Game // Original // Beta
Beta testingProject Backyard: Rockets
The Game Dev Lab’s first original game: backyard rocketry at a lakeside camp. The beta is running now on Windows, and we are taking tester applications.
Beta // Testers wanted
Project Backyard: Rockets
Our first original game is in beta on Windows. Apply to be a tester and play builds before anyone else.
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Malfunction Labs™
WE ARE CHAOS. CHAOS IS US.
Independent games, software, media, experimental systems, mods, simulations and strange ideas built through practical testing instead of endless meetings.
01Trial
02Document
03Adjust
04Launch
SYSTEM_STATUS: UNSTABLE
Projects
LOG_R_DATA //
Games, mods, software, simulators and tools moving through the Lab, and what has already shipped.
Client // Web // Shipped
LiveHeather’s Crowned Cleaning
Residential cleaning in Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. Weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, deep, move-in, move-out and construction cleans, priced by the room.
- Project
- ML-WEB-P001
- Launched
- 2026-09-11
- On the site
- Quotes · Services · Gallery · Reviews
- Current build
- reading…
Project // Active
Stop & Shop
A heavily expanded Schedule I mod project focused on progression, systems, characters, businesses and controlled chaos.
TestingSoftware // Active
Business Systems
Practical software projects, operational tools and custom systems designed around actual workflow problems.
ActiveSimulation // Development
Future Simulators
Experimental simulator concepts built around physical interaction, progression loops and systems that make players want one more run.
ResearchMod // Released
Over The Counter (fixed)
A port of OverTheCounter by hdlmrell to Schedule I 0.4.7, with new features and fixes from Malfunction Labs. IL2CPP and Mono builds.
Released v1.0.1 Download on GitHubLabs
METHOD_STACK //
Eight labs. Four are running, four are queued. A lab goes online when it has someone sitting in it, not when it has a name.
SOUND // VISUAL
SFX & VFX Lab
Sound effects, score, mixing and voice, plus 3D assets and visual effects for games, media and experiments.
OnlineGAMES // MODS
Game Mods Lab
Mod engineering against live game builds. Progression, systems, characters, businesses and controlled chaos.
OnlineWEB // DEPLOY
Web Design Lab
Sites designed, built and deployed end to end. Client work and the Labs’ own front door, this page included.
OnlineGAMES // ORIGINAL
Game Dev Lab
Original games and simulators built from the ground up instead of bolted onto somebody else’s. First project: Project Backyard: Rockets, now in beta.
OnlineSYSTEMS // TOOLING
Systems Lab
Practical systems and operational tooling built around workflow problems that actually exist.
QueuedSOFTWARE // BUILD
Applications Lab
Custom software for real jobs. The kind that replaces a spreadsheet somebody has quietly hated for years.
QueuedCREATOR // CONTENT
Creators Lab
Tools, overlays and production systems for people who make things in front of an audience.
QueuedRESEARCH // CHAOS
Weird Shit Lab
The ideas with no obvious home. Tried anyway, documented honestly, kept only if they survive contact.
QueuedMedia
SIGNAL_OUTPUT //
Build logs, project stories, experiments, failures, shorts and the occasional historical crime scene.
Series // Planned
So I Started a Chaos Studio...
The actual chronology of how a modding conversation somehow grew domains, ledgers, specialists, rituals and a graveyard.
QueuedDevelopment
Build / Break / Learn
Practical clips showing the gap between a good idea, a working build and a runtime pass.
In ProgressVideo // Short Form
Shorts
Quick experiments, disasters, breakthroughs, character moments and the occasional digital workplace fatality.
Latest: HalloweenArchive
Malfunction Logs
Real decisions, useful mistakes and the weird parts usually edited out of company stories.
OnlineSignal // Facebook
Follow the chaos live.
Build updates, experiments and the occasional disaster, posted as they happen. Click to follow on Facebook (Facebook will open in a different tab).
About Malfunction Labs
STUDIO_PROFILE //
Ideas. Systems. Solutions. Chaos.
Malfunction Labs™ is an independent creative and technical studio exploring games, software, media, simulation, automation and unusual ideas.
The goal is simple: let useful ideas survive long enough to become real things.
FOUNDER_STATUS: QUESTIONABLE // CHAOS_SOURCE: VERIFIED
About // UserSubmit
Build it.
Break it.
Learn why.
Industrial mechanic, systems builder, modder, designer and habitual asker of: “Why the fuck are we doing it that way?”
Malfunction Labs did not begin with a pitch deck. It grew out of years spent around machines, production floors, maintenance problems, workflows, games, mods and people doing complicated work with systems that could have been simpler.
The common thread is practical: look at what is actually happening, fix the thing that is actually wrong, and leave the system better than you found it. That mindset came from manufacturing and maintenance long before it ever touched code. Centerlines, tracking, preventive maintenance, process improvement and troubleshooting all teach the same lesson: the machine does not care what the meeting said it should do. It only cares what the system actually does.
The Lab applies that thinking everywhere. A mod can become a systems-design problem. A maintenance headache can become software. A simulator can become research. A ridiculous conversation can become a company operating principle if it keeps proving useful under pressure.
Trade DNAIndustrial maintenance + manufacturing
Operating ModePractical experimentation
Default QuestionCan this work better?
Corporate PolishUnder active investigation
AI is part of the toolchain here, but not the excuse. Specialists can research, organize, prototype, test, model, route, document and argue with each other. UserSubmit remains the final runtime authority. Access is not authority, approval is not a trigger, and a build passing is not the same thing as the thing actually working.
The Operating Philosophy
We do not need every idea to work. We need to test it honestly, learn something useful, preserve what mattered, adjust the design, and move forward.
WE ARE CHAOS. CHAOS IS US.
Trial. Document. Adjust. Launch.
Chaos is allowed. Organizational amnesia is not.
If the requirement says sheep, deliver a fucking sheep.
Contact // Routing
Send the
signal.
Malfunction Labs is still in the build stage, so communication is intentionally simple. Pick the route that matches what you are trying to do. Everything currently lands in the same monitored system while dedicated infrastructure waits until it is actually needed.
SHEET > EMAIL > SHEEP > MAYBE™
Messages are logged and routed on arrival. You will get a reference number the moment it lands. Do not buy the sheep while the sheet is still doing the fucking job.