Marvel’s Deadpool VR

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  • Product description: Meta Quest Virtual Reality Action-adventure game
  • Release Date: November 2025
  • Website: Marvel’s Deadpool VR
  • Product history: Client of ClutchplayGames as a consultant.
  • Team: Twisted Pixel Games and ClutchplayGames
  • Core Technologies: Unreal 4, c++, blueprints

The target hardware, Meta’s Quest 3, is an amazing piece of engineering. That said it still required a lot of work to fit a full AAA experience into what that hardware could handle.

My role was mostly related to baseline framerate optimization. There was another team on the project doing hitch optimization, so we had to interact frequently to avoid stepping on each other.
I was also involved in a few background game systems, like a shared in-game management system for “advertising” screens.

What If: An Immersive Story

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  • Product description: Apple Vision Pro augmented reality interactive experience
  • Release Date: May 2024
  • Website: What If: An Immersive Story
  • Product history: Client of ClutchplayGames as a consultant.
  • Team: ILMxLAB and ClutchplayGames
  • Core Technologies: Unreal, Xcode, c++, swift

My role was in Mac Unreal engine support. I handled a bunch of upgrade issues while moving from Unreal 4 to 5 on Mac host machines and iPad target devices. My general experience with the Apple developer ecosystem allowed me to ramp up on Swift and provide the team key insights on how Apple approaches development.

Additionally I implemented a rendering path to get movie files playing into a texture for use in the Mixed Reality pipeline.

Magic SpellSlingers

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  • Product description: Free-to-play game translating the Magic card‑game experience to a real‑time action‑RPG format for iPhone and Android devices.
  • Release Date: August 2022 (Sunset June 2024)
  • Website: Magic Spellslingers
  • Product history: Client of ClutchplayGames as a consultant.
  • Team: Pipeworks and ClutchplayGames
  • Core Technologies: Unity3d, C# server

A Unity3d game that had an authoritative server, sharing the same C# code in both. I was responsible for reworking a significant portion of the server core so that it mirrored what the client did.

Psychonauts 2, Mac port

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  • Product description: Port to Mac of recently developed title
  • Release Date: May 2022
  • Website: Wikipedia on Psychonauts 2
  • Product history: Client of ClutchplayGames as a consultant.
  • Team: ClutchplayGames
  • Core Technologies: Unreal 4, c++

This was an Unreal 4 project that was always planned to be released on the Mac platform, but was never tested on that platform during development. This led to many significant bugs and rendering errors. We were able to get significant help from the original developers on some of the issues.

This was a project where I had to rely on the Clutchplay team at large to nail down multiple rendering issues. My responsibilities were related to fixing Mac platform compile and packaging issues.

They were someones kid too

Suggestions for Parents

Last night an acquaintance told me how he was driving home from work. Another day, much like any other. This one, someone jumped in front of his car. He missed them thank Goodness, but only to look in the rear view mirror and see to his horror that person jump in front of another car and get hit. Later that night he cared enough to call the police a second time to find out how the person was.

They died on impact. Drugs were likely involved.

So many souls lost to this world. So many lives wrecked by other peoples focus only on themselves. Life is hard – we all know it. It is no secret why kids turn to drugs. We understand it, we have studied it. It comes down to life’s pressures and not enough support from the people around them.

So why do so many parents make it harder on their kids?

Ive got three kids myself. One wants to be a nurse at least, maybe a doctor, so they can help people. Another has an engineer, analytical, mindset.

And one wants to work at Chili’s restaurant.

Every one of them I am proud of, and I tell them that. They are not super human somehow, though one of them might be. But they are all in this world together, a world that often doesn’t care, but sometimes does.

A seemingly modern problem is how all these kids want to identify themselves as a different gender than they were born with. Girls want muscle car toys, boys want to play with dolls. Everyone wants to act like a cat or dog, since they see them in all the kids books, teaching us lessons on life.

Who does this hurt? The relationship between parent and child. That is it. And completely unnecessary. Parents tell their kids that’s just not what a girl does. Yes it is. If you want to whine about equality in pay, you first better check the fact that you are limiting them from the day they are born. Not the world, but you, parent.

Even with drugs we get the message wrong. Say no to drugs, but then tell them to take aspirin when they feel sick.

A clearer message is be careful what you put in your body. Some drugs help, but only if you take the right amount. Some drugs can get you addicted with a single try. Some drugs, like alcohol, can be moderated. And yet some of those drugs that are perfectly fine for one person (alcohol again) will addict and destroy the next person.

Parents have high hopes for their kids. Its understandable, we hope they will be better than us. But survival expects a lot to begin with. Warn them, prepare them. Do not make the bar higher than it has to be.