Senior Software Engineer

Matt Black

Twig RPG is an immersive 3D web game built with React, React Three Fiber (R3F), and Three.js, bringing the classic StickRPG experience into a fully interactive 3D environment. The game features custom-built interactive environments with detailed 3D models and textures, smooth third-person character controls, realistic physics simulation, and dynamic real-time lighting that creates atmospheric and engaging gameplay. Players can interact with NPCs through dialog systems, make choices that affect branching storylines, and explore a rich 3D world directly in their web browser without requiring downloads or installations. This project showcases advanced web development skills, 3D graphics programming, game design principles, and the ability to create complex interactive experiences using modern web technologies.

3D browser RPG — React Three Fiber, physics, NPC dialog, and branching story.

Twig RPG

Marrowlight is a fully playable point-and-click hidden object mystery built directly into this portfolio. Rendered on an HTML canvas using the PixiJS graphics library, the game guides players through a fog-bound lighthouse in a story told across three kinds of scenes: explorable rooms with characters to talk to and objects to examine or collect, gentle logic puzzles (aligning light-bending prisms, assembling a clockwork beacon, and cracking a symbol cipher), and classic hidden-object challenges with a checklist of items to find in cluttered scenes. A cross-scene inventory lets items collected in one place be used in another - a pry bar found in the tide cellar opens a boarded painting in the drowned chapel, for example - and story flags gate progression so each mystery beat unlocks the next. All artwork is drawn procedurally with vector graphics, progress auto-saves to the browser, and the whole experience runs client-side with no downloads. The project showcases interactive canvas rendering, game state management, scene architecture, and narrative design using modern web technologies.

Browser hidden-object mystery on PixiJS — rooms, puzzles, inventory, and a branching lighthouse story.