Mateusz Skutnik

Bio

From the "About Me" page on Skutnik's website:

"I'm an independent game developer and graphic novelist.

Telling stories – that's the thing I want to do in my life. Whether through comics or games – both mediums work fine for me. I've got lots of stories in my head, and I'll keep serving them to whoever wants to listen in whichever form."

Graphic novels

Blaki - October 2005 - ISBN 83-922963-0-3

Pan Blaki - January 2007 - ISBN 83-240-0868-3

Blaki. „Paski” - 2008 - ISBN 978-83-60915-19-6

Morfołaki - Zebrane - October 2007 - ISBN 978-83-61081-07-4

Skutnik released his Morfolaki series in English on his website as a series of webcomics called Daymare Morphs. The first comic, "The Nature of Things," was released on July 8, 2015. Skutnik released a new comic each week, usually on Mondays. The final comic, "The Tailor," (episode 46) was released on November 28, 2016.

Skutnik is also releasing the Revolutions series in English as a series of free digital files (.cbr, .cbz, .pdf). He announced the digital version of the first volume, Parabola, in 2015 when he reached $1200 a month on Patreon. He released it on May 6, 2016. He released the second volume, Ellipse, in December 2016.

Submachine

Submachine 1: The Basement (September 2005)

Submachine 2: The Lighthouse (June 2006)

Submachine 0: Ancient Adventure (August 2006)

Submachine 3: The Loop (August 2006)

Submachine 4: The Lab (April 2007)

Submachine: Future Loop Foundation (June 2007)

Submachine 5: The Root (January 2008)

Submachine 6: The Edge (October 2009)

Submachine Network Exploration Experience (June 2010)

Submachine: 32 Chambers (August 2010)

Submachine 7: The Core (December 2010)

Submachine 8: The Plan (September 2012)

Submachine 9: The Temple (March 2014)

Submachine FLF (December 2014)

Submachine 10: The Exit (December 2015)

Submachine Universe (January 2017)

Upcoming

Submachine: The Engine (TBA) ($2000 goal on Patreon)

Daymare Town

Daymare Town is a black-and-white game series written and drawn by Skutnik. The object of the games is to escape Daymare Town.

Daymare Town 1 (plus $2 HD version) (July 2007)

Daymare Town 2 (plus $2 HD version) (May 2008)

Daymare Town 3 (plus $3 HD version) (March 2010)

Daymare Town 4 (plus $5 HD version) (September 2013)

Daymare Cat (June 2013)

Where is 2010? (in Daymare universe) (December 2009)

Daymare Invaders (February 2012)

Daymare Kite

The four Daymare minigames (Daymare Cat, Where is 2010?, Daymare Invaders, and Daymare Kite) were released by Skutnik together in HD as a "Daymare Mini Bundle" for $2.

Upcoming

Daymare Town 5

10 Gnomes

10 Gnomes is a game series created by Skutnik. Each game consists of a series of black-and-white photographs of various settings, and the player can zoom in on the pictures in certain places to search for ten gnomes that Skutnik has drawn into the photos.

10 Gnomes 1: The Rooftops (January 2008)

10 Gnomes 2: Walk in the Park (February 2008)

10 Gnomes 3: Early Spring Garden (March 2008)

10 Gnomes 4: Foggy Flat (April 2008)

10 Gnomes 5: The Shipyard (May 2008)

10 Gnomes 6: The Hall (June 2008)

10 Gnomes 7: The Solitude (July 2008)

10 Gnomes 8: Water Forge (August 2008)

10 Gnomes 9: Chemistry (September 2008)

10 Gnomes 10: Seashore (October 2008)

10 Gnomes 11: The Remains (November 2008)

10 Gnomes 12: The Tank (December 2008)

10 Gnomes in Bologna (April 2010)

10 Gnomes in Liege (June 2011)

10 Gnomes in Porto Petro (June 2012)

10 Gnomes in Dubrovnik (October 2013)

10 Gnomes in Venice (September 2014)

10 Gnomes in Montaigut-le-Blanc (July 2015)

10 Gnomes in Pothia (September 2016)

10 Gnomes in Trstenik (July 2017)

Upcoming

10 Gnomes in TBA (2018)

10 Gnomes in TBA (2019)

10 Gnomes in TBA (2020)

10 Gnomes in TBA (2021)

In his 2016 wrap-up, Skutnik revealed that his plan for the 10 Gnomes series is to release 24 games overall, having released 12 games, one each month, in 2008, and then releasing 12 games, one each year, starting in 2010. This means that the final 10 Gnomes game will be released in 2021.

