures, working on "A Corporate Machine". Formerly Game Designer at Thunderful Games (and previously Image & Form).

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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

01.11.2025 20:43 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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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

11.10.2025 13:46 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Can we trust you with the precious china? Good Bot or Bad Bot, the choice is yours. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #wackywipstuff #acorporatemachine

25.10.2025 15:09 — 👍 35    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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So soft … So comfortable #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #godot #acorporatemachine

18.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Snacks in jars and boxes, surrounded by stickers on a table

Snacks in jars and boxes, surrounded by stickers on a table

We conducted our first live user tests this weekend. The entire team was on site. More important than a well prepared build, a good testing environment and knowing what sort of data you're after is of course what sort of snacks you offer. What snack do you like when playing?
#gamedev #indiegame

15.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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When working on the art-style for A Corporate Machine we’re keeping it separate from the prototype.
#GameDev #WorkInProgress #IndieGame #Blender #Godot #WackyWIPStuff

10.10.2025 17:03 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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.

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

09.10.2025 05:36 — 👍 14    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Haven't watched yet, but also pretty hype :)

03.10.2025 06:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
A Polished cartoony render of an office hallway. A character in an orange beanie is putting a note in a slit in a box. A sign above reads "Suggestion Box. Your Opinions Matter! Ω" Another character in a skirt and a purple sweater is walking away down the hallway past a water cooler. The suggestion box has a pipe running from it to a cupboard on a slightly Lowe level. On that level a cute vacuum robot is hoovering up the shredded remains of other suggestion notes. The image is titled with the word Look-Dev.

A Polished cartoony render of an office hallway. A character in an orange beanie is putting a note in a slit in a box. A sign above reads "Suggestion Box. Your Opinions Matter! Ω" Another character in a skirt and a purple sweater is walking away down the hallway past a water cooler. The suggestion box has a pipe running from it to a cupboard on a slightly Lowe level. On that level a cute vacuum robot is hoovering up the shredded remains of other suggestion notes. The image is titled with the word Look-Dev.

When developing the art-style for A Corporate Machine we’re keeping it out of the prototype. It gives us room to explore the look and feel in a smaller scope, and lets us find a solid pipeline before we go full hog with production. 1/3
#GameDev #WorkInProgress #IndieGame #Blender #Godot

01.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 26    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

Thank you for the shout-out, Kevin!

29.09.2025 10:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Finally showing off some of what we've been working on. Really excited for the future!

25.09.2025 14:33 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Been playing Hollow Knight to get ready for Silksong. Lovely game! Me and my soon to be two year old made some fan art. Lineart by me and colouring by him. #hollowknight #fanart @teamcherry.bsky.social

20.09.2025 05:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Awesome! Gotta catch em all!

31.05.2025 15:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hype! Lovely game! ❤️

31.05.2025 15:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My boy Knight Man! ❤️

29.05.2025 19:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wishing KAJ good luck tomorrow!!!!

#Eurovision
(Blocked in #GreasePencil #Blender)

16.05.2025 22:49 — 👍 31    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

FF9 has some beautiful moments. I esp love disc 1

12.05.2025 06:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That was so much fun to do. Even though I like riffing, working from a script was fun in it's own way.

25.04.2025 17:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Are they bees or are they wasps? Wasps are way more terrifying, while bees are kinda chill and nice.

12.04.2025 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I ate five pieces of candy and watched a movie yesterday. Still woke up with a hangover. Age hits hard

05.04.2025 12:48 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for playing!

26.03.2025 09:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Working on a game that is heavily "inspired" by the big corp experience. Unironic con for "Corpo XP" system where you would get XP when you perform actions that the corporation likes:

"Does not mesh completely with the reality of big corpo, where skilled and diligent workers seldom get promoted."

26.03.2025 08:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Prague, 23 November 1911
Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie,
Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say.
But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism!
I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

Prague, 23 November 1911 Highly esteemed Mrs. Curie, Do not laugh at me for writing you without having anything sensible to say. But I am so enraged by the base manner in which the public is presently daring to concern itself with you!? that I absolutely must give vent to this feeling. However, I am convinced that you consistently despise this rabble, whether it obsequiously lavishes respect on you or whether it attempts to satiate its lust for sensationalism! I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels. Anyone who does not number among these reptiles is certainly happy, now as before, that we have such personages among us as you, and Langevin(3) too, real people with whom one feels privileged to be in contact. If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom i

einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter:

(1) your haters are trash
(2) you’re a baller, a true queen
(3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️

27.06.2024 14:17 — 👍 9075    🔁 3221    💬 68    📌 144
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If you are SPECIFICALLY looking for the CURRENTLY second best Adventure, 3D platformer, Collectathon demo during the next fest then I got you covered!

(inspired by @zockrateslabs.bsky.social who's currently killing it on the charts)

25.02.2025 14:41 — 👍 78    🔁 18    💬 4    📌 0

A wonderful little game! Really cozy and just the right amount of challenging!

21.02.2025 13:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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i released a game! i've been working on this for the past few months.

it's a short, casual tile laying game where you can really get into the weeds, optimising for high scores.
price: free!
where: catnipped.itch.io/powertile
read more about it here: catnipped.bearblog.dev/powertile-pr...

21.02.2025 09:19 — 👍 19    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 2

Yesterday we watched "The Bad Guys", an animated heist movie about criminal anthropomorphic animals. The world was bizarre as it was inhabited mostly by humans but all the main characters were animals. Did not understand the "rules" of the world. Decent movie, poorly written female characters.

02.12.2024 12:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just watched the movie "Family Pack" (Loup-Garou), a French movie based on the Werewolf card game, and it was so much better than it had any right to be. Big recommend for a good movie time.

30.11.2024 22:26 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It occurred to me today when cleaning the appartment that an alternative career path could be shirtless cleaning service guy. Do you think there is a market for 40-ish year old men with body insecurity issues and low self-esteem in that line of work?

30.11.2024 10:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Showing promise, keep it up! Looking forward to playtesting it!

29.11.2024 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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