<img src="images/UHMlogo.png" height="237">\n\nWe build games that are moral laboratories.\n\nOur first project, //[[Astronaut: The Best|http://www.astronautthebest.com]]//, is currently in development.\nFollow its progress on Twitter [[@AstronautBest|http://www.twitter.com/AstronautBest]].\n\n----\n<div class="mono">\nBefore reincarnating as an actual game studio, Universal Happymaker was a collective of game design students.\nTheir academic experiements and game jam demos live on [[here|/collective]].</div>\n\n----\nUniversal Happymaker: <<print either(\n"We create fake humans so you can ruin their lives and become more human.",\n"Broken games for perfect people.",\n"Like a puppet show performed in front of a god.",\n"We give you enough rope to hang yourself, and make it festively colored and it plays a little song.",\n"Silly scenarios. Serious repercussions.",\n"Giving you the tools to destroy your worldview and have fun doing it.",\n"Artificial scenarios with genuine values.",\n"A scam for your benefit.",\n"Delights that thrill the tastebuds and fatten the conscience.",\n"Caveat emptor.",\n"Our games can provide you with thoughts that will put you on the cutting edge of technology, society, and even morality. Bring home the bacon, the right way.",\n"We make regular easygoing games for genuine 100% type people.",\n"We make regular games for strange people.",\n"We put feelings into a graduated cylinder and hand you the keys.",\n"We make the human soul playable, including achievements and New Game +.",\n"We use machines to make people more human.",\n"We want our players to thank us for giving them an experience that they didn’t want or ask for.",\n"We intend to create a world where everyone enjoys our games without exception.",\n"Balderdash, claptrap, hokum, drivel, buncombe, imposture, quackery, humbug.",\n"All the fun of a Skinner box with none of the bad press.",\n"You’ll think that it’s a joke until it’s too late. It’s still a joke, but it’s still too late.",\n"Laser-guided drivel for eagle-type people.",\n"A Stanford prison experiment where no one else can see what you’ve done.",\n"Founded to embody the core values of revenge, beauty, and integrity.",\n"Just trying to make regular games for REGULAR people. Many people basically agree with what we're doing, but don't always say as much.",\n"Over the past four years, we have grown from a single student council to a multinational conglomerate that guides the world towards its inevitable conclusion.",\n"A pyramid scheme. Our game sales are on the level, but we are planning to steal the pyramids Carmen Sandiego-style.",\n"When Otto von Bismarck was defeated at the Battle of Belfast, he famously said ''Life is but the drippings from the pan of intentions.'' At Universal Happymaker, we take his words to heart by building our culture around working hard while having fun. Other companies DON'T DO what Universal Happymaker DOES DO, which is work hard while having fun.",\n"Universal Happymaker was founded with a simple dream: to disprove that living well is the best revenge.",\n"A ragtag baseball team coached by an alcoholic, whose season turned around when they bound a demon prince to their service."\n)>>

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