Biomechanoid Repair Shop

David Stark / Zarkonnen

19 Aug 2025, 3:01 p.m.

Repair strange and mundane device-beasts in your carefully laid out workshop. Until things go wrong. A game inspired by HR Giger, David Cronenberg, and Blade Runner.

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Diagnose the malfunctions of biomechanical devices that people bring to your little repair shop.

Repair them with the tools you've carefully arranged in your workshop. Flesh and metal squelch and slip and pulse as you work.

Keep your mouth shut when the special customers come by. The ones with the deep pockets, disturbing devices, and veiled threats.

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My adventures in slime11 May 2026, 8:19 a.m.
So I haven't done a dev blog post for a while because I'm unfortunately still sick with postviral fatigue. Things are happening but more slowly than planned, but I am very slowly getting better, so here's a post of what I've been up to the last few days.

I'm working on a variety of things for Biomechanoid Repair Shop, including improving the graphics and interactions. I did make a lovely/horrible mockup picture, but what will make the game really compelling is how it moves and interacts with the player.

Now, biomechanoids are a mixture of the mechanical and the organic. And organic means one thing: copious quantities of slime! Slime running down surfaces, pooling on the table, droplets of slime, and in particular, animated ropes of slime when you remove parts. I did a quick pixel animation study of this, which already works pretty well.

But it would be much nicer if this could be done procedurally, otherwise I'm going to have to hand-animate a lot of slime.
Sausage Casings22 Nov 2025, 7:41 p.m.
Slightly delayed post because I was sick for a week or so. On the plus side, if you're making a body horror game, all disease is just a form of research, right? Right?

Anyway, having done the very basic gameplay prototype of Biomechanoid Repair Shop, I next wanted to take a stab at dynamic lighting. The mockup has quite a lot of intense lighting, after all. I'm writing this game in the Godot engine, unlike previous projects which were in MonoGame and Java, and conveniently, Godot has a built-in 2D lighting system.

A specific thing I wanted to recreate is what I think of as the "sausage casing" look you can see in a lot of HR Giger airbrush paintings, where a translucent membrane is stretched over a more detailed structure. Of course this might not be possible with pixel art, but I wanted to give it a try.
A new game project!5 Nov 2025, 4:40 p.m.

So I've started working on a new game. It's called Biomechanoid Repair Shop, and it's basically Papers Please meets David Cronenberg. You run a small shop where you repair half-machine creatures.

Repairing biomechanoids is the core of the game - one arrives, you diagnose its ailments, and you fix it. Around this, there are the considerations of your shop: bills to pay, equipment and replacement parts, customers, and so on, as well as a larger plot that will eventually make itself known.

It's a cyberpunk/biopunk game set in a world that looks like the 80s idea of a dystopian near-future. There's hardly any computers, but there's ever more useful biomechanoid devices, from mundane air conditioning lungs to terrifying weapons. And you are one of those shopkeeper side characters in a cyberpunk story, shown in just a scene or two before being gruesomely killed off.

Of course, you don't want to be gruesomely killed off.