Jonatan Söderström

Jonatan "Cactus" Söderström

Söderström at the Game Developers Conference 2010
Occupation Game Designer
Website CactusSquid.com

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]

In 2008 his game Clean Asia! was nominated for both Excellence In Visual Arts and Excellence in Audio at the Independent Games Festival.[2] At GDC 2009, he delivered a talk called "The Four Hour Game Design", describing the methods he uses in producing his games.[3]

Games

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)[4]
  • Unholy Stage
  • Xoldiers
  • xWUNG

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jonatan Söderström.
  1. ↑ Stuart, Keith. "Interview: Cactus Games". The Guardian.
  2. ↑ "Road To The IGF: Clean Asia! Takes Aim At Innovation" from Gamasutra
  3. ↑ "The Four-Hour Game Design by Cactus" from the GDC 09 event list
  4. ↑ "IndieCade, Impressions of the Award Winners". Gamasutra. October 2009. Retrieved 2012-03-10.

External links

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