Jonatan Söderström
Jonatan Söderström | |
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_-_Game_Developers_Conference_2010.jpg) Söderström at the Game Developers Conference 2010 | |
| Born | 9 October 1985 |
| Occupation | Game designer |
| Years active | 2005-present |
Jonatan Söderström, also known by his internet pseudonym Cactus, is a Swedish video game developer best known as co-designer and programmer of Hotline Miami (2012) and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015). Prior to that, he developed over 40 small video games. All of them were created with Game Maker.[1] When asked about his game design style in an interview, Söderström replied "Variation can be good, but so can consistency. When I make games I try to keep them unified and to the point, so I don't drift off too far. It's also one of the reasons most of my games are so short, when I feel like I want to turn the game in a new direction I usually explore that new direction in a separate game instead".[2] This further explains Söderström's unusually high output of concentrated games, most of which were developed within a span of two years.
In 2008 his game Clean Asia! was nominated for both Excellence In Visual Arts and Excellence in Audio at the Independent Games Festival.[3] At GDC 2009, he delivered a talk called "The Four Hour Game Design", describing the methods he uses in producing his games.[4]
Games
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The games Söderström has created include:
- Ad Nauseam
- BlockOn!
- Burn The Trash
- Clean Asia!
- Decontrologic
- EVAC
- Fractal Fighters
- Fuck Space
- God Came To The Cave
- Hot Throttle
- Hotline Miami
- Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
- Illegal Communication
- Insect Invade 2
- Keyboard Drumset Fucking Werewolf
- KrebsWelte
- Krytza
- Life Is A Race!
- Minubeat
- Mondo Agency
- Mondo Medicals
- MSoids
- Ninja Flu
- Norrland
- Precision
- Strings
- Protoganda II
- Psychosomnium
- Retro
- Retro II
- Retro 4
- Saru Ga Daisuki
- Seizuredome
- Shotgun Ninja
- Space Fuck!
- Stallions In America
- Ted's Wet Adventure
- The Birthday
- The Design
- This Is Infinity
- Tuning (winner of the Sublime Experience award at IndieCade in 2009)[5]
- Unholy Stage
- Xoldiers
- xWUNG
References
- ^ Stuart, Keith. "Interview: Cactus Games". The Guardian.
- ^ Courtney, Timothy (5 March 2016). "Game Talk: Developer of Games Like Hotline Miami, Norrland, Clean Asia! & Mondo Medicals, Jonatan Cactus Soderstrom Interview with Timothy Courtney". timothycourtney.io. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ^ "Road To The IGF: Clean Asia! Takes Aim At Innovation" from Gamasutra
- ^ "The Four-Hour Game Design by Cactus" from the GDC 09 event list
- ^ "IndieCade, Impressions of the Award Winners". Gamasutra. October 2009. Retrieved 2012-03-10.
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