Peter Broqvist

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

So stay tuned for a bunch of more wacky WIP stuff in the future!

We’d love to know how other creatives approach iterating on complex projects like this. 3/3
#GameDev #WorkInProgress #IndieGame #Blender #Godot #WackyWIPStuff

A screenshot from the prototype of the game A Corporate Machine. A rough model of a cute robot vacuum cleaner is dragging a box along a hallway in an office. A guard character blocked up by capsule shapes has the word crumple above his head-shape and his arm shapes are crossed as if angry. The image is titled with the word prototype.

In the prototype, we want to be able to try lots of things. And if a play-test shows something we didn’t plan for (has that ever happened?!) we want to be able to change things quickly, not waste time polishing stuff that belongs in the bin. 2/3
#GameDev #WorkInProgress #IndieGame #Blender #Godot

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

So excited to share what we’ve been working on for the last half a year! Can’t wait to post more stuff we’re up to

We made this short video a few years ago that was SUPER useful for all sorts of pitching, and I'm excited to share it now.

As someone who sees hundred of pitches from the other side of this in my publisher life, I would love it if every dev made something like this.

Hope it's helpful to see!

"I did not prepare a speech because I did not even know we were nominated. But I am truly honored to accept this award on behalf of my amazing team. When I was first getting into this industry, I was a college student, unsure of whether or not to change my major. The original Life Is Strange was one of the games that made that decision for me, so it was a full circle moment and an honor for me to get to work on this game: bruises, bumps, and all. I would like to thank my wonderful narrative team. Felice Kuan: our phenomenal narrative director, and an even better woman. Our calm in the storm. Deandra Warrick: our lead writer, our rock, who deserves way more recognition and credit than she gets. Mallory Littleton: one of the most talented technical narrative..."

"...designers I know. Aysha Farah: lead writer, and one of the most beautiful, fearless, funniest people I know. Andy Auseon: senior writer and our support, constantly juggling way too many things. Elizabeth Ballou: my right-hand woman on all things narrative design. And Zipporah Smith and James Wright: my homies, my loves, my brainstorming partners and the ones who kept me sane throughout this whole process. I can't thank you all enough. And to all of you out there with narrative jobs: all of these amazing people were let go, including myself. Personally, I've been out of a job for an entire year. We are all talented, award-winning writers and you won't regret having us on your team. So please, hire us. Thank you and goodnight!"

In this case, I would like to break the cycle and the silence on my own erasure. Since the night of the GDC Awards, I often think about what I would have said if I had been given the opportunity to speak. I think it would have been something like this:

Reading your own writing, summed up:

Good summary of how any good argument for neoliberalism will always be erased by the end goal of it. Complete freedom in the market will inevitably lead to liberty for none.

a woman says i 'm happy to help in a yellow circle Alt: gif: Alexis Rose from Schitt's Creek saying "I'm happy too help."

Game writers! If you were laid off, @marykwrites.bsky.social @alexmakesstuffup.bsky.social & I want to help out with portfolio, sample, or resume reviews. Just respond to this post with a number between 1 & 1000 and we'll select a few folks for a review. For free, obv.

Mmhmm. Inte första gången jag knäckt ett revben genom litet spontan överansträngning. Rekommenderar det inte.

Oh yes, a weighted cover is a grand idea for a better night’s sleep right up until you snap a rib at the gym. Don’t like this added pressure on my stupid bird bones!

So I’ve started playing around with Godot this past 6 month and it’s so god damn freeing. Feels like it’s about the same place as Blender was at version 2.5 so really looking forward to where it’s heading these coming years

A rough annotated development sketch detailing aspects of the video game ICO.

A rough annotated development sketch detailing aspects of the video game ICO.

A rough annotated development sketch detailing aspects of the video game ICO.

A rough annotated development sketch detailing aspects of the video game ICO.

ICO development sketches 💙

Final take for the #boids ! Testing a flock of 16k boids, entirely computed in GPU. No more CPU boilerplate, thx to the precious help of Jason Knight (from X). The code is available at @thegodotbarn.com . #gamedev #godot #glsl