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The studio

Why I started MiniScape.

MiniScape Games is a small game studio in the Netherlands. For now that means one person, one game out on Google Play, two more in testing, and a plan that goes further than all of them.

A brand of Aivion Studios

Michael Braam holding a phone running Shift, in front of the MiniScape Games logo, with Nova from Midnight Dash beside him.
Michael Braam MiniScape Games

I have been a gamer for as long as I can remember, and for just as long I wanted to make games myself. What always stopped me was the distance between having an idea and having something that actually runs. With AI in the mix — ChatGPT and Claude Code — that distance got short enough to simply start.

My games are not original, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. They usually begin with something I played once and liked. But they get made my own along the way, and there ends up being more in them than what I started with.

The first ones are Android games: small, simple, made for the odd ten minutes. Wind down with Shift, or wind yourself right up with Midnight Dash. A few more will follow — partly to get to know all of this properly, partly because I think they can be good games.

What all of it is heading towards is a game of my own, for PC and tablet, which I will announce later this year. Everything before it is a step in that direction. But these Android games are not something I knock out on the way: I enjoy them, and the interesting part is building them further — bigger, better, more in them.

They will not be for everyone, and I know that. Some people will look at this and say: another vibe coder messing about. Fair enough. I am doing my best, I want to learn, and I want to get the most out of it in a short space of time.

Phone first
Portrait, one hand, short sessions. Designed for the bus, not the desk.
Free and clean
No ads, no in-app purchases, no analytics SDK riding along.
Finished
Released when it plays well, not when a roadmap says so.