Thomas van den Berg creates games and game-like things with a small studio named ‘noio games’. I love working on code & art, and the magic that happens when they come together. This page is a combination blog and portfolio of some things I've done.

Get the code at https://github.com/noio/box-stacking-stability to to run your own experiment. Next post. I did some more experiments with boxes with compound colliders and a different method …

About Noio. Noio Games is a small studio led by Thomas van den Berg, creator of the Kingdom Series. For this game we’ve worked together with Amos Roddy (composer of the Kingdom Series), Elijah Cauley for level design, Tom Kitchen doing 3d modeling and texturing and additional art by @Franrekkk on twitter. Logo. Screenshots. High Resolution ...

Kingdom. This is the original Kingdom Flash game released in 2013. It’s still a lot of fun but we’ve since polished it and expanded this into a real game. Get the full game on Steam!

Get the code at https://github.com/noio/box-stacking-stability to to run your own experiment.

Pizza Possum. This last year, I built a small game with Friedemann.We set ourselves a tight schedule and were originally hoping to ship something within 6 months.

Kingdom for iOS. Dear players, I have been overwhelmed by all of your positive feedback and amazing reviews. So, I am going to bring this game to mobile devices, starting with iOS. I’m going to turn it into a real game and incorporate all of your feedback, but don’t worry: I promise to stay true to what makes it great.

Interesting email describing some of the ways console players are aided in their aiming.

Seed First Versions. This is a Flash game that I programmed over a long period in 2007. It started out as an experiment in using bitmapData objects to store graphics, in stead of leaving all the (slow) vector graphics on the screen.

Cloud Gardens Is Out Now! The game I’ve worked on for the past two years is out now on Steam!It grew out of the plant simulation that I salvaged from my previous project, Garbage Country.