Oliver M. B. Nakken
@olivermbn.bsky.social
- The Director of JETRUNNER
- Tech Artist, Designer, & Writer.
- Gifted Amateur Baker
- Second Tenor
- Certified Goofy
- Tech Artist, Designer, & Writer.
- Gifted Amateur Baker
- Second Tenor
- Certified Goofy
Almost shit my pants reading the games list for the next Games Done Quick. That's my boy! That's my JETRUNNER!
Xyphles (Who is running the game) is an awesome speedrunner as well. I'm so excited for this.
gamesdonequick.com/games
Xyphles (Who is running the game) is an awesome speedrunner as well. I'm so excited for this.
gamesdonequick.com/games
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Almost shit my pants reading the games list for the next Games Done Quick. That's my boy! That's my JETRUNNER!
Xyphles (Who is running the game) is an awesome speedrunner as well. I'm so excited for this.
gamesdonequick.com/games
Xyphles (Who is running the game) is an awesome speedrunner as well. I'm so excited for this.
gamesdonequick.com/games
Shoutout to Silksong for scaring off every other game that was going to release this week, letting us hangout on the front page of Steam's Popular Upcoming all week.
I take back everything I said.
@teamcherry.bsky.social
I take back everything I said.
@teamcherry.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Shoutout to Silksong for scaring off every other game that was going to release this week, letting us hangout on the front page of Steam's Popular Upcoming all week.
I take back everything I said.
@teamcherry.bsky.social
I take back everything I said.
@teamcherry.bsky.social
The Knightling has so much going for it. So many fun mechanics, so much whimsy and joy. It has most of the ingredients needed to be one of those rare games I just plain love.
It's also littered with very annoying design decisions that I'm trying my best to stomach, but it's really getting to me.
It's also littered with very annoying design decisions that I'm trying my best to stomach, but it's really getting to me.
August 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Knightling has so much going for it. So many fun mechanics, so much whimsy and joy. It has most of the ingredients needed to be one of those rare games I just plain love.
It's also littered with very annoying design decisions that I'm trying my best to stomach, but it's really getting to me.
It's also littered with very annoying design decisions that I'm trying my best to stomach, but it's really getting to me.
What's your bigger "Monkey's Paw" moment? This is mine.
Never asking for a game to please release soon ever again.
Never asking for a game to please release soon ever again.
August 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
What's your bigger "Monkey's Paw" moment? This is mine.
Never asking for a game to please release soon ever again.
Never asking for a game to please release soon ever again.
Now that I've gotten every banana and fossile in Donkey Kong Bananza I'm finally qualified to review it.
Game's fun. Smashing thing is fun. I hope I never see these smahing mechanics ever again. Digging around looking for Bananas is just not as fun as searching for Moons in Odyssey.
Game's fun. Smashing thing is fun. I hope I never see these smahing mechanics ever again. Digging around looking for Bananas is just not as fun as searching for Moons in Odyssey.
August 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Now that I've gotten every banana and fossile in Donkey Kong Bananza I'm finally qualified to review it.
Game's fun. Smashing thing is fun. I hope I never see these smahing mechanics ever again. Digging around looking for Bananas is just not as fun as searching for Moons in Odyssey.
Game's fun. Smashing thing is fun. I hope I never see these smahing mechanics ever again. Digging around looking for Bananas is just not as fun as searching for Moons in Odyssey.
Tomorrow is a big day. It's one month until launch, and the end of summer vaccation. In other words: Hell is about to break loose.
Time to finish the video game.
See you all on the 4. of September.
Time to finish the video game.
See you all on the 4. of September.
August 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Tomorrow is a big day. It's one month until launch, and the end of summer vaccation. In other words: Hell is about to break loose.
Time to finish the video game.
See you all on the 4. of September.
Time to finish the video game.
See you all on the 4. of September.
Finally my new drawing tablet arrived after Adobe rendered my old drawing laptop useless by removing DX11 support.
Time to start some pre-production on an unannounced title 👀
Time to start some pre-production on an unannounced title 👀
July 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Finally my new drawing tablet arrived after Adobe rendered my old drawing laptop useless by removing DX11 support.
Time to start some pre-production on an unannounced title 👀
Time to start some pre-production on an unannounced title 👀
This is what they took from us
July 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is what they took from us
We've just finished turning JETRUNNER's most boring environment into a work of art.
The third world in JETRUNNER spans ten floors of a giant skyscraper. You climb higher with every level. Sick concept, but the levels themselves were just white pillars resting in water.
Solution? Parks everywhere.
The third world in JETRUNNER spans ten floors of a giant skyscraper. You climb higher with every level. Sick concept, but the levels themselves were just white pillars resting in water.
