Description
Mother Machine is a co-op action platformer where little gremlins with an affinity for mischief and chaos team up to explore colorful alien caves. Do the bidding of your loving mechanical Mother and playfully climb, jump, and platform through a physical world full of emergent surprises.
History
Mother Machine is a story of an unlikely mother and her creation. Abandoned long ago on a distant planet, an Artificial Intelligence was facing a problem: without a purpose, she needed to find a way to prevent her digital mind from breaking under the pressure of being forever alone. Her solution was to create a creature that she could take care of. True rascals, with an affinity for mischief and chaos, these little gremlins are bioengineered by their mother to withstand and survive a harsh alien environment. 3D Printed from organic filament by their godlike Mother Machine, these creatures are tasked to explore a mysterious alien planet’s cave network, brimming with biodiversity and peculiar life-forms. You are one of Mother Machines children. Evolve and customize your creature visually, but also with unique mutations. These special abilities will not only extend your gameplay options but also define your role in a group. Because you’re never alone, Mother Machine has many children.
Features
- Use your ability to seamlessly climb on walls and roofs and reimagine 2.5D platformer gameplay.
- Extend your active abilities with mutations and creatively overcome challenges.
- Join games at any time with easy drop-in multiplayer.
- Play with anyone, independent from their experience level or how long they have been playing the game.
- Equip your creature with a fart that heals, or protect your group with the powerful mega belch ability.
- Experience unique & personal moments created by physical, emergent gameplay.
- Endlessly replayable generative levels.
- Experience unique gameplay moments with your friends in a ~20 minutes run structure.
Videos
Trailer — YouTube
Announcement Teaser — YouTube
Jahara Jayde's playtesting — YouTube
Images
characters
Logo & Icon
About Maschinen-Mensch
- Boilerplate
- Maschinen-Mensch is an independent game studio founded in Berlin. Known for blending procedural storytelling with deep, systems-driven gameplay, the studio pushes the boundaries of traditional game genres through innovation and design.
- More information
- More information on Maschinen-Mensch, our logo & relevant media are available here.
Mother Machine Credits
- Johannes Kristmann
- Game Director,Creative Director,Level Designer,Writing
- Isaac Ashdown
- Technical Director,Writing
- Maryse Heilig
- Associate Art Director,Concept Artist
- Leonie Wolf
- Associate Art Director,Technical Animator
- Riad Djemili
- CEO
- Amaury Butaux
- Game Designer,UI Tech Artist
- Felix Szczesny
- Game Designer
- Andreas Suika
- Technical Designer
- Rafal Fedro
- UI Designer
- Katarina Pelc Czikorova
- UI Designer
- Margaret Ada Dax
- Programmer
- Rico Possienka
- Programmer
- Jira Duguid
- Technical Artist
- Florian Smolka
- VFX and Tech Artist
- Nathaniel Laurin
- 3D Environment Artist
- Helmut Ofori
- 3D Creature Artist
- Philip Feller
- Game Animator
- Jan Kärcher
- Concept Artist
- Carolina Romano Gache
- Game Artist
- Talita Rhein
- Producer
- Marie Vilain
- Producer
- Sindy Krinke
- Quality Assurance
- Christoph Plewe
- Business Operations Manager
- Silvia Gaetano
- Community and Marketing Management
- Alva Arnaez Estrada
- Marketing Manager
- Lynne Glaner
- Voice of Mother Machine
- Alexander Batsch
- Title Theme and Stingers
- Dennis Kogel
- Freelance Writing
- Syndrone - Lukas Meinardus
- Freelance Sound Design
- Stina Flodström
- Additional Art Direction
- Mascha Camino
- Additional Game Design
- Roxanne Brooke
- Additional Level Design
- Umar Afzal
- Additional 3D Environment Art
- Dom Giannone
- Additional Production
- Laura Brosi
- Additional VFX Art
- Milan Pingel
- Additional Business Operations
- Additional Contributors
- For full credits, see in-game