Symbiome + Barrel Digger + Sprite Editor
PrototypeFrom artificial life and ecosystem simulation to consequence-driven mining gameplay, asset pipelines, and the tools required to make iteration real.
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What Was Built
A portfolio proof area covering Symbiome, Barrel Digger, and Sprite Editor: artificial life, ecosystem simulation, deterministic game systems, playable consequence, asset workflows, and the tooling needed to make iteration real.
Why It Matters
Interactive systems fail when behaviour is arbitrary or invisible. The rules, resources, physics, tools, and feedback loops have to be inspectable enough for a designer to reason about them and expressive enough for players to feel them.
Featured Projects
Artificial life simulation
An ecosystem simulation where water, plants, pollinators, animals, nutrients, seasonality, and agent behaviour combine into a living meadow.
The hard problem is not drawing a pretty meadow. It is making the world legible while the state changes under pressure: resources move, agents respond, populations shift, and the player needs to understand why.
The meadow is a systems surface. It shows resource flow, pollination, growth, decay, weather, event history, population pressure, and layered views of the same simulated world.
Deterministic collapse game
A physics and consequence-driven mining game where terrain, movement capability, gravity, barrels, materials, and progression create emergent gameplay.
Every move changes the mine. The system has to make risk readable: where the player can move, what can fall, which materials matter, and when cargo can be recovered safely.
It is a game about consequences rather than scripted puzzles. Terrain, ladders, gems, barrels, player capability, recovery goals, and level validation all push on one another.
Asset pipeline tool
A production tool for assembling, cleaning, previewing, validating, and exporting transparent sprite sheets used by the game pipeline.
The pipeline needed a small tool that could turn messy generated or imported art into predictable game-ready sheets without repeatedly hand-editing exports.
This is the unglamorous part that makes the games possible: loading art, slicing it, cleaning backgrounds, previewing rows, validating dimensions, saving projects, and exporting clean PNGs.
Pipeline
The point is not only that games were built. The stronger proof is that concept work, generated assets, Blender/Meshy processing, custom tooling, and playable products were treated as one delivery pipeline.
Define the behaviour the world needs to express before choosing assets or UI.
Generate or explore candidate creatures, objects, and visual directions.
Prepare models, poses, exports, animation frames, and usable production assets.
Clean, normalise, slice, validate, and preserve metadata for repeatable use.
Assemble transparent sheets and preview rows before shipping art into the game.
Feed the assets into Barrel Digger, Symbiome, and their simulation surfaces.
A creative systems stack: concept and generated art, asset processing, custom sprite tooling, simulation code, gameplay surfaces, ecosystem visualisation, level tooling, and product shells for web, desktop, and iPad targets.
Prototype / vertical slice: framed as public evidence of systems thinking, tooling, and simulation judgement, not as released-game performance or commercial outcome.
Add short gameplay clips, debug overlays, simulation traces, and architecture diagrams once the public capture set is ready.
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Bring the hard part: simulation, tools, product feel, workflow, or a system where the rules need to become understandable action.