Paul Chamberlain (Arkem)

@arkem.bsky.social

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Game developer, I do freelance tech work. I also do indie stuff, so watch this space! https://www.arkem.org (He/Him)

A picture of some of Birdblitz's comics (Trigger Complex) and Umamusume stickers that I bought at a comics market without knowing who Birdblitz was. Now I'm seeing American friends reposting their art all the time!
Close up of the umamusume stickers from up thread. Features Matikanefukukitaru, Maruzensky, Manhattan Cafe, Dream Journey, Rice Shower, Agnes Tachyon, Matikanetannhauser (Mambo), and Daitaku Helios
Some tourist information and yonkoma comics from the Japanese consulate's table at Perth Comics Art Festival 2026
A photo of the comic "The People U Find In Times Of Capitulation" by S. Majumdar, she describes it as her "Indian Fascism" comic
A collection of Hien Pham's comics including "Things I Only Draw When I'm Sad" and "A Bald Introvert Makes A Friend" the pile is stacked on top of each other due to the adult nature of the comics.
Photo of the first two chapters of Fairydoll a webcomic from Annalise promising fairy knights and yuri!
Photo of three issues of "Trigger Complex" a comic by birdblitz along with Umamusume stickers (Matikanefukukitaru, Maruzensky, Manhattan Cafe, Dream Journey, Rice Shower, Agnes Tachyon, Matikanetannhauser, Daitaku Helios) from the same table
A crowd shot of the Perth Comic Arts Festival market day held at the Western Australia State Library
A picture of the book "The Making of The Australian Constitution" by J.A. La Nauze It's considered one of the best (and most entertaining) books on Australian constitutional history
An excerpt from an invoice for my freelance work. The description field has an entry for "helping shit a video game", it was presumably a typo for "ship" but I got paid either way so didn't mind.
The poster sitting in their office holding a Gundam RX-78-2 plush toy that's surprisingly long!
Dark Souls II game screenshot with the text "Pee-Planned" over it as a banner. Made with the FromSoft image generator website.
Nine steam games: One Turn Kill, Cobalt Core, Super Video Golf, Final Profit, Long Live the Queen, Signalis, 1000xResist, Unbeatable
Life sized Gundam from Osaka World Expo
Clip from the British TV show UFO (1970) episode 1. A man on a video screen addresses a purple haired lady in the foreground "Good morning Gay, I think I might have some action for you"
A picture of a signpost at the end of the Busselton jetty. It points out that the viewer is 1.841km out into the Indian Ocean and roughly 19,000km away from New York.
Gold Ship from Umamusume in her evil tyrant form (SSR Speed support card)
A copy of the book "The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope" a collection of essays curated by Jon Ingold
A photo showing a framed picture of a tachikoma rendered in a blueprint style from the Ghost in the Shell exhibition in Tokyo
A screenshot of a steam review of "Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator" that reads: "I wonder if this strategy game about speculation and the financialization of everything is commenting on the real world somehow. I guess we'll never know because it's now time to SHORT THAT BABY!"
A screenshot of Char's iconic line to Garma just before his death (Mobile Suit Gundam) repurposed as a birthday greeting to Maddy
A screenshot from the opening of Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) showing the titular Gundam RX-78-2 standing in front of a pink and gold sky
Screenshot of Char from Char's Counterattack with the classic "Lalah Sune was a woman who may have become like a mother to me" line replaced with an awkward Australian slang version "LAZZAH WAS A SHEILA WHO COULDA BEEN MY MUM"
A screenshot from Spirit City: Lofi Sessions showing my avatar (a blue skinned bunny boy) playing a handheld game console on his bed next to a cute grey cat that also has a game console
Nightime shot of the life-size Gundam RX-78F00/E at the Osaka World Expo
A clip from the Gundam segment of Tokyo Night & Light showing a mobile suit with Zeon markings but without legs terrorizing space (probably a MSN-02 Zeong variant, maybe the MSN-X17 Zeong Type-MA)
A picture of Pacman being projected onto the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building as part of the Tokyo Night & Light show
