Blendo Merch Store

26 Jan 2026 / Brendon

It’s Atom Zombie Smasher’s 15th anniversary! 🎉🎉🎉 To celebrate:

1. Launch of the Blendo Games merch store

Video games are very digital & intangible, so I thought it’d be fun to make some Blendo Games physical items.

We’re happy to announce the Blendo Games merch store! Live and open for orders. Wear a cool shirt! Slap a sticker on your laptop!

Featuring designs from:

Gravity Bone
Atom Zombie Smasher
Flotilla
Thirty Flights of Loving
Quadrilateral Cowboy

2. Updated Atom Zombie Smasher

Yes, you can update your 15 year old video game. It’s allowed!

Here are the changelog notes for the Atom Zombie Smasher 15th anniversary update (v2.2):

Timescale can now be 1%

The slowest timescale used to be 10%. This update now adds a new, even slower timescale: 1%. This is a quality-of-life addition that grants you more time to think and decide.

Can now more easily deselect unit

Pressing ESC willl now deselect the active unit. Sometimes you just want to view the cityscape without having a unit selected – this makes it easier to do that.

(Note: if you don’t have a unit selected, pressing ESC will open the pause menu. This is the same behavior as prior to this update)

Vignette fixes

The seams in the comic vignette images are now fixed. This issue was caused by images “bleeding” in their neighboring pixels, which created what looked like a seam or gap.

Behind the Scenes UI

The Behind the Scenes screen now correctly limits how far it scrolls, to prevent you from scrolling into outer space and beyond.

There were some buttons linking to social media that was no longer updated. These were changed to newer, updated links.

Showfloor demoing fix

In the past, Atom Zombie Smasher was shown at various expos and conferences and conventions. During these showings, it was helpful to have a button that instantly reset the entire game. Somehow this showfloor functionality snuck into the release version (oops 😅). This issue has been fixed.

Crashes will now ask to submit a form

If the game crashes, it now generates crash information and submits it into a form. This makes it a lot easier for us to receive information about any technical issues.

Mac startup issue

There were some outdated files in the Mac build that prevented startup. This is now resolved.

This update is live on Steam and itch.io. Big huge thanks to Ethan Lee for technical help on getting this update out the door.

And thanks to folks on our Discord for helping verify some fixes!

Et al

For the merch items, I handled the design work.

It was fun to revisit my art from past titles, re-opening dusty photoshop files I haven’t touched in years. I cleaned up the designs, fixed some stuff, and adjusted the art to fit the merch requirements/parameters.

It was quite the trip. “Oh cool, that used an ancient photoshop brush that I no longer have…” 😔

Looking forward to revisiting all of this again in the future!