Solution? Parks everywhere.
July 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We've just finished turning JETRUNNER's most boring environment into a work of art.
The third world in JETRUNNER spans ten floors of a giant skyscraper. You climb higher with every level. Sick concept, but the levels themselves were just white pillars resting in water.
Solution? Parks everywhere.
The third world in JETRUNNER spans ten floors of a giant skyscraper. You climb higher with every level. Sick concept, but the levels themselves were just white pillars resting in water.
Solution? Parks everywhere.
You know what they say about hiring professionals to do your capsule art?
Yeah, people are not joking, it's just a good idea. Way better than just tossing stuff we have in engine together and hoping for the best.
Yeah, people are not joking, it's just a good idea. Way better than just tossing stuff we have in engine together and hoping for the best.
June 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
You know what they say about hiring professionals to do your capsule art?
Yeah, people are not joking, it's just a good idea. Way better than just tossing stuff we have in engine together and hoping for the best.
Yeah, people are not joking, it's just a good idea. Way better than just tossing stuff we have in engine together and hoping for the best.
The amount of reviews we have on the JETRUNNER demo with like 50+ hours of playtime blows my mind.
The demo is just 10% of the game!
The demo is just 10% of the game!
June 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The amount of reviews we have on the JETRUNNER demo with like 50+ hours of playtime blows my mind.
The demo is just 10% of the game!
The demo is just 10% of the game!
There's an entirely community driven $600 dollar bounty on running JETRUNNER and this is what people have to say about it.
JETRUNNER is better than money.
JETRUNNER is better than money.
June 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
There's an entirely community driven $600 dollar bounty on running JETRUNNER and this is what people have to say about it.
JETRUNNER is better than money.
JETRUNNER is better than money.
How is everyone's pride month going? It's going well, I hope.
Me personally, well I just accidentally committed a hate crime.
Whoops!
Me personally, well I just accidentally committed a hate crime.
Whoops!
June 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
How is everyone's pride month going? It's going well, I hope.
Me personally, well I just accidentally committed a hate crime.
Whoops!
Me personally, well I just accidentally committed a hate crime.
Whoops!
Replayed Journey the other day. First time in 10 years.
But this time, I journeyed alone.
My first playthrough was defined by comradery, and I thought the game would be naked without it. But when "alone" it becomes a new story about how you're never truly alone, because we are one with the world.
But this time, I journeyed alone.
My first playthrough was defined by comradery, and I thought the game would be naked without it. But when "alone" it becomes a new story about how you're never truly alone, because we are one with the world.
April 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Replayed Journey the other day. First time in 10 years.
But this time, I journeyed alone.
My first playthrough was defined by comradery, and I thought the game would be naked without it. But when "alone" it becomes a new story about how you're never truly alone, because we are one with the world.
But this time, I journeyed alone.
My first playthrough was defined by comradery, and I thought the game would be naked without it. But when "alone" it becomes a new story about how you're never truly alone, because we are one with the world.
Combat encounters in Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley be like
February 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Combat encounters in Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley be like
Me: "You should go play Indiana Jones and the Big Ring. Everyone is saying it's really, really good."
The inner me: "UFO 50's Party House still has two whole scenarios you haven't beaten yet."
The inner me: "UFO 50's Party House still has two whole scenarios you haven't beaten yet."
January 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Me: "You should go play Indiana Jones and the Big Ring. Everyone is saying it's really, really good."
The inner me: "UFO 50's Party House still has two whole scenarios you haven't beaten yet."
The inner me: "UFO 50's Party House still has two whole scenarios you haven't beaten yet."
Surely the Nintendo Switch Year in Review will redeem me, and prove how much of a spry young lad I am-
FUCK!
FUCK!
December 19, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Surely the Nintendo Switch Year in Review will redeem me, and prove how much of a spry young lad I am-
FUCK!
FUCK!
This is wrong!
It can't be!
I'm not old enough to be one of the guys whose favorite game of the year is a collection of 50 video games made in the style of 1980s home computer games!
I should be celebrating Astrobot like my the rest of my ever youthful peers!
I'm still in my 20s, damn it!
It can't be!
I'm not old enough to be one of the guys whose favorite game of the year is a collection of 50 video games made in the style of 1980s home computer games!
I should be celebrating Astrobot like my the rest of my ever youthful peers!
I'm still in my 20s, damn it!
December 19, 2024 at 7:31 PM
This is wrong!
It can't be!
I'm not old enough to be one of the guys whose favorite game of the year is a collection of 50 video games made in the style of 1980s home computer games!
I should be celebrating Astrobot like my the rest of my ever youthful peers!
I'm still in my 20s, damn it!
It can't be!
I'm not old enough to be one of the guys whose favorite game of the year is a collection of 50 video games made in the style of 1980s home computer games!
I should be celebrating Astrobot like my the rest of my ever youthful peers!
I'm still in my 20s, damn it!
> "I should probably play Balatro"
> I look up Balatro
> "I don't get it. It's just cards."
> A week passes
> "I should probably play Balatro"
I have been stuck in this loop for months now. Please send help.
> I look up Balatro
> "I don't get it. It's just cards."
> A week passes
> "I should probably play Balatro"
I have been stuck in this loop for months now. Please send help.
December 16, 2024 at 3:09 PM
> "I should probably play Balatro"
> I look up Balatro
> "I don't get it. It's just cards."
> A week passes
> "I should probably play Balatro"
I have been stuck in this loop for months now. Please send help.
> I look up Balatro
> "I don't get it. It's just cards."
> A week passes
> "I should probably play Balatro"
I have been stuck in this loop for months now. Please send help.
UFO 50 is the dumbest game I've ever played.
What do you mean there's 50 games in this game?
What do you mean they're all fun?
What do you mean some of them aren't fun?
What do you mean you put 50 games in one game, and sold it, and it takes 150 hours to finish CAUSE IT'S 50 GAMES.
WHY?
What do you mean there's 50 games in this game?
What do you mean they're all fun?
What do you mean some of them aren't fun?
What do you mean you put 50 games in one game, and sold it, and it takes 150 hours to finish CAUSE IT'S 50 GAMES.
WHY?
December 14, 2024 at 9:23 PM
UFO 50 is the dumbest game I've ever played.
What do you mean there's 50 games in this game?
What do you mean they're all fun?
What do you mean some of them aren't fun?
What do you mean you put 50 games in one game, and sold it, and it takes 150 hours to finish CAUSE IT'S 50 GAMES.
WHY?
What do you mean there's 50 games in this game?
What do you mean they're all fun?
What do you mean some of them aren't fun?
What do you mean you put 50 games in one game, and sold it, and it takes 150 hours to finish CAUSE IT'S 50 GAMES.
WHY?
At the end of the day, after all the bug fixing, and redesigning, and all the other hair loss worthy tomfoolery that comes with making a game.
At the end of all of it. This is why we do it.
This is everything to me.
At the end of all of it. This is why we do it.
This is everything to me.
December 11, 2024 at 10:44 PM
At the end of the day, after all the bug fixing, and redesigning, and all the other hair loss worthy tomfoolery that comes with making a game.
At the end of all of it. This is why we do it.
This is everything to me.
At the end of all of it. This is why we do it.
This is everything to me.
I've spent the entire day singing for the elderly and at the Christmas market and all I want to do now is to crash and burn like a smoldering mess. Impossible to salvage from the ash and charcoal that used to be my once youthful self.
December 8, 2024 at 7:06 PM
I've spent the entire day singing for the elderly and at the Christmas market and all I want to do now is to crash and burn like a smoldering mess. Impossible to salvage from the ash and charcoal that used to be my once youthful self.
I'm currently making some slight updates to JETRUNNER's capsule art based on feedback from the Marketing Department.
They didn't want any big changes, but working with the feedback makes me feel as if I'm localizing a Kirby game for American audiences.
They didn't want any big changes, but working with the feedback makes me feel as if I'm localizing a Kirby game for American audiences.
November 15, 2024 at 1:47 PM
I'm currently making some slight updates to JETRUNNER's capsule art based on feedback from the Marketing Department.
They didn't want any big changes, but working with the feedback makes me feel as if I'm localizing a Kirby game for American audiences.
They didn't want any big changes, but working with the feedback makes me feel as if I'm localizing a Kirby game for American audiences.
I have blundered. The first pic is pre-stylization. This is the proper picture.
November 13, 2024 at 9:08 AM
I have blundered. The first pic is pre-stylization. This is the proper picture.
I loved working on these shaders. Even though I had to do it during weekends when I had energy to spare.
Working on JETRUNNER has been one of the hardest and rewarding experiences of my life so far.
This wasn't super in depth, so If anyone wants me to go into specifics, just ask.
Working on JETRUNNER has been one of the hardest and rewarding experiences of my life so far.
This wasn't super in depth, so If anyone wants me to go into specifics, just ask.
November 12, 2024 at 8:56 PM
I loved working on these shaders. Even though I had to do it during weekends when I had energy to spare.
Working on JETRUNNER has been one of the hardest and rewarding experiences of my life so far.
This wasn't super in depth, so If anyone wants me to go into specifics, just ask.
Working on JETRUNNER has been one of the hardest and rewarding experiences of my life so far.
This wasn't super in depth, so If anyone wants me to go into specifics, just ask.