Five robot piloting Corgis on the moon from the game "100ft Robot Golf" where they are part of a Evangelion parody storyline as well as a Voltron style combining robot parody.
Turn A Gundam screenshot of Sochie declaring "I'm Sochie, the adorable Kapool pilot!"
A colored sketch of the poster looking thoughtful with a circuitboard inspired background (by Julian "FeralRoyal")
A picture of a massive space colony impacting Sydney (Gundam's Operation British)
A screenshot of a probable bot replying to a Gundam speedrun stream announcement with "Gundam shows the importance of hard work and innovation, just like our economy needs. Let's focus on building Australia, not wasting time on progressive ideals. #AusPol #innovation"
An Albatross in Super Video Golf on Hole 1 of Moulin Plage (Course 8)
VALORANT (2020) game poster
A tape cassette box with a copy of the indie game "Purgatory Dungeoneer" inside
A US election map showing Chuchu from GWitch (Gundam) sweeping all states in the style of the Jeb Wins meme
A built Gundam gunpla kit: "The Gundam Base Limited RX-78-2 Gundam (The Gundam Base Color) Entry Grade"
A flight jacket themed for Gundam's Suletta Mercury
A shelf of rubber ducks with a sign that says "Please do not destroy"
A picture of me and No-Face from Spirited Away, taken at The World of Studio Ghibli exhibition in Singapore
A meme prompt image with the text "Tell us a true, once sentence story from your life that absolutely opens more questions than it answers and demands further context."
A Byte Breakers (platform fighter / battle royale) score screen showing that my team came in first place with a combined 9 kills (out of a 40 player lobby).
An end of match score sheet from Byte Breakers (a prototype Platform Fighter Battle Royale that's available for testing on steam) showing me (Arkem) winning even though I am famously bad at the game among the dev team!
A steam store purchase page for I Am Your Beast showing three options priced US$17.99, US$16.19, and US$15.29 for the same game with the latter two being bundles where I already own everything else in the bundle
C-47 Skytrain featuring Bugs Bunny "What's up Doc?" nose art
The same car instrument cluster as before but showing 79F instead of 127F (100 miles and 2 hours distant)
A picture of a car's instrument cluster showing an outside temperature of 127F (52C)
A younger Kycilia Zabi wearing a military uniform, riding a horse and brandishing a pistol. Page 42 from Volume 5 of Gundam: The Origin manga by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
A picture of the box art for "Challenge of the Five Realms" a CRPG published by Microplay in 1992 for PC
A screenshot from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex featuring a man using a "Jameson" type synthetic body that's roughly a meter tall and looks like a small box with four legs. The screenshot is annotated with "This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like."
A screenshot from Balatro where Jimbo the Joker asks "I'm literally a fool, what's your excuse?" after I lose the game by being 12 points short of the 16,500 goal because I played a single ace instead of a real poker hand.
Completed gunpla model of Chuchu's Demi Trainer from the Witch from Mercury.
A scene from Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) showing the crew of the White Base on an escape shuttle but with their faces clumsily replaced with an image of William Dafoe from Spider-Man (the "something of a scientist myself" meme)
Album cover of Weird Al Yankovic's "Running With Scissors"
"I'm something of a scientist, myself" meme from Spiderman but with the text "I'm something of a Newtype, myself" and a "Newtype flash" applied and the conversation attributed to Fraw Bow and Mirai rather than Peter Parker and Norman Osborne
A screenshot of Steam showing the achievement "Rule Breaker" from Balatro that only 0.8% of players have unlocked
the "Wolverine Remembers" meme but with Dozle Zabi remembering Garma Zabi from Mobile Suit Gundam 0079
A list of final attributes from a run of NetHack (1987), some notable entries are "You caused conflict", "You were warned", "You were disintegration-resistant" and "You survived".
A screenshot of the score screen from NetHack (1987) showing a successful ascension as an elf wizard with 4777254 points
A screenshot of the main menu of "I was a Teenage Exocolonist" showing the main teenage cast lounging in a pink field on an alien planet with a space ship in the background.