Projects

Our fifth weekend-long immersive competition weekend inspired by the Korean reality show The Genius.

Grandstand is a fast-playing, two player spatial card game evocative of classic card games but with a puzzly modern twist. Build a 5x5 grid of cards, then score the poker hands formed within the grid.

After the success of our work designing the finale round of The Gauntlet 2023, I was invited to come aboard the Gamers Engaged team and help run the 2024 edition of Seattle’s premiere annual charity board gaming tournament.

Arkaruga is a reality-bending twist on the classic brick breaker genre. (Or a bold-faced mash-up of Arkanoid and Ikaruga, if you prefer.) It’s an arcade-style score attack game where you must shatter as many bricks as you can before you lose all of your lives.

Our fourth weekend-long immersive competition weekend inspired by the Korean reality show The Genius.

The Cookout is a supplement for Fast Friends, my one page RPG of fast cars and found families.

As part of Intrigue Industries, I helped design and proctor the finale round for Gamers Engaged’s 2023 Gauntlet charity fundraiser tournament. We were given the challenge of designing a finale round that had to:

Our third weekend-long immersive competition weekend inspired by the Korean reality show The Genius.

A collection of open-source utilities and libraries for developing games in Unity.

Twindle is a head-to-head variant of Josh Wardle’s popular puzzle game Wordle, based on a modified ruleset proposed by my friend Matthew Moore. Twindle is a heavily modified version of the React Wordle codebase developed by Hannah Park and Chase Wackerfuss.

Our second weekend-long immersive competition weekend inspired by the Korean reality show The Genius.

Mulligan Stew is a card-matching and light bluffing game for 2-5 players where you play as workers in the royal kitchen, competing to prepare the best stews for each member of the royal family by matching the cards in your hand with each royal’s preferred stew ingredients.

Fast Friends is a one page, one shot RPG of fast cars and found families for 3-5 players and one GM.

The Outer Rim is the second entry in my series of jubensha-style online murder mysteries. It is the sequel to The Great Northwest Baking Show.

Songs About Us is a one-shot RPG I wrote about music and the friends we shared it with.

The Great Northwest Baking Show is a murdery mystery party that I designed in 2020 for a friend’s birthday party. The game is played socially-distanced over video chat and makes use of a custom website built in Twine to allow the players to explore the digital crime scene.

A weekend-long immersive competition weekend inspired by the Korean reality show The Genius.

Deckard is a Unity-based layout tool for card game prototyping, built for game designers who are already familiar with Unity’s built-in Canvas components.

Pack of Spies is a spy-themed card placement game for 2-5 players where you try to build sets of agent cards to take over various regions of the world. The trick is that you are loyal to two spy agencies, and you share one of those loyalties with each of the players on your left and right.

Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dice (DD&D for short) is a micro-RPG about TV chefs. I wrote it for the 2019 200 Word RPG Challenge, in which it was selected as a finalist.