I build worldsyou can feel.

I'm Matthew. I started making games in grade 9, the year someone finally showed me that the things I played were made by people — and that I could be one of them. My first game was bad in a way I couldn't stop thinking about, and the question of why it felt bad to play is still the one I chase.

I write as much as I design. I've spent years on creative writing and studied it at summer programmes at Georgetown and Oxford, which turned out to be the most useful game design training I've had. A mechanic and a sentence have the same job: give someone exactly enough, in the right order, and let them do the rest.

For several years I've volunteered at one of BC's largest autism clinics. I went in to help and ended up learning how narrow most games are about who gets to play them. I built a handful of small games for the kids there — no timers, no fail states, no sudden noise — and watching a child play something I made, on their own terms, reset what I think games are for.

I work in Unity and Godot, draw in Procreate, and build my own tools when the existing ones get in the way.

Engines

Unity (C#), Godot (GDScript)

Art

Procreate, Blender, Aseprite

Writing

Summer programmes at Georgetown & Oxford

Volunteer

Autism clinic, several years

Focus

Accessible play, systems design, narrative