2026In development
LOWBLOCK Soccer
Tactical top-down football, built to be played together
A 2D top-down football game about through balls and holding a lead, not packs and points. Co-operative against the computer, online or on one sofa.
Games · Tabletop · Experiments
3arlycode
Developer by trade, game designer by obsession.
Unconventional games made in whatever time is left over — multiplayer bridge sims, social deduction, procedural map generators. Most of it is designed specifically for me, and nobody else plays it. Everything here is a side quest from the day job.
Games
In development, and honest about it.
2020Archived
Daily Dungeon Level
A dungeon crawl for one, on one side of paper
A print-and-play dungeon delve designed to be published daily — a level on one side, your party on the other, no dice and nothing to set up. It ran for a handful of levels in 2020 and then stopped, for reasons worth writing down.
2019Archived
Rum and Gold
Eighteen identical cards, and the game is where they land
A pirate dexterity game made for Button Shy's September 2019 design challenge, where all eighteen cards had to be identical. Instead of fighting the constraint, the cards became terrain: you drop them into an island and play by covering and uncovering what is printed on them.
Devlog
Writing about the games, filed in the archive with everything else.
- Why another soccer game?
The football games I used to play with friends have quietly turned into a different genre. LOWBLOCK is my attempt to build the one that went missing.
- What Wordle is actually leaning on
My daily dungeon game failed because the paper got too busy. Underneath that was something I hadn't seen: the simplicity of Wordle, crosswords and sudoku is borrowed, and a dungeon has nothing to borrow it from.
- A dungeon a day
In 2020 I tried to build the RPG version of Wordle — a solo dungeon crawl on one printable page, published daily, with no dice and nothing to set up.
Elsewhere
Where the games get published, when there is something to publish.