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 the CM Child Development Clinic, 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 started building games for the kids there, 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

CM Child Development Clinic, several years

Focus

Accessible play, systems design, narrative