Covert Front

Covert Front is a game series written by Karol Konwerski and drawn by Mateusz Skutnik. It consists of four games in which the player plays as a secret agent named Kara, investigating the disappearance of a Bavarian scientist named Karl von Toten in 1904. The series takes place in an alternate universe where WW1 took place 10 years earlier, due to an earlier industrial/scientific revolution.

Covert Front 1: All Quiet on the Covert Front (July 2007)

Covert Front 2: Station on the Horizon (October 2007)

Covert Front 3: Night in Zurich (July 2009)

Covert Front 4: Spark of Life (April 2012)

Upcoming

Covert Front 5 (TBA)

Where is the New Year?

Where is the New Year is a series of games created by Skutnik. They are all very different, but are all connected by the main goal: to find the personified new year.

Where is 2009? (December 2008)

Where is 2010? (December 2009)

Where is 2011? (December 2010)

Where is 2012? (December 2011)

Where is 2013? (December 2012)

Where is 2014? (December 2013)

Where is 2015? (December 2014)

Where is 2016? (December 2015)

Where is 2017? (December 2016)

Upcoming

Where is 2018? (December 2017)

Mr. Mothball

Mr. MothBall

Cotton Carnage (November 2007)

Snowy Flakes

Zen Moth

Under the Cherry Moon

Mothball Header Game

Solar Missions

Mission to Mars

Mission to Saturn

Mission to Jupiter

Mission to Neptune

Mission to Venus

Mission to Mercury

Mission to Uranus (March 2012)

Mission to the Sun (July 2016)

Mission to Earth (December 2016)

The Squirrel Family (31 games)

The Acrobats

Aeroplane

Automobil

Aviator

Christmas Break

Crazy Cruise

Crowded House

Deadly Dash

Deep Space

Egz

Four seasons: Autumn

Four seasons: Spring

Four seasons: Summer

Four seasons: Winter

Freaky Fun

Funky Forest

The Kite

Labyrinth

Mars Raider

Oceanic

Octopus

Payback

Pink Panic

Polar Jump

Puppy Fetch

Roman Rumble

Run Run

Squirrel Escape

Squirrel Harvest

Tribal Jump

Twice as Bounce

Other games

Calligraphic (September 2009)

Bunny Catch Those Eggs

Castle Run

Last Egg Standing

Moths

Snowboard Stunts

Warfare Transporter

Pigeon Phew

Garden Door (April 2012)

Castanea

Lightem Out

Escape from Jayisgames (June 2014)

The Ravine (July 2017)

Social media

Skutnik said in a tweet on September 19, 2015 that he would put a game on Steam in 2016. He said on October 12 that he wouldn't want to put a "ten-year old flash game" on Steam, and that he wanted to start with something new. He said on November 6, 2015 that it was a possibility that he would put Submachine on Steam in the distant future.

After he released Submachine 10, he revealed his tentative plans for 2016. He said in a Facebook comment on January 5, 2016 that if he released a game on Steam, it would be in 2017.

On January 10, 2017, Skutnik revealed his plans for 2017 on his website. He said that he would probably start working on the Steam game in 2017, calling it "The Big Game." He said that it would probably take one to two years to complete, so the game may be released in 2018 or 2019.

Patreon

Mateusz Skutnik is currently at $1127 a month on Patreon, with 251 patrons.

Completed projects

Ads removed from website (June 2015)

10 Gnomes in Montaigut-le-Blanc (July 2015)

Daymare Morphs webcomic (started July 2015, completed November 2016)

Submachine 10: The Exit (December 2015)

Where is 2016? (December 2015)

Revolutions 10: Full Automatization (May 2016)

Revolutions 1: Parabola - digital English version (June 2016)

Mission to the Sun (July 2016)

10 Gnomes in Pothia (September 2016)

Mission to Earth (December 2016)

Revolutions 2: Ellipsis - digital English version (December 2016)

Where is 2017? (December 2016)

Mac OS X versions (January 2017)

Mission to the Sun

10 Gnomes in Pothia

Mission to Earth

Where is 2017?

