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cactus (yes, intentionally uncapitalized), real name Jonatan Söderström, is a Swedish indie game developer known for his many short, quickly-produced games that frequently utilize Mind Screw. His official website is here and is also part of a band named Crystal Boys.

Several of the games cactus has produced have TV Tropes pages of their own. Among them are:

cactus's body of work displays the following tropes:

Abandoned Info Page: The games page ends abruptly around 2008, even though cactus has produced many more games afterwards - but everything after Cactus Arcade can only be found on his blog.
Body Horror / Eyes Do Not Belong There
Bullet Hell: He loves this genre, it seems.
Dead Baby Comedy
Level Editor: BlockOn! combines this with Randomly Generated Levels--you provide the level layout, the program sets up the traps and enemies.
Ludicrous Gibs: For those games which have blood.
Mind Screw: A lot of the games.
Ninja: The protagonists of Shotgun Ninja, Saru Ga Daisuki, Ninja Flu.
No Plot No Problem / Excuse Plot: For most games, the "plot" is the single paragraph on the download page.
Retraux: Most of his games are in a vintage, pixelated style.
Stylistic Suck: Ted's Wet Adventure. His other games sometimes show elements of that.
Violence Is Disturbing: Quite a few of his games (such as Dear Agent, Xoldiers) share the motif of a protagonist instilling mindless violence for violence's sake, or because they are Just Following Orders.
Vaporware: The third Mondo game.