Splendid Failures

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Short games - Well crafted We’re a team of four experienced game developers in Gothenburg, Sweden. Currently working on our studio’s debut game: A Corporate Machine. Wishlist on Steam now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4664300/A_Corporate_Machine/

a video of Sanitron, our robot vacuum character, driving around in a weird room with yellow floors and red pillar. in the middle there's a humanoid with a weird ball head
a gameplay video from our game A Corporate Machine. it shows sanitron, a cute robot vacuum cleaner, cleaning a room
A cute robot vacuum cleaner game character playing dominoes with some red binders in an office before reordering them neatly on shelves
a video showing the robot vacuum main character of our game playing around in a retro arcade setting
A gameplay video from our game A Corporate Machine. It shows several scenes of a robot vacuum cleaning up in an office setting. The artstyle is cute and original
capsule art for the video game A Corporate Machine. A cute cleaning robot is in the foreground, holding up a trashbag. The image is dynamic, the robot is heading towards the viewer. The logo is above the robot. Behind the robot, a turned over trash can lies on the floor, spilling trash. An angry boss looking human is glaring at the robot, with two other office workers in the background as well
A motivational poster rendered in 3d, reading ”work hard! Nice job!”
A s3d modeled poster that reads ”A job well done is its own reward” with an asterisc adding ”salary based on manager review”
A turntable render of a stylised curling stone for in-game use.
A 3d rendered turntable view of a stylised succulent plant
A 360 turntable stylised 3d render of an in-game office chair
Finished in-game 3d assets for the Game A Corporate Machine. Office furniture lit and arranged inside of the game engine Godot
A 3d turntable render of a cartoony retro floppy disk
A 3d render turntable of a retro locking telephone with an antenna on it
A turntable 3d render of a cartoony computer keyboard.
A 360 turntable 3d render of an office plant. Thick green leaves sprouting from a red clay pot.
A video of a cute game character in the form of a robot vacuum cleaner, looking like an old clock radio, deposits a kettlebell into an incinerator. A text reads ”Kettle bell: will it burn?” The robot presses a button to activate the incinerator. When the burn is done the kettlebell glows white hot and a text reads ”NO BURN!”
Prototype gameplay in the game A Corporate Machine. A cute robot vacuum cleaner places a teacup inside an incinerator with a recycle icon on it. A text reads ”Tea Cup: Will it Burn..?” The robot presses a button and the incinerator closes and activates. When it opens the teacup is ash and a text reads ”Teacup: It Burn!” As the song Disco Inferno plays.
A 360 turntable view of a render of a cartoony robot vacuum cleaner.
A turntable 3d render of a stylised computer reminiscent of the original Macintosh with details from 90s PCs. A text reading ”A Corporate Machine” is written out above the computer.
An in game video of prototype gameplay for the indie game, A Corporate Machine, that is under development. A cute robot vacuum cleaner roams around an office and helps the employees take a break to play pingpong
A 3d render of two characters eating slices of pizza while a cure robot vacuum cleaner pulls a full sized pie along the floor, leaving a greasy trail behind. On a small table in the background there is a stack of pizza boxes and some party hats. A sign on the table reads: Q2 celebratory Pizza Party, 1 slice per employee" and the Q2 text is printed on a swappable card.
A 3d scene in the application Blender3D showing an armature for controlling a leg mesh. The rigged legs are doing squats.
concept art of two office workers. one "inexplicably cool accountant" and one "ambitious corp goon". The cool accountant has a beanie hat and hair infront of their face, making a cool hand gesture. The ambitious corp goon looks like a know it all bootlicker, with a blazer and slicked back hair
3D modelling of a Saint Lucy's crown for a cute robot vacuum cleaner. Exported to Godot.
A toony 3D render of a game view of the game A Corporate Machine, featuring a cute robot vacuum cleaner vacuuming dirt in an office. An NPC is looking at it.
Cover photo to the video in the quoted post. Polished game graphics depicting a cute robot vacuum roaming an office
Polished game graphics showing a cute robot vacuum cleaner roaming around in an office
A small, cute robot vacuum cleaner going around and cleaning messes in an office, demoing how dirt spawning works in the game A Corporate Machine
A gameplay montage of a robot vacuum tossing objects around an office, with on-screen text reading "Having tested without it for a while... throw action is back in."
The video shows a laptop and a computer monitor in the background, and on the screen are the Blender and Godot applications. In the foreground there's a Halloween themed coffee mug. Then a Christmas themed coffee mug is placed in front of the Halloween mug while the text "it's that time of the year!" appears above.
An image of a GitHub comment congratulating a user on their first merged contribution to the Godot engine
A room rendered in Blender (top) and Godot (bottom), split to show identical lighting and material properties.
A robot vacuum opens the blinds, exposing a vampire in a suit to sunlight in a humorous office scene.
A playful gameplay video of a robot vacuum cleaner first neatly loading cups into a dishwasher, labeled "Good Bot," then smashing the cups and vacuuming them up, labeled "Bad Bot."
Sunrise over a field in south west of Sweden. The fog hands heavy over the field.
A mock up screenshot of the game A corporate Machine inside a frame promoting the even Sweden Game Conference on October 23-24 2025
A video showing gameplay. A small robot vacuum cleaner is pulling a beanbag from one room to another, then pushing it about, squishing it, and leaving it next to a character doing yoga.
A card UI-element featuring a silver coloured icon of Blender’s monkey maskot Suzanne. Text beside the icon reading: Splendid Failures, Joined 3 years, 5 months ago
Snacks in jars and boxes, surrounded by stickers on a table
Two cartoony 3d-characters eating cinnamon buns. The character to the left of the frame is looking sceptical while licking his bun, he is dressed in black and his teeth are pointy, like Nosferatu. The character to the right is laughing and holding a tray of buns. Their buns are shedding sugar on the floor and a cute robot vacuum cleaner is on its way to clean it up.
A gameplay video of a cute vacuum robot dragging a chair and placing it at a desk in an office. A text reads: Beep-Boop Beep-Boop Messy Humans.
A screenshot from the prototype of the game A Corporate Machine. A rough model of a cute robot vacuum cleaner is dragging a box along a hallway in an office. A guard character blocked up by capsule shapes has the word crumple above his head-shape and his arm shapes are crossed as if angry. The image is titled with the word prototype.
A Polished cartoony render of an office hallway. A character in an orange beanie is putting a note in a slit in a box. A sign above reads "Suggestion Box. Your Opinions Matter! Ω" Another character in a skirt and a purple sweater is walking away down the hallway past a water cooler. The suggestion box has a pipe running from it to a cupboard on a slightly Lowe level. On that level a cute vacuum robot is hoovering up the shredded remains of other suggestion notes. The image is titled with the word Look-Dev.