Doomlaser is an independent studio building videogames, interactive software, and experimental creative infrastructure.

Plainly, we build tools and systems designed to support long-arc, human-authored creative artifacts.

The studio’s work spans indie releases, commercial titles, and research-driven projects, with roots at Tapulous, Niantic, and Apple.

Across all of it runs a consistent focus on systems, judgment, and the conditions under which creative work actually holds together over time.

We began with small, focused projects like Kernel Panic Screen Saver, Friend Photos (a Facebook screen saver), and Mac system tools like Cursorcerer.

The studio started as a solo effort by Mark Johns, and expanded when Kevin Coulton joined. Together, we created Space Barnacle, Doomlaser’s first fully original game, developed for the TIGSource B-Game contest.

Since then, Doomlaser has stayed intentionally small, hands-on, and oriented toward experimentation at the edges of games and tools, including recent exploration of neural-network-driven workflows for game systems and creative software.

Selected work

• Hot Throttle (Adult Swim, with the venerable Cactus)
• Space Barnacle (with Kevin Coulton)
• The Hunger Games: Girl on Fire (iOS) (Lionsgate)
• Das Cube (with Alec Holowka and Danny B)
• Standard Bits, Owl Country, and Shit Game

Experimental augmented-reality and future-facing technology work for Niantic (of Pokémon Go fame).

Co-wrote the hit iOS game Tap Tap Revenge and its spinoffs at Disney-owned Tapulous (along with this charming man).

Interned at Apple developing software for clickwheel iPod games, and appeared as a character in Apple’s Texas Hold’em.

Mac system tools including Cursorcerer.

If you’d like to reach out directly, you can do so at

killradius@doomlaser.com

Videos

Media

• Killscreen – How do you bring the magic of Spelunky to 3D architecture?
• Indiegames.com – Interview: Mark Johns (Space Barnacle, Rotrix)
• FingerGaming – Interview on Tap Tap Revenge / Tap Tap Dance
• Kotaku — Tap Tap Transforms from iGame Into iMusic Platform
• Arte TV (France) — Hot Throttle at Babycastles, NYC (Video)
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications: Best Hack award winner – NCSA

Links

Twitter,
GitHub,
Crunchbase,
YouTube,
Giphy,
Tumblr,
SoundCloud,
AngelList,
ArtStation,
Instagram,
MobyGames

Contact

killradius@doomlaser.com