Cactus



cactus (yes, intentionally uncapitalized), real name Jonatan Söderström, is a Swedish indie game developer known for his many short, quickly-produced games that frequently utilize Mind Screw. His official website is here and is also part of a band named Crystal Boys.

Several of the games cactus has produced have TV Tropes pages of their own. Among them are:


 * Burn the Trash
 * Clean Asia
 * Minubeat
 * Mondo Medicals
 * Mondo Agency
 * Norrland
 * Psychosomnium

cactus's body of work displays the following tropes:

 * Abandoned Info Page: The games page ends abruptly around 2008, even though cactus has produced many more games afterwards - but everything after Cactus Arcade can only be found on his blog.
 * Body Horror / Eyes Do Not Belong There
 * Bullet Hell: He loves this genre, it seems.
 * Dead Baby Comedy
 * Level Editor: BlockOn! combines this with Randomly Generated Levels--you provide the level layout, the program sets up the traps and enemies.
 * Ludicrous Gibs: For those games which have blood.
 * Mind Screw: A lot of the games.
 * Ninja: The protagonists of Shotgun Ninja, Saru Ga Daisuki, Ninja Flu.
 * No Plot, No Problem / Excuse Plot: For most games, the "plot" is the single paragraph on the download page.
 * Retraux: Most of his games are in a vintage, pixelated style.
 * Stylistic Suck: Ted's Wet Adventure. His other games sometimes show elements of that.
 * Violence Is Disturbing: Quite a few of his games (such as Dear Agent, Xoldiers) share the motif of a protagonist instilling mindless violence for violence's sake, or because they are Just Following Orders.
 * Vaporware: The third Mondo game.