tea makes games

(in)stabilitea

rooms collapse inwards upon themselves.
Broken, haunting, brilliant stuff.

a short surreal puzzle adventure. You backtrack through a dreamy, mysterious retro-pixelated office. Created for the Map Labs competition Back on Track in 4 days, second-best rated out of 19.

Don’t talk about it

A five-minute-long interactive short story. It is about something we don't talk about. Not talking about it you are not supposed to read this. Created for the Map Labs competition Companion Piece 2.

Empteaness

Shadows settle on the place that you left
Our minds are troubled by the emptiness

An interactive short about moving out, inspired by the song Youth. Created for the Map Labs Competition TUNE in 2 days, 3rd place out of 28.

Brain Activitea

the world will repeat itself over the blank spaces [...]
Shards of colour paint themselves upon the void

An (audio) visual experiment. Created for the Map Labs competition Eye Candy.

do NOT touch a moving chair

If you're not careful and you noclip out of reality in the wrong areas, you'll end up in the Backrooms. So don't touch glitching objects!

The backrooms using Portal 1s empty offices. Very liminal space, much Kenopsia

Redolence

this map has you truly face the reality of elevator travel in the modern age

Created for the Map Labs Competition ElevatorVille 2 in 2 days.

Tune In Tonight

A Performance of Noveltea by the talented, virtuous Pianist and Artist Jakob Arctoitea. Created for the Map Labs Competition TUNE in 2 days (in the same timespan as Empteaness).

In Memory of Humanitea

nailed the "condescending alien asshole" vibe

A satirical exhibition about the extinct homo sapiens. Made a lot of people upset (sorry). I have since replaced my climate-anxiety-induced edgy misantrophy with class conciousness (and you should too). Created for the Map Labs competition Eye Candy.

Thanatos

A short appendix to Don’t talk about it.

Made in ~16h together with Matt Hustead.

what we left behind

Alone in strange architecture. A short walking simulator playing with aspect ratio. Created for the Map Labs competition CromulentVille 2.

twisted_gravitea_

This level sends players on a stroll across the floors, walls, ceilings, and in-betweens of this abstract, Portal-like course.

Created for the Map Labs Competition Blockout in 3 days, 2nd place out of 13.

Diversitea

You just moved in, get to furnishing. An interactive short about moving in. Featuring lots of cool jazz music by Thomas Brach and Nils Wogram. Created for the Map Labs Competition 1,000,000,000 Units.

Thirstea

An abstract brutalist platformer with lots of blades. Created for the Map Labs competition Blade in a single day.

What is a game? - An essay

An interactive essay analyzing the concept of a video game. It starts with nothing and gradually adds video game aspects until you could call it a game.

Shelter

Enter a world of floating, confusing and broken dreams. An atmospheric puzzle adventure.

Stuck in the Broom Closet

I can't get out

Portal 2: Wake Up

Pretty good, fun to play.

A Portal 2 mod that puts you in the shoes of a new test subject named Suki. The mod works with the testing elements from Portal 2 and has some puzzles in new settings. It is about half an hour long and was created together with Ni, our first proper modding experience.

Sutsuru

A small 3D simulation of an office. You can walk around and discover hidden treats. Created together with Ni, first time we dipped our toes in 3d game development.