Submachine Universe (January 2017)

Morphs: the New Testament" (June 2017)

The Ravine (July 2017)

10 Gnomes in Trstenik (July 2017)

Current projects

Expansion of Submachine Universe

The Big Game (started development January 2017)

Where is 2018? (December 2017)

Point-and-click game - title TBA

PastelGames (games not created by Mateusz Skutnik)

For a brief period of time at the beginning of 2016, Skutnik deleted the website of PastelGames, redirecting the URL pastelgames.com to his website's game page (mateuszskutnik.com/games). His reason for this was because no games will ever be made there again, since no one works at PastelGames anymore. However, after much protest and outcry from fans, he brought the website back. He has since turned it back to a redirect to his website's game page. It is unknown if the PastelGames website still exists.

The Fog Fall

The Fog Fall is a point-and-click game series made by Maciej Palka, D. Gizicki, and L. Blaszczyk. It takes place in an alternate universe, where a nuclear holocaust occurred in the 1950s. The fourth game leaves off on a cliffhanger, but production of the fifth game was permanently ended when PastelGames went bankrupt.

The Fog Fall 1 (April 2008)

The Fog Fall 2 (April 2009)

The Fog Fall 3 (August 2010)

The Fog Fall 4 (July 2012)

The Great Escape

The Great Escape is an escape-the-room series created for PastelGames. In each game, the player must figure out a way to escape each room in the house. In the last game, the player can access all the rooms to try to escape the house.

The Great Kitchen Escape (January 2008)

The Great Living Room Escape (April 2008)

The Great Bathroom Escape (August 2008)

The Great Basement Escape (October 2008)

The Great Bedroom Escape (December 2008)

The Great Attic Escape (April 2009)

The Great House Escape (April 2009)

The Scene of the Crime

The Scene of the Crime is a point-and-click mystery game series made by Kamil Kochanski. In each game, the player is a detective trying to solve a murder mystery. The first two games are in black and white, while the third is drawn in a much more colorful, painterly style.

The Scene of the Crime 1 (May 2009)

The Scene of the Crime 2: Golden Doll (July 2010)

The Scene of the Crime 3: Dream of Murder (March 2013)

Rizzoli and Isles

Rizzoli and Isles is a game series made by PastelGames based on the TV series of the same name. In each game, the player is an unnamed detective working for Rizzoli and Isles.

Rizzoli and Isles: The Masterpiece Murders (June 2011)

Rizzoli and Isles: The Boston Butcher (June 2012)

Aurora

Aurora is a point-and-click game series made by K. Poznanski and K. Olos that takes place in the 1800s in a little town in the Wild West. The player must escape before a singer named Aurora comes to town, because all the people in all the towns she has ever visited were found dead after she left.

Aurora 1 (November 2010)

Aurora 2 (September 2011)

Morbid

Morbid is a point-and-click game series written and drawn by Maciej Palka. It takes place in 1300s Europe at the height of the Black Plague. The goal of the games is to find a way to kill a vampire.

Morbid 1 (June 2009)

Morbid 2: The Cure (October 2010)

Mellow Escapes

The Mellow Escapes are a series of unrelated escape games created by B. Jarosik.

Escape Artist (July 2008)

Charger Escape (December 2008)

Bermuda Escape (August 2009)

Baba Yaga (April 2013)

Space Oddity

Space Oddity is a series of games that takes place on a space station. It was created by Karol Konwerski and Kamil Kochanski. The second game ends on a cliffhanger, but a third will probably never be made, since PastelGames no longer exists.

Space Oddity 1 (July 2009)

Space Oddity 2 (February 2010)

Sneak Thief

Sneak Thief is a game series where the player is a thief who tries to steal various inventions. It was created by V. Harutyunyan and Kamil Kochanski. The player is tasked by a man named Don Fabio to steal the inventions of a Professor Bellamy. In the last game, the player meets the professor, and becomes friends with him.

