I’m John — late 30s, solo game dev, dad, husband, and someone who decided to learn how to make a video game from scratch. No training. No prior experience. Just pure obsession, late nights, and a whole lot of Quackwork. I build weird, experimental, AI‑assisted 2D Unity games with personality and chaos.
Active Projects
2
Years Creating
“Long enough to know better”
Next Release
TBD
Solo dev, dad, husband — building games one stubborn idea at a time.
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I’m John — late 30s, solo game dev, dad, husband, and someone who decided one day to try making a video game by myself. What started as a hobby spiraled into a full creative obsession. I mostly build in Unity, but I’ve dabbled in Roblox coding, Python, GitHub workflows, and whatever else I need to learn to make the ideas in my head actually exist.
My first real project was TextZ Ombie — a 2D survival, hardcore horror, choose‑your‑own‑adventure hybrid with inventory, stats, sickness, diseases, and multiple playable characters. I worked on it for about six months before putting it on hold. It taught me everything: systems, UI, writing, pacing, and how deep the rabbit hole goes when you try to build something bigger than yourself.
Then came Duckmon — originally meant to be a tiny minigame inside TextZ Ombie. But it was too good, too fun, and too chaotic to stay small. It spiraled into its own standalone project and is now my main focus. I’ve been building it for about 6–8 weeks, and it’s already becoming something special.
I specialize in 2D Unity projects and handle everything myself — art, direction, gameplay, ideas, coding, audio, and all the weird glue in between. I use AI tools openly and playfully, not as a shortcut but as a creative amplifier. Every asset, every mechanic, every idea goes through me.
Real & raw. AI‑assisted. Solo‑built. Quackwork Studios.
My current projects — raw, experimental, and evolving.
A 2D survival, hardcore horror, choose‑your‑own‑adventure text experience with inventory, stats, sickness, diseases, and multiple playable characters. My first major project — six months of learning everything the hard way.
What started as a tiny minigame inside TextZ Ombie exploded into its own standalone universe. A chaotic, lore‑heavy, duck‑powered card battler spanning infinite realities. My current main focus.
A future Quackwork experiment — details coming when the chaos settles.
Honest progress notes, experiments, breakthroughs, failures, and the occasional Unity‑induced meltdown.
Card logic, multiverse rules, and early UI experiments are finally clicking.
Six months of systems, writing, pacing, and learning the hard way.
How I use AI as a creative amplifier, not a shortcut.
Collabs, feedback, chaos — drop a message.
