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Robin Baumgarten 👨‍🏭✨
@robinwobbles.bsky.social
Experimental Playful Hardware Designer. I made Line Wobbler, which won some awards. Now working on Quantum Jungle ✨🌱🔨
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Hi I'm Robin! I build playful interactive installations and alt ctrl games, like one-dimensional Line Wobblers or the science & art spring wall Quantum Jungle 💥👨‍🏭🌱
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It's done! Silly #oeufgame controller. (Thanks to @mrlucagames.bsky.social and @robinwobbles.bsky.social for help with construction).
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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ANNOUNCEMENT: introducing our latest game!

The Marvelous Raincaster of Yell Holler, a time-looping puzzle ballad. 🪕

💧 Unravel a story-based time puzzle
💧 Employ a traveling c̶o̶n̶m̶a̶n̶ salesman
💧 Orchestrate a shindig and other such matters

Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3800300/
October 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Hanging out with @robinwobbles.bsky.social qtoday who was helping me with some electronics :)
October 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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We got Line Wobbler (2015) by Robin Baumgarten (@robinwobbles.bsky.social) for the Games programme!
Line Wobbler is a one-dimensional dungeon crawler with a custom controller made out of a spring and a LED strip display.
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Get ur tix! billet.to/1671412-bsky

@horatiuromantic.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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I’ve been working on this side project for several months now. It’s a hand-made ceramic video game? It’s still a WIP, but I got everything wired up for the first time last night so I could test controlling all the lights individually. Exciting step! Now I “just” have to make it interactive. 😅
October 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Friends! ✨

I have some time for freelance work in the next months! 😊

Let’s talk if you need some emotional game design for your project! 🥰

calendly.com/marinadiez
Marina Díez
Hola! What can I do for your games? ❤️
calendly.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Eggification, 1/5
October 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Quantum Spire at Gamescom! It's so busy, but I'm also not really manning the booth, so it's actually quite relaxed for me 😃
August 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Cadence is a minimalist zen game about solving circuits to generate music.

To find out what that means, there's a brand new Steam demo available as part of the #CerebralPuzzleShowcase by @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social!

store.steampowered.com/app/362800/C...
Cadence on Steam
Relax. Solve Problems. Make Music. Feel Nourished. Beautifully simple, devilishly clever - Cadence is the experimental sandbox game that uses problem-solving to create music.
store.steampowered.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Loving this little roguelike kingdom builder!
June 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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The OG still delivers: #LineWobbler by @robinwobbles.bsky.social remains a fixture at Panke during @amazefest.bsky.social and never fails to provide some nice footage. 😙 #amazeberlin #amaze2025
May 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Absolutely love these whizzy wobbly guys from @robinwobbles.bsky.social at @amazefest.bsky.social!
May 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
New interactive art installation alert!! Quantum Spire is a playful, immersive science & art installation with 576 custom touch sensitive springs that visualises quantum physics in an accurate, but playful way.
March 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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I’m not at GDC this year, but @art.imitates.life and @cigumo.bsky.social are going to do #GDCFeet tomorrow! (Saturday 22nd). Join them for a playful hike around the Lands End headlands!
The stars are right. Fallen lichens and grains of sand crunch between our #GDCFeet as we say our long goodbyes.

We will gather at Powell Street Station, 11 AM on Saturday, where the sun reaches under the ground.
March 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Hello GDC! I'm in San Francisco to check out the alt ctrl games and meet friends 🤩
March 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues.
gofund.me/47306b15
March 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I've seen Marina give professional workshops to massive game studios about Emotional Game Design before, this is an incredible opportunity if you're looking to broaden your game design repertoire!
I’m so happy that there was interest on my 1-1 workshop on Emotional Game Design that I set up a page where you can book it now! ✨😊

emotionalgamedesign.xyz

For any questions, drop me a line! 💛
March 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
In Santa Cruz this week relaxing a bit before GDC. 🏄‍♂️
Excited to see you all soon in Yerba Buena Park!
March 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
On my way to Los Angeles and San Francisco! This is actually going to be a fairly relaxing GDC by the looks of it, which suits me just fine! Happy to hang out with y'all in Yerba Buena 💚
March 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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i loved finally getting to see Quantum Jungle but even better was getting coffee with its parents @robinwobbles.bsky.social and @ninfadp.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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- Seeing a CONSTANT stream of people playing with @robinwobbles.bsky.social Quantum Jungle, which has metrics and averaged 5 spring-touches per second over the 72 hour event
- Briefly introducing Robin to Beyblade, trying to explain why it is both very dumb and very fun
January 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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One of the more interesting additions to MAGfest this year. This thing that you flick springs on to make colors spread around? I dig it!
January 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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@robinwobbles.bsky.social and I are at magfest today!!! 💛
January 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Things are shaping up at @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social 👀
January 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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And if you have no idea what the alt ctrl scene is, there’s a panel on that happening on it Friday at 5:30! @koonce.itch.io is moderating, @robinwobbles.bsky.social will talk about wobbles, Erin will talk about academia, @windupthing.bsky.social will talk about punching stuff. It’s gonna be gr8
January 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM