Mads Johansen
@pyjamads.bsky.social
Copenhagen based, previously co-founder of indie studio gltichnap, PhD in Game Design and AI, Working on AI Engine @ modl.ai
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hi, looking for game programming or related work. primarily experienced in unity dev and c++. been looking for work for two years now even outside games/tech and won’t have a place to stay soon. i’m in los angeles / US
my portfolio eslee.dev/portfolio/ | [email protected]
my portfolio eslee.dev/portfolio/ | [email protected]
Eslee / Portfolio
eslee.dev
October 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
hi, looking for game programming or related work. primarily experienced in unity dev and c++. been looking for work for two years now even outside games/tech and won’t have a place to stay soon. i’m in los angeles / US
my portfolio eslee.dev/portfolio/ | [email protected]
my portfolio eslee.dev/portfolio/ | [email protected]
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Prune, my bonsai puzzle game and love letter to trees, is finally out on Steam for its 10th anniversary!
store.steampowered.com/app/3903490/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3903490/...
Save 38% on Prune on Steam
Grow and shape your tree into the sunlight while avoiding the dangers of a hostile world. Bring life to a forgotten landscape and uncover a story hidden deep beneath the soil.
store.steampowered.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Prune, my bonsai puzzle game and love letter to trees, is finally out on Steam for its 10th anniversary!
store.steampowered.com/app/3903490/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3903490/...
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Every game is a goddamned miracle.
January 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Every game is a goddamned miracle.
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The wonderful @terrycavanaghgames.com, who you might know from Dicey Dungeons or VVVVVV, has released an anthology of his smaller works to preserve and update them. It includes stone cold classic Don't Look Back and one of 2024's best games, A Proper Cup of Tea store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/...
Terry's Other Games on Steam
Hi, I'm Terry Cavanagh! You might remember me from such videogames as Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon, and VVVVVV. Here are a few other things I've made over the years!
store.steampowered.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The wonderful @terrycavanaghgames.com, who you might know from Dicey Dungeons or VVVVVV, has released an anthology of his smaller works to preserve and update them. It includes stone cold classic Don't Look Back and one of 2024's best games, A Proper Cup of Tea store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/...
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Dreams on a Pillow - The Journey
launchgood.com/1948
launchgood.com/1948
December 25, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Dreams on a Pillow - The Journey
launchgood.com/1948
launchgood.com/1948
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6 years later, and here we are - our baby is on ✨Steam✨
Do us a solid and go 👉 WISHLIST 👈 (!!)
We need all the visibility we can get, and I promise to send all of the good karma your way 🥹💗
Do us a solid and go 👉 WISHLIST 👈 (!!)
We need all the visibility we can get, and I promise to send all of the good karma your way 🥹💗
🌟🎁 A holiday surprise for y'all 🎁🌟
"Forgotten" is now on Steam, and will be out in 2025!
Support your indie devs and go WISHLIST ✨✨✨
"Forgotten" is:
🟣 A short & emotional 1st person family drama
🟣 A story about fading memories and regret
🟣 A game where you can make coffee & water your plants🪴☕
"Forgotten" is now on Steam, and will be out in 2025!
Support your indie devs and go WISHLIST ✨✨✨
"Forgotten" is:
🟣 A short & emotional 1st person family drama
🟣 A story about fading memories and regret
🟣 A game where you can make coffee & water your plants🪴☕
Forgotten on Steam
A short & emotional 1st person exploration game about fading memories and letting go. Explore your new home, gather old photos, unpack your life. A family reacts to their changing roles in a story...
store.steampowered.com
December 21, 2024 at 7:52 PM
6 years later, and here we are - our baby is on ✨Steam✨
Do us a solid and go 👉 WISHLIST 👈 (!!)
We need all the visibility we can get, and I promise to send all of the good karma your way 🥹💗
Do us a solid and go 👉 WISHLIST 👈 (!!)
We need all the visibility we can get, and I promise to send all of the good karma your way 🥹💗
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You still have MINUTES to back this:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
868-BACK
The sequel to 868-HACK.
A cyberpunk roguelike adventure.
www.backerkit.com
December 21, 2024 at 7:37 PM
You still have MINUTES to back this:
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
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Sharing this thread again as March just keeps getting closer
With my PhD thesis deadline coming up I’m faced with what’s next. I have some projects lined up, but I’m going to be available for work from March 2025!
