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Splendid Failures @splendidfailures.bsky.social · 55m

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

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.

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Splendid Failures @splendidfailures.bsky.social · 4d

Messy humans leaving their chairs everywhere

#indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #acorporatemachine

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Splendid Failures @splendidfailures.bsky.social · 6d

Our brilliant programmer has revealed his other project. Spooky!

Orange Side Up @orangesideup.com · 6d

It has happened before.
It will happen again.
Unless the cycle is broken.

Spooky Dungeon is a Halloween-themed retro FPS dungeon crawler.
Coming October 2026.

Wishlist on Steam now! store.steampowered.com/app/3225290/...

#Halloween #IndieGame #SpookyDungeon

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Splendid Failures @splendidfailures.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Splendid Failures @splendidfailures.bsky.social · 7d

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 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.

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Splendid Failures @splendidfailures.bsky.social · 7d

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

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.

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Splendid Failures @splendidfailures.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you!
We very much enjoy the act of making games and value communicating directly with players through this format, so we don’t see much use for AI when producing assets or gameplay (and there are, of course, other issues and risks with the current tech we’d like to avoid).

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Splendid Failures @splendidfailures.bsky.social · 12d

The funky sounds for this little video were masterfully composed by @ratvaderr.bsky.social, the genius behind the awesome soundtrack for The Gunk and the wonderfully strange Ultros. Always such a joy to collaborate with.

Splendid Failures @splendidfailures.bsky.social · 13d

Hi, we’re Splendid Failures, a small indie game studio in Gothenburg, Sweden, working on our first game: A Corporate Machine.

Play as Sanitron TC-84, the world’s most overqualified cleaning robot, and explore life of the giant conglomerate Omega Global.

Follow along for updates on our progress!

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Splendid Failures @splendidfailures.bsky.social · 13d

Hi, we’re Splendid Failures, a small indie game studio in Gothenburg, Sweden, working on our first game: A Corporate Machine.

Play as Sanitron TC-84, the world’s most overqualified cleaning robot, and explore life of the giant conglomerate Omega Global.

Follow along for updates on our progress!

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