Biomechanoid Repair Shop

Quantitative Slime Dynamics 10220 Jun 2026, 10:45 p.m.
In my previous post, I exposed you to the joy of using mathematics to create ropes of slime. But my need for slime was not sated by this. Slime comes in many forms: yes, ropes, but also oozing, dripping, splashing, spreading. Slime!

So there were three other kinds of slime that I wanted in the game, which I'll call oozes, droplets, and splashes.
Biomechanoid Shape Studies13 Jun 2026, 11:49 a.m.

Sketching out various shapes biomechanoids could have in the game, inspired by organic shapes like skulls, sea creatures, and more.
My adventures in slime11 May 2026, 8:19 a.m.
So I haven't done a dev blog post for a while because I'm unfortunately still sick with postviral fatigue. Things are happening but more slowly than planned, but I am very slowly getting better, so here's a post of what I've been up to the last few days.

I'm working on a variety of things for Biomechanoid Repair Shop, including improving the graphics and interactions. I did make a lovely/horrible mockup picture, but what will make the game really compelling is how it moves and interacts with the player.

Now, biomechanoids are a mixture of the mechanical and the organic. And organic means one thing: copious quantities of slime! Slime running down surfaces, pooling on the table, droplets of slime, and in particular, animated ropes of slime when you remove parts. I did a quick pixel animation study of this, which already works pretty well.

But it would be much nicer if this could be done procedurally, otherwise I'm going to have to hand-animate a lot of slime.
Sausage Casings22 Nov 2025, 7:41 p.m.
Slightly delayed post because I was sick for a week or so. On the plus side, if you're making a body horror game, all disease is just a form of research, right? Right?

Anyway, having done the very basic gameplay prototype of Biomechanoid Repair Shop, I next wanted to take a stab at dynamic lighting. The mockup has quite a lot of intense lighting, after all. I'm writing this game in the Godot engine, unlike previous projects which were in MonoGame and Java, and conveniently, Godot has a built-in 2D lighting system.

A specific thing I wanted to recreate is what I think of as the "sausage casing" look you can see in a lot of HR Giger airbrush paintings, where a translucent membrane is stretched over a more detailed structure. Of course this might not be possible with pixel art, but I wanted to give it a try.
A new game project!5 Nov 2025, 4:40 p.m.

So I've started working on a new game. It's called Biomechanoid Repair Shop, and it's basically Papers Please meets David Cronenberg. You run a small shop where you repair half-machine creatures.

Repairing biomechanoids is the core of the game - one arrives, you diagnose its ailments, and you fix it. Around this, there are the considerations of your shop: bills to pay, equipment and replacement parts, customers, and so on, as well as a larger plot that will eventually make itself known.

It's a cyberpunk/biopunk game set in a world that looks like the 80s idea of a dystopian near-future. There's hardly any computers, but there's ever more useful biomechanoid devices, from mundane air conditioning lungs to terrifying weapons. And you are one of those shopkeeper side characters in a cyberpunk story, shown in just a scene or two before being gruesomely killed off.

Of course, you don't want to be gruesomely killed off.