About me

I've been writing software since 1999, across all sorts of languages and platforms. Game development was always the thing I wanted to get into, but I never actually took the plunge until 2020, during the COVID lockdowns, when I finally sat down and started learning Unity.

I've also been a gamer for about as long as I can remember, and survival games are the genre I always come back to. I've put thousands of hours into games like ARK: Survival Evolved. What I love about the genre is starting with nothing, exploring a world I don't understand yet, and slowly turning that into a home while the game does its best to kill me.

I've always loved voxel games too. There's something about a world you can actually change that just clicks with me. Dig into a mountain, carve out a cave, flatten a hillside, build wherever you want, and it stays that way.

For years I had this idea sitting in the back of my head: a proper survival game, but built on a fully destructible voxel world, with dinosaurs in it. Eventually I got tired of just thinking about it and decided to actually try building it. That game became Evolve.

Doing something this ambitious solo is a genuine challenge. I'm learning new things constantly, and there's a lot I still don't know. But I'm also having a lot of fun building the kind of world I've wanted to play in for years, and I write up the interesting bits in the journal as I go.

Evolve is still growing and changing, but underneath all of it, this is a game built by someone who genuinely loves survival games, voxel worlds, and the freedom they can give players.