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creative game & app design

About subRobots

subRobots is a small indie game & app dev team creating unique gaming experiences with a focus on creative design and engaging gameplay. Based in Calgary (YYC), we develop games across multiple platforms with retro-inspired aesthetics and modern mechanics.

Our passion is crafting games that blend nostalgic elements with innovative ideas, creating experiences that resonate with players of all backgrounds.

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Game Projects

Burnt Horizon

Burnt Horizon

Burnt Horizon is a retro-inspired turn-based tank combat game for Playdate that blends classic artillery strategy with modern polish. Players customize tanks, adjust power and angle, manage wind and fuel, and battle through destructible terrain in tense, explosive rounds.

  • Customize human and AI opponents, plus tank styles and match settings.
  • Navigate dynamic terrain with wind, power, angle, and parachute mechanics.
  • Track progress with persistent profiles, stats, and leaderboard-style summaries.
  • Fast-paced artillery combat with classic arcade tank strategy and modern presentation.
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Neon Arena Online

Neon Arena Online

Neon Arena Online is a fast-paced browser-based (mobile as well) tank combat game with a modern multiplayer lobby experience.

  • Create or join private/public lobbies with lobby chat and player-ready controls.
  • Supports multiple match types:
      Normal deathmatch
      License to Kill
      Capture the Flag
      Battle Royale
      King of the Hill
      Juggernaut
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Asylum Of The Damned Game

Asylum Of The Damned

Asylum Of The Damned is a tense horror puzzle game set in a derelict asylum. Solve twisted object patterns to unlock rooms and escape before the order breaks and the asylum claims you. Built for Alberta Game Jam 2024 with the theme “Out of Order.”

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crankySheets

crankySheets

crankySheets is a CSV editor and calculator made for Playdate. Save standard CSV files, use SUM/AVG/MUL/DIV formulas with visual range selection, and adjust cell width with the crank for portable spreadsheet work.

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Full Metal Tanks Game

Full Metal Tanks (Abandoned for Neon Arena Online)

Currently being re-made. Multiplayer tank battle!

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Little Yellow Safe

Little Yellow Safe

Little Yellow Safe turns your Playdate into a crank-powered offline password manager with PIN protection, category-based entries, random password generation, and a lightweight encrypted vault for general account info.

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Pocket Pet Game

Pocket Pet

Pocket Pet turns your Playdate into a retro digital pet with diet-based creatures, unlimited leveling, jokes, and time-based feeding and aging. Save your progress and keep your pocket companion alive through classic care gameplay.

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Power Portal Game

Power Portal

Collect batteries to powerup the exit. Each level becomes more difficult as extra enemies get added! This was an entry for a game jam!

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Ultra Duck Hunt Game

Ultra Duck Hunt

Recently removed from Play Store as was developed for an older version of Android.

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Applications

Power Portal

Latest version of our puzzle platformer game.

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Pocket Pet

Digital pet for Play Date Handheld.

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Asylum Of The Damned

Horror pattern puzzle game.

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Contact Us

info@subrobots.com

Calgary, AB, Canada