M.O.T.I.S.
The M.O.T.I.S. shield
M.O.T.I.S. — Ender Knight, raw and real

I’m Ender Knight.
I make games. I’m raising awareness of domestic abuse.

A dad, a martial artist, and a solo developer who taught himself to build games after thirty years of blue-collar work. Catnip Wars is out now. Cradle of Ash is out now on Steam, with a free demo. Catnip Wars 2: Empires has its Steam page. And alongside the games I use this site to raise awareness of domestic abuse, especially the kind that happens to men, which almost nobody talks about.

Live on Twitch, around the clock

Want to see what I’m up to? Come hang out on Twitch.

My Twitch channel is where everything I’m working on shows up first. Footage from whatever game is on the bench, the trailers, clips of me talking through how things got made, and a chat that actually gets answered. It runs all day, every day, hosted by Ender Head: a 3D scan of my own head with my voice, running on the PC in my kitchen. And when I sit down to play or build something live, it’s right there with me.

Ender Head, the 3D scan of my head that runs the stream Live 24/7 · click to watch

The head is a fictional character based on me. Its voice is a synthesized clone of mine. What it says is not me talking, and it is not my family talking either.

The games

Shipped, shipping, and on the bench

Cradle of Ash key art Out now · free demo

Cradle of Ash

1–4 player co-op survival horror · PC

Burn the dead or they come back. Story-driven survival horror for one to four players, or go in alone. Plus Bloodthirsty Demon Baby Mode: your friends join as the litter and hunt you. The free demo is the whole first level. Full game $9.99.

Catnip Wars key art Out now

Catnip Wars

Co-op tower defense · 1–4 players · PC

Catbots versus monsters. Defend the catnip. Build the line, pick your cats, and hold the farm with up to three friends or on your own.

THE LEGEND OF LEGENDARIA Where Legends are Born In development

The Legend of Legendaria

Single-player hex tactics RPG · PC

Four hundred years ago the sky broke, and the king who bargained with what fell rose as the Bone Tyrant. Now three townsfolk refuse a warlord his star-tithe, and the long road east begins. Hex-board tactics where death sticks, Spirit Stones that grow with you, a caravan of forty, six endings. Eighties fantasy film, playable.

Catnip Wars 2: Empires key art Wishlist on Steam

Catnip Wars 2: Empires

Persistent multiplayer space trading · PC

The second game in the Catnip Wars universe. Create your own universe, build a trading empire across a never-ending galaxy of cats, and dominate your friends, solo or in your own MMO. Tested with 2,600 players on one server.

About

Who is behind the shield

I’m Ender Knight. I’m a dad and I’m Gen X. I grew up in California, I have trained in martial arts my whole life, I spent thirty years in restaurants, customer service and blue-collar jobs, and in 2026 I started building games by myself so I could work from home and be around for my kids.

Somewhere in the middle of all that I learned, the hard way, how little anyone talks about domestic abuse when the one on the receiving end is a man. So I talk about it, alongside the games. I am training again, I have lost 30 pounds, and I am doing fine.

M.O.T.I.S. is the name on the door. There is no team behind it. Every game here is designed, built, tested, trailered and shipped by one person, with Claude Code and Unity doing the heavy lifting on code, and all of them are on Steam. How that works is in Part 3 of my story.

  • Catnip Wars, co-op tower defense, released August 2026.
  • Cradle of Ash, co-op survival horror, out now on Steam. Free demo too.
  • The Legend of Legendaria, a single-player hex tactics RPG, in development. No date yet.
  • Catnip Wars 2: Empires, persistent multiplayer, on Steam to wishlist.
  • Abuse against men: the awareness page, with three videos, the numbers, and where to get help. Find out more.
  • Martial arts and fitness, alongside the games, on the YouTube channel.
  • No publisher, no studio, just me. If any of this is worth something to you, there is a tip jar on Venmo (@Ender-Knight). A wishlist helps just as much.

Press and business: see the press kit, or write to .

Awareness — abuse against men

Men are victims of abuse too

More than 1 in 6 men in the US will experience intimate partner violence in their lifetime, and most of them never tell anyone. Psychological abuse, gaslighting and isolation leave no marks, so nobody sees them, often not even the man they are happening to. The silence is what keeps men in it, and I want it talked about. I have my own reasons. They are on the next page, along with the numbers and where to get help.

Find out more Where to get help

If you are a man going through it right now: the National Domestic Violence Hotline is 1-800-799-7233, 24 hours a day, and they take men seriously.

Follow

One account, every game

Everything I make goes through the same channels, so you only have to follow once. New trailers, dev updates and launch days all land here first.

Channels are being set up. Until then, the free Cradle of Ash demo is on Steam.

Or get it by email

Launches, big updates and new videos, for every game. One list covers all of them.