MIDNIGHT DESKTOP

Games for people who miss when computers felt mysterious.

Hey, I’m the person behind Midnight Desktop. I’m 33, from Houston, Texas, and I work in an arcade fixing games for a living.

I come from an art and graphic design background, and I’ve always liked making things — websites, characters, interfaces, game ideas, and little worlds.

A lot of my own interests and experiences end up in what I make. You can even see some of my arcade-tech background working its way into one of the characters in Hack the Planet.

Midnight Desktop is basically where all the stuff I love comes together.

Old computers. CRT glow. Dial-up. Weird websites. Shareware. Point-and-click games. Life sims. Flash games. Arcades. Staying up way too late clicking around online and finding things you probably weren’t looking for.

I’m not trying to perfectly recreate the 90s or early 2000s. I care more about recreating how that era felt.

When computers were a little mysterious.

When the internet felt smaller, stranger, and more exciting.

When you could stumble onto some weird site at 2AM and have no idea where it was going to lead.

That’s what Midnight Desktop is about.

HOW I’M MAKING THIS STUFF

I’m building these projects with help from AI tools.

I use AI for coding, iteration, brainstorming, and some art and assets. I’m still the one coming up with the worlds, characters, mechanics, ideas, visual direction, and deciding what stays, what gets changed, and what gets thrown away.

I know AI is a touchy subject for some people, so I’d rather just be upfront about it.

There’s a real person behind Midnight Desktop, and I actually want to hear from people who play what I make.

Tell me what you liked. Tell me what sucked. Tell me what confused you, what made you laugh, what you want more of, or what completely didn’t work.

Right now I’m making games with the tools and resources I have available.

If people connect with my ideas, I’d love to eventually put more money behind them, work with more artists and developers, and see how far I can take this.

For now, I’m just trying to make interesting games that feel like something I would want to play.

★ HACK THE PLANET

My current project is Hack the Planet, a retro computer life sim set in Planet City.

You work, make money, explore the city, browse a fake internet, play games, meet people, hack systems, and slowly start finding things you probably weren’t supposed to find.

► CHECK OUT HACK THE PLANET

If late-night CRT glow, weird websites, arcades, life-sim systems, hacking, corporate secrets, and getting distracted by things inside of things sounds like your kind of game, check out the Hack the Planet page.

That’s where you’ll find the full game description, screenshots, videos, development updates, and playable builds.

Play it, follow it, add it to a collection, or leave me a comment. I genuinely want to know what you think.

More games, experiments, screenshots, weird websites, and other Midnight Desktop projects are on the way.

Stay up late. Click things you shouldn’t.