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SIDE QUEST: GAMEDEV

By day I build backends for the web; in my spare time I make games. Most of them were born in game jams like Ludum Dare — and one made it all the way to a commercial release on Steam.

RELEASED

Don Duality key art: a waiter, the Don and a gangster in the restaurant

STEAM · Aug 2023 · Windows · 12 languages

Don Duality

A chaos-manager game with card mechanics. You run a restaurant by day and a mafia family by night: send gangsters on heists, collect debts and intimidate the police — then launder the money through your restaurant while hiring staff, expanding and handling random events. Launder too much and the police come for you.

card game · roguelite · management · pixel graphics

studio: Königsborgs · publishers: Ravenage Games, 2P Games

my role: developer, lead programmer

> get it on Steam ↗

Metacritic 75

Restaurant and mafia basement with the card hand

Gangsters in a shootout during a heist

Hiring waiters for the restaurant

GAME JAMS & PROTOTYPES

ls ./jams --sort=time # newest first

TrainOrdering cover

prototype · puzzle · GameMaker · Windows

TrainOrdering

You are the dispatcher: six tracks, a ten-minute shift, and a station you have to finish building while the trains keep coming.

> download ↗

Echoes cover

ArtGameJam 2026 · Windows

Echoes

A quiet story about a grandfather doing everyday chores in the yard and gathering memories of a loved one. Mistakes wound the memories, so play with care.

> download ↗

Save my knees! cover

Ludum Dare 58 · team · GameMaker

Save my knees!

A beach bird backed the wrong crab at the races. Time the tide, grab shells and pay off the bookie before he comes for your kneecaps.

with Keys Presser, Artemy Zen, pixelsohei

> play ↗

GET AWAY FROM MY BREAD cover

GMTK Game Jam · team · action

GET AWAY FROM MY BREAD

A grumpy old mage defends his precious loaf from hordes of pigeons with a spinning wheel of spells.

my part: code · with Keys Presser, GDMage, pixelsohei, Artemy Zen

> play ↗

It's madness, my dudes! cover

Ludum Dare 57 · team · GameMaker

It's madness, my dudes!

Three frogs in a bathyscaphe dive to the ocean floor for an ancient artifact: smash blocks, open frog doors, fight the deep madness.

with Keys Presser, KorbenDetka, pixelsohei, GDMage

> play ↗

Put down your roots! cover

prototype · strategy · space · GameMaker

Put down your roots!

Lay down pipelines to pump resources out of a planet's depths.

> play ↗

The Adventure of Seeker cover

adventure

The Adventure of Seeker

A quest to find a prince for the king's daughter, as The Great Seeker.

> play ↗

The RoboBox cover

Ludum Dare 54 · simulation

The RoboBox

A warehouse robot simulator.

> play ↗

Iron Harvest cover

Ludum Dare 52

Iron Harvest

Build robots, grow a harvest of iron flowers, save people.

> play ↗

Space Frontier cover

Ludum Dare 51 · management

Space Frontier

Keep a space station patched up while trying to settle conflicts between the space peoples on board.

> play ↗

Good Morning cover

platformer

Good Morning

A game about a sleeping cat and an annoying alarm clock.

> play ↗

Space Oddities cover

Ludum Dare 48 · compo · Defold / Lua

Space Oddities

Travel deeper into space to find a new home: manage food and the engine, clone minions to produce resources, and arrive with at least one alive.

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GraviTrouble cover

Ludum Dare 49 · platformer

GraviTrouble

A platformer where gravity keeps causing trouble.

> play ↗

Fly Swat cover

arcade

Fly Swat

A game about a fly swatter.

> play ↗

Monster Island cover

farming

Monster Island

Grow strange vegetables on the shrinking space of a crumbling island.

> play ↗

Only One Way cover

Ludum Dare 46 · platformer

Only One Way

A robot tries to carry a human baby safely to the goal.

> play ↗

Master of Dungeons cover

hackathon · defense

Master of Dungeons

Defend your dungeon from heroic knights who keep trying to make off with your treasure.

> play ↗

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