TILTEDLEM

One-person studio

I make games about the inside of things.

Tiltedlem is one person building small, dense games: design, code, art and sound. Right now that means Mainframe Escape, a twin-stick roguelite set inside an infected computer.

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Games

A circuit-board room in Mainframe Escape, with worms closing in on the player

In development · Alpha on itch.io

Mainframe Escape

A twin-stick roguelite inside a PC. You are a process escaping an infected machine, and heat is the thing that kills you.

  • Roguelite
  • Twin-stick
  • Extraction
  • PC
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About

I build everything myself, which keeps the games small and specific. I would rather ship one mechanic that nobody else has than five that everybody does.

Mainframe Escape came out of one question: what if the floor under you was a circuit board, and the thing keeping you alive was keeping the machine cool? Every system in it answers to that.

What I do

Design, engineering, art, sound and release. Godot 4 and GDScript, with Python for the tooling around it.

How I work

Small builds, played often. Systems that can be explained in one sentence. Nothing in the game that a player cannot see working.

Open to

Publishing conversations, playtesters, and people who want to write about or stream the game. Say hello.

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Watch it being made

Clips of the game as it comes together, and the occasional thing going badly wrong.

  • YouTube — devlogs and trailers
  • TikTok — clips
  • Twitch — building it live, and playing the games it came from
  • itch.io — builds you can play

Read the devlog

Longer posts on what I am building and why, and an email when there is something new to play.

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