Shipwreck Discovery Aquarium
A live wallpaper I made from the game's own reef, wreck and creatures. The fish react to music and to your mouse: move fast to scare them, hold still and the curious ones come over, click to drop food.
Shipwreck Discovery
A VR diving game set on real wrecks sunk as artificial reefs off Destin, Florida. I work on it full-time at AquaticXR, on gameplay systems and the real-time art pipeline, and I'm credited as a developer on its Steam page alongside Scott Gonnello and Ian McLennan.
What I do on it
- Build and test coral growth, planting, placement and collision systems in Godot, and tune the wildlife balance around them.
- Retopologize coral growth stages and large shipwreck assets, lay out UVs, bake PBR materials and deliver Godot-ready GLB files that hold up on Quest.
- Build the seafloor critters for the experimental branch: about 40 species, from octopus and mantis shrimp to crabs, lobsters, urchins and sea slugs, each placed by its real Gulf of Mexico habitat, with jointed animation and behaviour that runs cheaply on Quest.
- Track down VR interaction bugs and write regression tests so the fixes stay fixed.
- Make the trailers and short videos the studio uses to promote the game.
Steam Meta Quest Official site
Published by Lionfish Central, Inc. The source code is private.
Lionfish Reef Heroes
A pixel-art arcade game for Android and iOS. Lionfish have taken the reef; you dive in, spear them and bring the reef back across ten ocean habitats.
- Ten habitats with animated marine life, boss fights and collectible gear.
- Five assignments based on real marine careers: reef survey, coral nursery, turtle rehab and more.
- I set up one Godot project that builds for desktop, Android and iPhone, with automated builds for both phones.
- I wired up store purchases with a server that verifies them.
Sector War
Real-time space strategy in the browser: the pace of an .io game with a slimmed-down grand-strategy layer. You never leave the galaxy view.
- Three modes, from a 20-minute blitz to a two-hour campaign. AI empires each have a personality; there's diplomacy and a Galactic Council.
- Online multiplayer for up to eight players over WebSockets, on a deterministic engine.
- 81 automated tests, including a full bot-vs-bot game, plus a headless soak runner and a Python balance model.
- The whole game also ships as one 8 MB HTML file that runs offline in any browser.
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Things I've built that you can try right now, no install.
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Music Visualizer
Ten GPU shader worlds that react to your music. It asks to hear your audio: pick the tab or screen that's playing and tick "Share audio". Press M for mouse control.
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Frontline FPV
An FPV drone sim in Three.js with a rate-mode flight model, a generated frontline and air defence that shoots back. Keyboard or gamepad.
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Sector War
My real-time space strategy game, the whole thing in one file. Start a quick game against AI empires, or press "Watch the AI play".
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Gridpaper
A grid-paper design tool for explaining ideas to AI. Sketch a website layout in 2D or block out a room or game level in 3D, label everything, and export a picture plus a written description Claude can build from.
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Organism Evolution
A god-game evolution sandbox. Thirteen species with neural-network brains evolve horns, armour and speed in a full food web, or start from single cells and watch them crawl onto land. Raise islands, drop meteors and tornadoes, change the climate, then see in the Species Explorer which lineages won and why the others died out.
VRBlender
Blender 5.1 inside PC VR. Hold a trigger to draw a box, sphere, cylinder or Boolean cutter at the controller tip, release to commit. The hand menu stays on the hand that opened it, and every tool runs on Blender's own APIs, so no paid add-ons are needed.
Blender tools
I write Blender add-ons in Python for the jobs I keep doing by hand: remeshing, edge loops and texture layers.
- CurioMesh Quad-dominant remesher that keeps your materials and UVs intact.
- Topology Transitions Guided all-quad edge-loop reductions and expansions.
- TextureLayering Ordered PBR texture layers and mask painting for Blender 4.5.
- Claude Citizen: Solar Atlas Ten commits merged into another developer's browser space game, written with ChatGPT Codex under my direction. Play it
Music Visualizer
Ten GPU shader worlds that react to every part of whatever's playing: the kick, the snare, the hi-hats, the tempo and the drop. It lives in the Windows tray, and the same shaders run in the browser and a Chrome extension.
- A real-time analyzer splits the music into kick, snare and hi-hat hits, tempo and beat phase, the drop, section energy and even piano notes, and each look gives every signal its own job.
- Each look is one WGSL shader, about half a millisecond a frame, so it stays full of detail at 4K full screen.
- A frosted-glass UI drawn on the GPU, a window you can dock anywhere, mouse control, and colours taken from the current song's album art.
- The same shaders run in a WebGPU web player and a Chrome extension.
Admin Rights
A VR shooter set inside a computer, in pre-production. You're a freshly booted antivirus process. Every kill unlocks admin commands you type on a wrist terminal to spawn turrets, walls and vehicles in a destructible procedural city.
Video
Trailers and shorts for AquaticXR
I make trailers and shorts for the studio's games, like the Lionfish Reef Heroes trailer. The Shipwreck Discovery shorts come out of a pipeline I built: Claude Opus 5.5 drives Blender to build, animate and render the shots, ElevenLabs voices the narration, and I direct and cut them. I also run the studio's YouTube channel: it started in September 2026 and passed 18,800 views in its first five weeks.
My YouTube channel
I run CurioCrafter on YouTube with my family: AI-made shorts that we write, pick and edit by hand. It has 94.5 million views and 88,000 subscribers (October 2026).
Making things for a feed taught me what holds a stranger in the first two seconds. I bring that to game feel, onboarding and trailers.
Dive logExperience
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Game Developer & 3D Technical Artist
AquaticXR · Full-time, remote
Shipwreck Discovery: VR gameplay in Godot and OpenXR, coral and shipwreck assets from retopology to GLB, regression tests for VR fixes, trailers, shorts and the studio's YouTube channel. Also Lionfish Reef Heroes.
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Independent developer and creator
CurioCrafter
My own games (Sector War, Admin Rights), Blender add-ons, a desktop music visualizer, and a family YouTube channel with 94.5 million views.
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Apprentice Electrician
Malm Electrical Contractors, Longmont, CO · Productive Electric LLC, Englewood, CO
Commercial electrical work, including a school build, with jobsite safety and field troubleshooting.
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Wildland Firefighter / Electrical Pre-Apprentice
Trapper Creek Job Corps CCC, Darby, MT
Electrical pre-apprenticeship training and a season on a wildland firefighting crew.
Toolkit Godot 4 · GDScript · OpenXR · Python · Blender API · TypeScript · Three.js · WebGL · C++ · Git
How I work I design, review and test everything I ship, and I use AI coding agents to move faster: ChatGPT Codex on earlier work like Lionfish Reef Heroes and the Claude Citizen Solar Atlas, and Claude Opus 5.5 since it came out, including on Sector War, Admin Rights and VRBlender.