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  Web publishing tutorial

  Publishing a Ren’Py Web Build to itch.io

  I work through Ren’Py’s web build, the common pitfalls around it, and the complete path to a game your players can launch on itch.io.

  May 2023

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  Emerging technology tutorial

  Getting Havok physics and its visual debugger working in Unity

  I work through the preview package, reproduce a misleading connection timeout, and show the missing runtime condition that makes the debugger start receiving data.

  November 2019

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  Spatial prototyping workflow

  Moving spatial prototypes from Microsoft Maquette into Unity

  I test the real design-to-development handoff, automate the export loop, and document both the useful prefab generation and its destructive limitation.

  March 2019

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  Asset optimization workflow

  Dialing in Oculus Medium models for game-engine performance

  I compare measured triangle counts against visible quality and show two practical ways to prepare a VR sculpt for a real-time engine.

  March 2019

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  Three-part learning series

  Learning character rigging in public with Unity and Puppet3D

  Across three practice sessions, I build the rig, expose the mistakes, animate a hand, and refine the largest problems first.

  March 2019

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  Release automation demo

  Turning an itch.io Butler push into a double-click release

  I take a working command-line publishing path and remove the repeated setup so the correct release action becomes the easiest one to run.

  March 2019

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  Platform integration tutorial

  Connecting Oculus achievements to unlockable Home items

  I trace a player reward across dashboard configuration, Unity code, 3D asset conversion, Home testing, submission, and the intended unlock experience.

  December 2018

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  Museum game and exhibit contribution

  Building FrogBug for the Saint Louis Science Center

  I helped build the arcade infrastructure, made FrogBug with the BunnyGun team, and kept improving it after museum visitors found the failure modes we never would have found at a desk.

  September–October 2018

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  Launch communication collection

  Turning three game projects into player-facing launch stories

  I bring together Danciverse, HAM COMMANDO, and The Music Box to show how I adapted short-form launch communication to three different production contexts.

  2017–2018

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  Developer tooling walkthrough

  Batch-editing Unity scene settings from the command line

  I turn a repeated editor task into a PowerShell workflow that updates the same serialized setting across roughly thirty Unity scenes in seconds.

  March 2018

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