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Mischief and Mayhem Studios
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Official home of Mischief & Mayhem Studios. Currently developing an update to Ark Defender

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This week we are announcing a new project. Sort of. We've been porting our game #ArkDefender from #Unity to #Godot. And once we reach parity, we’ll be adding stuff for a Waiting for Laouylik Update!
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While we aim to redo as little as needed for the port, some tasks are still time sinks. Recreating prefabs often involves lots of copying values from #Unity to #Godot.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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The porting process of #ArkDefender has gone smoother than expected, and a big help on that front is the wrappers we made for #Godot nodes that implement #Unity function calls to allow more code reuse.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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This week's Ark Defender short is on The Doomsday Machine!
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Ark Defender Boss Spotlight: Doomsday Machine
While automated and not currently under direct control, the superweapon was created by one of the factions. As heavily suggested by its color scheme. Namely, the Hellspawn before they fell on hard times. At the time it was probably a scout ship or something.
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January 13, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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This week we are announcing a new project. Sort of. We've been porting our game #ArkDefender from #Unity to #Godot. And once we reach parity, we’ll be adding stuff for a Waiting for Laouylik Update!
#indiedev #gamedesign #indiegame #IndieGameDev #2dgame #screenshotsaturday
January 10, 2026 at 6:28 AM
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One of our initial inspirations was the game I Was an Atomic mutant. Obviously pretty different in gameplay (although early Doomed Stars builds were closer to a 2D version).
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January 8, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Unlike our previous games, Doomed Stars was made in the Godot engine which had its own added learning curves. I do like being able to edit multiple scenes at once though!
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January 7, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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And our 4th game is the recently(ish) updated Doomed Stars! Inspired by a couple of games where you got to be a monster destroying stuff.
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Doomed Stars Trailer 2
The Imperium of The Binary Stars meddled with things they should not have. Yet their tampering has freed THE GREAT ONE. Now The Great One shall consume those who freed it in glorious purpose. Now The…
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January 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Our 4th game is the recently(ish) updated Doomed Stars! Inspired by a couple of games where you got to be a monster destroying stuff.
#roguelike #indiedev #gamedesign #indiegames #indiegame #IndieGameDev #2dgame
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January 6, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Before the #SteamWinterSale ends, we have 4 #indiegames on sale! In Ark Defender defend from aliens, evil cults, & more; in They Dug Too Deep delve into hostile mines; defend a city by mixing towers in Tower Alchemy; or end a star empire as a space monster in Doomd Stars.
January 4, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Fun detail for They Dug Too Deep. Runes were made with a simple constructed language. A rune’s pieces loosely describe its effect (e.g. an element absorption rune has air, earth, & water bits).
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January 3, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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This weekend’s retrospective, the final boss encounter in They Dug Too Deep against an eldritch being has my favorite mechanic we came up with. But not spoiling it here.
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January 3, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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All our games are part of the #SteamWinterSale! In Doomed Stars you are The Great One. An eldritch being awoken and now crushing the stellar empire who freed it.
January 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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They Dug Too Deep, like Ark Defender, has an in browser demo playable on Itch.io!
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January 1, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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All our games are part of the #SteamWinterSale! In the turn-based Dwarven #Roguelike They Dug Too Deep, descend into infested mines to route the source of corruption!
January 1, 2026 at 3:25 PM
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Happy new year!
January 1, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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While They Dug Too Deep has lots of dwarven weapons, it is possible to do a run focusing on spells. Spells were originally just added on a whim as something to use mana for.
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December 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Unlike Tower Alchemy & Ark Defender, They Dug Too Deep didn’t start as a school project. We cycled back to fantasy from sci-fi, as you play a dwarf descending into infested mines.
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They Dug Too Deep Trailer
Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2462100/They_Dug_Too_Deep/ Itch.io Demo: https://mischief-and-mayhem-games.itch.io/they-dug-too-deep-demo The Dwarves have long mined the mountain…
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December 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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They Dug Too Deep is loosely inspired by an old game called Drainstorm!
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December 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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All our games are part of the #SteamWinterSale! In our #Roguelike #MissileCommand Ark Defender, see how long you can survive aboard the titular Ark as you defend against hostile aliens, eldritch cults, zombie outbreaks & more!
December 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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All our games are part of the #SteamWinterSale! In Tower Alchemy, mix & match basic towers to create new powerful combinations from repulsion fields & holy water to hurricane summoning & tar pits!
December 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Revisting past projects, The Demo of Ark Defender has a unique track for the end encounter that ended up not being used in the final game.
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December 27, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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One of our most iconic bosses (at least internally) from our previous game, Ark Defender, is the encounter with Laouylik, an eldritch being with giant eyes & tentacles.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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We have all our games on #SteamSale as part of the #SteamWinterSale! In Doomed Stars you are the Empire Ender! A great being devouring the foolish stellar empire who freed you.
December 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Ark Defender has both the demo & the original prototype playable in browser on Itch.io.
Demo: mischief-and-mayhem-games.itch.io/ark-defender...
Prototype: mischief-and-mayhem-games.itch.io/ark-defender...
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December 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM