Joakim Sandberg is a long-time developer out of Sweden who has developed various games in the past. He is now working with Bifrost Entertainment to finish Iconoclasts, a game that he's been working on for over five years.
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Iconoclasts is a Metroidvania game about a mechanic, Robin, who uses her wrench to fix various things for others. Unfortunately, it's illegal for her to wield a wrench or work on machinery, so there's various people out to stop her. Along the way she'll find allies, explore a vast world, and discover secrets about the world in which they all live.
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Mini Q&A
Answers provided by Joakim Sandberg, Developer and Designer
Why do you make games?
I wanted to make games because of all the entertainment they gave me through my childhood. They were my world. Since then, I've grown to love how it's a marrying of all the entertainment forms that came prior. It's a balance of storytelling, audio and visual, but adding into it interactivity. A video game is living mathematics, and that to me defines the identity of this artform.
Why should people play games by Joakim?
If they love action, bosses, strong colors and characters like I do, they should try them out. Also, if they share my love for a game not being afraid to be its systems and abstractions ahead of it being something approaching reality and logic, but still often having a narrative hook, they may like them even more.
What element of game design do you hold above all others?
Making a polished, highly kinetic experience. Any small detail can be gratifying to some side of your mind, not necessarily an action-platformer. If I don't make something that feels nice, even how a string of text flies onto the screen, I have to redo it until it pleases me.
Today's stories:
- At a Glance: Joakim Sandberg: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
- An Interview with Joakim Sandberg: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
- Iconoclasts Alpha Impressions: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
- Enter to Win an Amazon Gift Card: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
Day 32 | Joakim Sandberg
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
The characters looks pretty interesting. I definitely want to see where the story goes.
"I wanted to make games because of all the entertainment they gave me through my childhood." I wish I had the same ambition. But instead I'll sit down and try out your game.
Looks interesting, i might try this.
going to get this on my ps4 :3
I don't have a PS4 or Vita so I wouldn't be able to play this I don't think.