Struck with sudden inspiration sometime around 2020, I started the Sisyphean project of creating a role-playing game. Writing and drawing and scanning and editing. Six years later, I have the finished game in my hand: Cultists & Cubicles—A tabletop role-playing game about the horrors of working in the tech industry.

In the game, you play as a developer, tester, designer or other tech worker who has to confront the nefarious forces that are taking over your workplace. It’s corporate horror with elements of humor. The rules are simple, but the game is hard to survive.

The text and illustrations were created by me. Most drawings are done in ink except the illustrations for personas, which were drawn digitally on my tablet.

During the writing process, I’ve had many valuable discussions with Fredrik, Tobias, Markus, Daniel, Pontus (who also did the excellend graphic design). I also received invaluable feedback from many others along the way.

I’m happy with how the game turned out. I think it manages to balance the old school role-playing aesthetics with something contemporary. I’m especially proud of the metaphysics of the game world, but that’s for Game Managers’ eyes only. Cultists & Cubicles is probably especially enjoyable if you work in tech, but that is not a requirement.

If all this sounds fun, have a look at cultistsandcubicles.com where you can also find info on where it’s possible buy the game. The digital edition of the game book is available at RPG Trader and DrivethruRPG.

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Early 2026, I ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to finance the printing.

Here is a marketing video for the game:
https://youtu.be/_u0j96Y_qaI

I was interviewed about Cultists & Cubicles on the Swedish RPG podcast Finlir:

The Swedish game site SpelKult has a review here:
https://spelkult.se/cultists-cubicles-jobbigt-pa-jobbet/

I also compiled a playlist with a suitable soundtrack:

This comic was published in the international comic art magazine C’est Bon Anthology volume 65. The theme of that issue was kolaż (collage).

”Prophetic Visions” is made up of samples from public domain att and text by John of Patmos, Michel de Nostredame, H P Lovecraft, Jan van Goyen, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Also, the IPCC is quoted.

One source of inspiration is the album Endtroducing….. by DJ Shadow – the first album entirely made up of samples.

Ever since reading Isaac Asimov’s short story collection I, Robot at a young age, I have been fascinated with robots and artificial intelligence. Over time, my interest has moved away from the physical aspects of mechanical humans to more philosophical questions around consciousness and sentience. What makes humans perceive that they are conscious? Can machines be conscious?

My musings took shape as a short story, but I never seemed to be done with it. After the LaMBDA incident earlier this year I felt that I had to finish the story, so I finally did. It’s free for all to read online:

Terminate Process (https://substrat.se/terminate-process/)

For a limited time, I am selling a work of art at Seriemarknad.se, an online market for small press comics that is active during a few comic book related events this fall.

For the modest price of 1000 SEK (approximately 115 USD), an interested comic art connoisseur can buy a copy of a 1360 × 1973 pixel digital file that is a facsimile of my one-page comic Originalserie (Original Comic). The comic has been published in issue number 2 of the Swedish digital comics anthology babian.se.

The focus of the comic is the absurdity of seeking to own original comic art, when comics is the ultimate artform for mass production. This obsession with property and ownership is praticularly relevant in these days of NFT hysteria. Because of this, I am very happy to be able to sell it in a highly fungible form.

I have no objections to artists getting a new source of income, and I assume they laugh all the way to the cryptobank when rich people buy non fungible tokens in order to ”own” art that is supposedly unique. The problem is the massive negative environmental effects caused by blockchain technology such as NTF. The climate crisis is too grave to allow wealthy art collectors and speculators to indulge in these vanity projects.

Jag kunde inte hålla mig från att göra ett till omslag till min novell Rasmus Carlssons redogörelse. Det tredje omslaget är inspirerat av pocketböcker från 1960- och 1970-talen, kanske främst W & W-serien.

Många av de snyggaste av de omslagen är illustrerade av Per Åhlin, men jag försökte mig inte på att emulera hans teckningsstil. Det hade inte slutat bra. Den som vill se många exempel på Åhlins omslag kan titta på den här fina samlingen.

Alla tre versionerna av Rasmus Carlssons redogörelse går att ladda ner gratis.

Några exempel på inspirationskällor:

Nu går det bra att ladda ner min skräck-novell Rasmus Carlssons redogörelse alldeles gratis. Välj mellan två olika omslag.

My Tim Burton-inspired goth drawing received an honorable mention in the Trinquette drawing challenge this April.

Reference: Faestock

This is my drawing of Sun Wukong or the Monkey King, inspired by the Chinese animated movie Uproar in Heaven from the 1960s.