Mark Johns

@Doomlaser
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Game Developer & Artist, Designer, Software Compositions ■▧▲▴◂▵◥◉◈☞☶♫
GitHubhttps://github.com/doomlaser
Doomlaser Bloghttps://doomlaser.com/blog

In a 2015 radio interview I described AI inference as high-level algebra and argued that the hardest problems would be institutional, not technical.

https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/12/23/2242225/2015-radio-interview-frames-ai-as-high-level-algebra

That interview recently resurfaced on Slashdot, so I updated the Doomlaser about page to clarify the long-arc through-line behind the studio’s work.

#CreativeTools #AIandArt #CreativeInfrastructure #GameDev #FilmTech

Dream Factory is a narrative & performance system I’ve been building here at Doomlaser

Built for writing, editing, and performing scripts, with AI treated as a controllable instrument—not a black box.

Clip from GDC's Experimental Gameplay Workshop (2024)
#Screenwriting #AI #GameDev #Creativetoots

A modern wireframe style, inspired by Atari’s Tempest.

Video is first person. No guns (just arms), physics, and glowing geometry in cyberspace.

I wanted the wires to feel alive so I've updated the style: subtle screen-space gradients, depth, and motion, like stepping inside a vector display's glow.

Built solo. More experiments coming.

#IndieGame #GameDev #DigitalArt
#VideoArt #NewMediaArt #InteractiveArt
#ComputerGraphics #Wireframe #VectorArt #SciFiArt #ProceduralGeneration #RetroFuture

Today, we're sharing the OPENING CINEMATIC to our game SET IN ANCIENT EGYPT:

FORGOTTEN GODS OF MEN.

A Lovecraftian horror game set in the late 1920s.

Imagine you're a professor, driven by the loss of your wife, on a quest that leads you to an unimaginable discovery...
#gamedev #indiegame #art

We're working on an RPG for today's world. This is a video that speaks to culture as a concept, powered by our game's depth (?) and hidden media treasures—WAY OUT WEST!
#RPG #GameDev #culture

Speaking of Christmas🎄, a dedicated FUTURE BIKE 🏍️ player known as BoneDaddy64 finally crossed 300 seconds on our videogame today, exclaiming that's it's a Christmas 🎅 miracle!

This is hard! See for yourself—you can play in the browser! ⇛⇛⇛ doomlaser.itch.io/bike #browsergame #indiegame #freeware

PLAY Space Barnacle, our homage to 8-bit videogames and chiptunes.

You play as an alien son, marooned on an asteroid archipelago with your injured father. Do you have the strength to uncover the hideous secret at the heart of this place?

Download for PC: doomlaser.itch.io/spacebarnacle
#indiegame #gamedev #videogames

HERE IS SOME NEW FOOTAGE FROM 'GUN FLESH', OUR POST-AI SCI-FI ACTION ROGUELIKE.

This takes us to the wastelands of Planet Earth, amongst ancient ruins you find zombies, cybernetic floating skulls, and strange alien mutains, who you must KILL. #indiegame #gaming #gamedev

If you have a PC and like COOL GAMES, check out our game BRAINDEAD, YOUR MAJESTY. One button (Z) controls the environment, while the King's son walks obliviously 👑🫅 #indiegame #IndieGameDev
Loaded up YouTube.com and its top recommendation for me is a video of 10 hours of a black screen.