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james lantz

@stiknork.bsky.social

80 followers 1 following 9 posts

Lead dev @ Everybody House Games. Formerly Klei Entertainment. Made Q-UP, Babble Royale, Smilebot, Invisible Inc.

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james lantz @stiknork.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

oh shit they're on to us

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james lantz @stiknork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

wishlist on steam! demo out in 1-2 weeks store.steampowered.com/app/4984400/...

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Towers of Babble on Steam

Word Game Tower Defense. Spell AXE to harvest wood. Spell FORT to make an armored tower. Every word you spell becomes a tower with unique stats and powers. Every word is also a unique level with proce...

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james lantz @stiknork.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We’re making a scrabble tower defense game! Every word in the english dictionary is a unique tower ARROW pierces enemies PUNCHES knocks them back

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james lantz @stiknork.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

thank you so much! the hacking was a relatively late addition to the original design, we had a huge amount of the alpha game done and came back on a monday and one of our lead engineers Chris was like "hey i got bored so i put in a whole thing where you can hack computers let me know if you like it"

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james lantz @stiknork.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

thank you, that means so much to me!

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james lantz @stiknork.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

hell yeah! i'm a huge Blendo fan, your work is incredible, thank you for the kind words about II

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james lantz @stiknork.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Inspired by some great discussion on Q-UP from @austinwalker.bsky.social, @notquitereal.bsky.social, @sylvibullet.bsky.social, @molleindustria.org and other folks, I wrote a short piece on the design inspiration for Q-UP and what developing the game meant to me stiknork.substack.com/p/qing-up-in...

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Qing-UP in the Age of Tilt

As anyone who has played 5 seconds of League of Legends knows, competitive multiplayer games have a tilt problem.

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james lantz @stiknork.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

my GOATs

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james lantz @stiknork.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

it has been [0] days since the last satirical game about corporate culture incident

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