The Beginning
As a child, I first discovered my love for making games by writing comics, building
Starcraft maps, creating MS-DOS games with the OHRPGCE editor, designing worlds, crafting rules, and
testing ideas long before my teens. Teaching myself design through sheer obsession.
The Army: A slight deviation?
Post-highschool I had two options - pursue gamedev, or join the army. I chose the army. I had a great
time, and even the Canadian military couldn't stop my compulsion. During basic training, stripped of
personal
possessions, I'd make games out of cardboard and scraps of paper. I probably should have taken the hint
at this point, but he stuck it out for a 3 year contract. This helped me become a better leader, and a
better person who knew a lot of about guns. This is also where I adopted Bear, my soul-dog.
Indie & VR
Post-army, I moved into indie game development. A story as old as time - I worked a full time job,
and then spent every single night learning
to create games as a professional would. After a few years, I picked up my first job in the indie world
- it absolutely sucked, but I learned a lot. I then pivoted into virtual reality, deepening my mastery of
physics
systems, gameplay principles, and interactive design. VR became a crucible, demanding a new fluency in
spatial computing and human-machine interaction.
Leadership & R&D
I quickly rose through the ranks, and soon ran a team of 8 interdisciplinary individuals, from design
to development and everything in between.
When I moved into research and development, I remained a lead, conceiving and building experiences
that had never existed in the technology space: the first controller-free construction simulations,
teaching cameras to recognize grabs, rotations, and masked estimations without a controller. Both of my
last roles were lead
positions, hiring from across the industry, from indie studios to talent recruited from major companies
like Meta.
What's next?
At the end of the last chapter, I lost my best friend Bear. The loss of Bear shattered my world, so I
decided to build a new one in his memory.
Everything I’ve done up to this point - leading teams, building games and simulations, prototyping tech,
tackling abstract R&D has led to the birth
of Beardog Games. I’ve got the toolkit and the drive. I'm now making games full time, hiring where I can,
and hoping to make
an impact. No more time for games. Wait, yes more time for games. Lots of games.
