Andrew Rainsberger

Game developer at AquaticXR and a credited developer on Shipwreck Discovery, a VR diving game in Early Access on Steam and Meta Quest. I work across Godot gameplay, the real-time art pipeline and video. I build with AI coding agents (Claude Opus 5.5, ChatGPT Codex) and design, review and test everything I ship. My family YouTube channel has 94.5 million views.

Experience

Game Developer & 3D Technical ArtistJul 2026 – present

AquaticXR · full-time, remote

Shipwreck Discovery (published by Lionfish Central, Inc.): build and test coral growth, planting, placement and collision systems in Godot/GDScript, and tune wildlife balance.
Retopologize coral growth stages and large shipwreck assets, lay out UVs, bake PBR materials and deliver Godot-ready GLBs that hold up on Quest.
Build about 40 animated seafloor critters for the experimental branch (octopus, mantis shrimp, crabs, lobsters) with Claude agents; debug VR interaction and add regression tests.
Make the studio's trailers and shorts and run its YouTube channel (18,800+ views in its first five weeks).
Lionfish Reef Heroes: pixel-art arcade game for Android and iOS, team of three; built with ChatGPT Codex writing the code. One Godot 4.5 project with automated phone builds and verified store purchases.

Independent Developer & Creator2023 – present

CurioCrafter

Run a family YouTube channel of AI-made shorts: 94.5 million views, 88,000 subscribers; top shorts at 36M, 17M and 11M views.
Own games and tools, listed below.

Selected projects

Sector War · real-time space strategy in the browser. Online multiplayer for up to 8 players on a deterministic engine, AI empires, 81 automated tests. Solo; built with Claude Opus 5.5.

Music Visualizer · Windows tray app (C#, .NET 9, WASAPI loopback) with ten audio-reactive looks; drops its own priority so games come first.

Shipwreck Discovery Aquarium · music- and mouse-reactive live wallpaper (Three.js) built from the game's reef, wreck and creatures, with a Blender-rendered backdrop.

Blender add-ons · CurioMesh (remesher that keeps materials and UVs), Topology Transitions, TextureLayering.

VRBlender · Blender 5.1 in PC VR (OpenXR): draw volumes and Boolean cutters with the triggers. Built with Claude Opus 5.5.

Admin Rights · VR shooter in pre-production (Godot 4, OpenXR): typed admin commands, destructible procedural city.

Skills

Godot 4 · GDScript · OpenXR · Python · Blender API · retopology, UVs, PBR baking · TypeScript · Three.js · WebGL · C# / .NET · C++ · Git · video editing · AI coding agents (Claude Opus 5.5, ChatGPT Codex)