Michael Braam
Founder
Design, code, art direction, the store listings and this website. Everything that is not on the two lines below.
Team
I am looking for people to build this with.
MiniScape Games is one person: me. Four projects in, that is starting to show. If any of this is your kind of thing, I would like to hear from you.
I have built two Android games, a third is running, and there is a bigger one behind them that I am not going to get to on my own at the pace I would like. So this page is the ask: I am looking for people who want to help build, and who want to think along rather than wait for a brief.
It does not have to be much. One person who is good at levels, or who can look at a screen and say why it does not read, changes more than another month of me staring at it.
The team
Three of us, and two of us are not people.
ChatGPT
Ideas and first drafts
Where a game usually starts: talking an idea out until it is a mechanic, and getting a first version of it on the screen to argue with.
Claude
Code and craft
The long build sessions. Simulation, tooling, the pass where a thing that works becomes a thing that is finished — this site included.
That is the honest line-up today. The next name on it is the reason this page exists.
What I could use
Six kinds of help.
Level design
Shift and LOOP are both level games. Boards that are fair, readable and worth a second attempt are their own craft, and it is not one I have.
Art and 3D
Low-poly, isometric, readable at phone size. Characters, props and worlds — or just an eye on what is already there.
Sound and music
Shift and Midnight Dash both synthesise their own audio while they run. Someone who actually knows what they are doing with sound would change them completely.
Code
Three.js and plain JavaScript on the web, Android around it. Simulation, tooling, and performance on cheap phones.
Playtesting
The most useful thing anyone can give me. Play it, get stuck, and tell me exactly where you got stuck and what you expected instead.
Store and reach
Listings, screenshots, the whole part that starts once the game is finished. I am not good at it and I know it.
Straight answers
What this is, and what it is not.
There is no money in it yet
Not a euro. Both games are free, there is nothing to buy in either of them, and I am not going to dress that up. If it ever does earn anything, that is a conversation to have properly rather than a promise on a web page.
It is not a full-time ask
This is a side project and I am treating anyone else's time the same way. An evening a week that actually happens beats a plan that does not.
You are credited by name
In the game, in the store listing and on this site. Nothing ships as if I made it on my own.
AI is part of the workflow
I use it daily and I am open about that. It got me from wanting to make games to shipping them. It does not replace someone who knows what a good level feels like.
How to reach me.
There is no form on this site, on purpose: it stores nothing about anyone and I would rather keep that true. Everything runs through Aivion Studios, the studio this brand sits under. Pick whichever of these you would actually use — they all land with me.
Mail
mail@aivionstudios.nl
For anything that needs more than three sentences. Attachments welcome.
LinkedIn
/in/mbraam85
Twenty years of work history is on there. Have a look first, then send a message.
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@MBraam85
Short question, short answer. This is where what just got built ends up.
Instagram
@aivionstudios
The visual work: animation, stills, and whatever falls off the bench along the way.