Sneak Thief 1: Prime Catch (September 2010)

Sneak Thief 2: Second Strike (November 2010)

Sneak Thief 3: Triple Trouble (March 2011)

Sneak Thief 4: Fourth Find (December 2011)

Sneak Thief 5: Final Five (April 2012)

Tortuga

Tortuga is an escape-the-room series written and drawn by M. Frankowski. It takes place on a pirate ship, and the player must solve various pirate-themed puzzles to escape. There is a third game, but as it was not made for PastelGames it was never on their website.

Tortuga 1 (November 2008)

Tortuga 2 (March 2009)

Other games

When the PastelGames website still existed, the "other games" section of the website redirected to Mateusz Skutnik's website's game page. These were the games that existed on that page before the link to it was removed. Many of these can be found elsewhere on the internet, on flash gaming websites such as Kongregate and JayIsGames.

Toxic Jump

Iron Works

Absolute Zero

Gorilla Cop

The Trader of Stories: Bell's Heart (October 2010)

Halo and Pixy (January 2011)

Owl's Nest (March 2011)

Monster Detective (November 2012)

Plumber Pickle (August 2013)

Eien (October 2014)

Livestreams

Skutnik currently livestreams on his YouTube channel every Sunday at 4 PM EST, drawing games and comics. He uploads the VODs of his streams onto his channel immediately after each stream.

Livestreams 28-39: Moving to Twitch

From September 26, 2016 to December 13, 2016, Skutnik livestreamed on Twitch instead of YouTube due to copyright strikes his channel had received. He still uploaded the VODs of his Twitch streams to YouTube.

Livestreams 40-50: Return to YouTube

At this point, Skutnik returned to livestreaming on his YouTube channel.

Ink Companion Season 1

At this point, Skutnik began livestreaming multiple times a day, naming each stream "Ink Companion."

The duplication of the numerical designation for Ink Companion 29 appears to be an error on Skutnik's part. The two identically named VODs are separate streams.

At this point, Skutnik stopped numbering the streams based on the original numbering system, and instead labeled them as sXXeXX (i.e., s01e31 for the 31st "Ink Companion" stream in season 1)

Note: At some point after this, Skutnik changed the titles of the VODs for Ink Companion parts 1-30 to his new sXXeXX numbering system. The result of this was the separation of the two series Ink Companion and Live Streams. Before this point (Ink Compaion 31), the Ink Companion streams still had a secondary numerical designation continuing from Live Stream 50. When Skutnik removed this from the VOD titles, he separated his Live Streams series from his Ink Companion series. Because of this change, the chart directly above now reflects Skutnik's wishes in separating Ink Companion streams from Live Streams, and the new sXXeXX system has replaced the original numbering system.

Livestreams 51-52

Skutnik would periodically return to his Live Streams series in between Ink Companion streams.

Ink Minute

In between Ink Companion streams, Skutnik sometimes would upload a short video titled "Ink Minute." These videos have all been exactly one minute long.

Livestreams 53-58

After the completion of Ink Companion season 1 on May 29, 2017, Skutnik returned to regularly streaming installments of his Live Streams series.

Ink Companion Season 2

For Season 2 of Ink Companion, Skutnik returned to streaming on Twitch and uploading the VODs to YouTube.

Awards for flash games design

Jayisgames - Point and Click Game of 2012

First prize: Submachine 8: The Plan

Jayisgames - Point and Click Game of 2010

First prize: Submachine 7: The Core

Third prize: Daymare Town 3

Jayisgames - Adventure Game 2009 (browser games)

Winner: Submachine 6: The Edge

Fourth prize: Covert Front 3: Night in Zurich

Storm of the Year from 2008 - 10 Gnomes

Jayisgames: Best of Adventure 2008 - Audience Award

Winner: Submachine 5: The Root

Third prize: Daymare Town 2

Game of the Month in the journal GeeDisplay - Mission to Mars

FreeGamesNews: third place in the competition for Best Developer of 2007

Jayisgames - Point and Click Game of 2007

Winner: Submachine 4: The Lab

Fifth prize: Covert Front

Seventh prize: Daymare Town

Album of the Year Award 2006 - Blaki