I’m looking for:
Game dev work- writing, narrative design, historical consultancy
Academic work- research, public history, post doc positions
I’m looking for:
Game dev work- writing, narrative design, historical consultancy
Academic work- research, public history, post doc positions
December 16, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Sharing this thread again as March just keeps getting closer
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There’s nothing quite like watching the snow gently settle outside in winter. Although this snow looks a little… different… somehow. I think Mads Johansen (@pyjamads.bsky.social) might have had something to do with this. Come behind today’s door to see: adventjs.itch.io/adventjs-2024
December 18, 2024 at 11:21 AM
There’s nothing quite like watching the snow gently settle outside in winter. Although this snow looks a little… different… somehow. I think Mads Johansen (@pyjamads.bsky.social) might have had something to do with this. Come behind today’s door to see: adventjs.itch.io/adventjs-2024
Today my contribution to @adventjs.itch.io opened up behind door #18: adventjs.itch.io/adventjs-2024
Advent.js 2024 by Advent.js, vividfax, ILL OMENS
Creative coding calendar
adventjs.itch.io
December 18, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Today my contribution to @adventjs.itch.io opened up behind door #18: adventjs.itch.io/adventjs-2024
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little exhausted by trying to keep up Doing A Crowdfunding, & looking forward to hiding in a cave and only emerging once this is DONE.
nevertheless.. you still have a week to determine how resplendent my cave will be! please back my game!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
nevertheless.. you still have a week to determine how resplendent my cave will be! please back my game!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
868-BACK
The sequel to 868-HACK.
A cyberpunk roguelike adventure.
www.backerkit.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:00 PM
little exhausted by trying to keep up Doing A Crowdfunding, & looking forward to hiding in a cave and only emerging once this is DONE.
nevertheless.. you still have a week to determine how resplendent my cave will be! please back my game!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
nevertheless.. you still have a week to determine how resplendent my cave will be! please back my game!
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...
Absolutely love Dubio, such clean design and it really takes you along on the exploration of the very elegant design space!!
· · · ··--==≡ ●
DUBIO - OUT NOW
● ≡==--·· · · ·
Our game of tiny puzzle parcours.
Developed by @ajkolenc.bsky.social and me.
Available on Steam, iOS and Android.
(Links in profile)
Have fun!
AJ and Richard
DUBIO - OUT NOW
● ≡==--·· · · ·
Our game of tiny puzzle parcours.
Developed by @ajkolenc.bsky.social and me.
Available on Steam, iOS and Android.
(Links in profile)
Have fun!
AJ and Richard
December 13, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Absolutely love Dubio, such clean design and it really takes you along on the exploration of the very elegant design space!!
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After 17 years of development, Caves of 1.0 is Out NOW!
Live and Drink.
Live and Drink.
December 5, 2024 at 8:17 PM
After 17 years of development, Caves of 1.0 is Out NOW!
Live and Drink.
Live and Drink.
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Launchgood, the funding platform for Dreams on a Pillow, has a challenge for today: for the projects that get the most backers (new or old) to make a donation, or those projects that raise the most amount of funding, they'll award up to $25,000 in extra funding. That's more than 10% of the goal.
✌🏼 We’ve hit 1/3 of our goal!🍉
To all our supporters, Heartfelt thanks ❤️
We ask for your generosity in the next 24 hours this Giving Tuesday as we compete to win $25,000
👉 Make another contribution, any amount helps!
👉 Share the campaign with friends & family.
launchgood.com/1948
To all our supporters, Heartfelt thanks ❤️
We ask for your generosity in the next 24 hours this Giving Tuesday as we compete to win $25,000
👉 Make another contribution, any amount helps!
👉 Share the campaign with friends & family.
launchgood.com/1948
Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood
A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land
launchgood.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:14 AM
Launchgood, the funding platform for Dreams on a Pillow, has a challenge for today: for the projects that get the most backers (new or old) to make a donation, or those projects that raise the most amount of funding, they'll award up to $25,000 in extra funding. That's more than 10% of the goal.
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❄️❄️ The 2024 Advent.js Calendar has begun! 29 little daily gifts of art, games, writing and more, made by wonderful artists and designers. ❄️❄️
Click here to find the calendar on @itch.io: adventjs.itch.io/adventjs-2024
Click here to find the calendar on @itch.io: adventjs.itch.io/adventjs-2024
Advent.js 2024 by Advent.js, vividfax, ILL OMENS
Creative coding calendar
adventjs.itch.io
December 1, 2024 at 7:59 PM
❄️❄️ The 2024 Advent.js Calendar has begun! 29 little daily gifts of art, games, writing and more, made by wonderful artists and designers. ❄️❄️
Click here to find the calendar on @itch.io: adventjs.itch.io/adventjs-2024
Click here to find the calendar on @itch.io: adventjs.itch.io/adventjs-2024
Sharing this Danish Podcast Advent calendar, because I like the media outlet that makes these, so if you're danish or if you like listening to the danish language (🤷), then this advent calendar might be for you: zetland.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Få fire velfortalte serier – kvit og frit
Zetland er en digital avis for nysgerrige mennesker, der ønsker at forstå den verden, de er en del af. Vi fortæller udelukkende om tidens vigtigste begivenheder og strømninger, og du kan læse såvel so...
zetland.us4.list-manage.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Sharing this Danish Podcast Advent calendar, because I like the media outlet that makes these, so if you're danish or if you like listening to the danish language (🤷), then this advent calendar might be for you: zetland.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?...
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So in the end I figured out... I wouldn't! And that I would just take the time to explain all that there is in there 😄
There you go: youtu.be/oA4vyGgj7ao?...
There you go: youtu.be/oA4vyGgj7ao?...
First Steps Project | Sample Overview
YouTube video by coherence
youtu.be
November 27, 2024 at 6:51 PM
So in the end I figured out... I wouldn't! And that I would just take the time to explain all that there is in there 😄
There you go: youtu.be/oA4vyGgj7ao?...
There you go: youtu.be/oA4vyGgj7ao?...
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The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide
Is OUT!!
youtu.be/g7488to6Jpc?...
Is OUT!!
youtu.be/g7488to6Jpc?...
The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide
YouTube video by Hippolyte 🪐
youtu.be
November 25, 2024 at 2:49 PM
The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide
Is OUT!!
youtu.be/g7488to6Jpc?...
Is OUT!!
youtu.be/g7488to6Jpc?...
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Started assistant teaching a university game design course for the first time since 2019.
Using Unity. So many idiosyncrasies have piled up since then it’s kind of wild to talk new people through it.
Here’s some…
Using Unity. So many idiosyncrasies have piled up since then it’s kind of wild to talk new people through it.
Here’s some…
November 25, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Started assistant teaching a university game design course for the first time since 2019.
Using Unity. So many idiosyncrasies have piled up since then it’s kind of wild to talk new people through it.
Here’s some…
Using Unity. So many idiosyncrasies have piled up since then it’s kind of wild to talk new people through it.
Here’s some…
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Been working day and night these last 5 months, listening to feedback and expanding #bulwark. Today sees a release so big ,it's basically a 1.0. It comes with a name change, cuz I'm that mental dev that loves tinkering with the name it seems ;) running with that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq0U...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq0U...
Bulwark Evolution | Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by Wired Productions
www.youtube.com
September 4, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Been working day and night these last 5 months, listening to feedback and expanding #bulwark. Today sees a release so big ,it's basically a 1.0. It comes with a name change, cuz I'm that mental dev that loves tinkering with the name it seems ;) running with that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq0U...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq0U...
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I've updated my 19 Years of Steam Games chart. We're close to seeing 100,000 titles on Steam.
November 22, 2024 at 4:04 PM
I've updated my 19 Years of Steam Games chart. We're close to seeing 100,000 titles on Steam.
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Made a starter pack with Game Designers that worked on games I loved playing: go.bsky.app/D4QViNs
Here's a thread highlighting them, their game(s) I loved, and why I appreciate them. 🧵
#gamedev #gamedesign #games #indiegames
Here's a thread highlighting them, their game(s) I loved, and why I appreciate them. 🧵
#gamedev #gamedesign #games #indiegames
November 21, 2024 at 2:19 AM
Made a starter pack with Game Designers that worked on games I loved playing: go.bsky.app/D4QViNs
Here's a thread highlighting them, their game(s) I loved, and why I appreciate them. 🧵
#gamedev #gamedesign #games #indiegames
Here's a thread highlighting them, their game(s) I loved, and why I appreciate them. 🧵
#gamedev #gamedesign #games #indiegames
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The video of my Next Level talk "How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game" is up!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRdI...
#archaeogaming #gamingthepast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRdI...
#archaeogaming #gamingthepast
How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game | Next Level 2024
YouTube video by King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:00 PM
The video of my Next Level talk "How to Archaeologically Record a Video Game" is up!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRdI...
#archaeogaming #gamingthepast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRdI...
#archaeogaming #gamingthepast