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Metatransformer Games
Founder · solo developer
Design, code, art direction, writing, audio and production on three titles in one shared setting. Plus the open-source stack underneath them.
3 titles1 shared world986 atlas entries
The studio hall Portfolio2011—2026aka Chubigans
Nick Bryant
Fifteen years across robotics, web and games. I take the projects that look too big to finish, and I finish them alone.
Software engineer · founder · solo game developer
$250Mcompany exitSharpSpring, where I was an early engineer
50+startups backedas an angel investor
24age at first exitfour companies since
1pair of handsdesign, code, art, audio
01Now
Metatransformer
A one-person game studio and an open-source lab, run together on purpose. The studio ships the games. The lab ships the tools the games needed.
Day to day I orchestrate a fleet of coding agents — fifteen or more at once, across three 20× Max plans. Writing the code stopped being the bottleneck. Scoping, reviewing and landing it is the job now.
Pulled toward
Procedural generationSimulationAlgorithmsRoboticsAI × art × business × code
Working stackTypeScriptPythonGDScriptC#React / Next.jsThree.jsGodotMongoDBPostgres
02Track record
Fifteen years
Robotics research, a nine-figure software outcome, an agency, a private equity fund, two operator seats, and a game studio. Most recent first.
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vn.ai
Cofounder · Head of R&D
Applied research and the product surface it turned into.
vn.ai03
awarded.ai
Early engineer · interim CTO
First engineering hire, then ran engineering while the company looked for a permanent CTO.
awarded.ai04
Search Fund Ventures
Cofounder
A lower-middle-market private equity fund. It buys small businesses that hold up in any economy, then rebuilds them around AI, automation and analytics. Conservative structures, margin of safety, operator alignment.
250+ deals reviewed3.9× average purchase multipleFund I closed
searchfundventures.co 05
SMB Investor Network
Cofounder
The co-investment side of the same thesis. Built the product, ran the marketing, and did the investing.
smbinvestornetwork.com06
Arcanium
Founder · from 2015
A boutique software engineering venture, grown to seven figures. Hard builds for people who had already been told it could not be done.
7-figure agency
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SharpSpring
Early engineer · from 2011
Marketing automation built to go directly at HubSpot, joined in its formative days. Sold to SMTP Inc for $15M, and again years later for $250M.
$15Mthen $250M
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NASA · university robotics lab
Robotics · AI research
Robotics lab as an undergrad, then NASA robotics. Undergraduate researcher in common-sense reasoning and classical AI. First place, 2012 senior project: an AI robotic chess set with a crane arm. Headed for an AI PhD, and left for startups instead.
First exit at 24
03Games
What I ship
Three titles in one shared setting. Design, code, art direction, writing, audio and production, by one person.
In development · Steam wishlist open
Valenfeld
The Lower Worlds I
- 30 hand-authored dungeons, procedural layouts
- 3 zones, named bosses, real loot tables
- Solo with AI-tuned companions, or online co-op
- Illustrated in-world atlas, 986 entries
- Windows and macOS
Don’t build a character. Build the party. A co-op dungeon-raiding ARPG where six classes combine as main and subclass, and the run is decided by how four jobs survive the same room.
Playable now · free, name your own price
Blind Magus
Shipped
- Released on itch.io
- Spell fusion as a readable choice
- Built and shipped solo
Ikaruga’s polarity, Vampire Survivors’ pressure, and a spell-fusion language you can read at a glance. Finished, released, and free.
In production
Lower Worlds: Awakening
The Lower Worlds II
- Shared canon with Valenfeld
- Godot
- Trailer live
The second title in the shared setting, built on the same lore canon Valenfeld consumes as a submodule.
04Open source
Tools I gave away
Every one of these exists because a project needed it and nothing on the shelf fit. Star counts are live figures, not rounded ones.
Metatransformer/artboardTypeScript
A local-first, MIT-licensed design editor. A design is a JSON file on your disk — diffable, scriptable, and renderable from a terminal. No account, no server, no paywalled export.
Open on GitHub ↗rondorkerin/gamestack25 ★ · Markdown
An agentic framework for building games with Claude Code. Cited, engine-agnostic game-design knowledge plus the process to apply it, wired to per-engine skill packs.
Open on GitHub ↗rondorkerin/showoffTypeScript
A desktop recording studio where every source stays its own lane. Screen, webcam, mic and system audio captured together, editable apart, cut into posted-ready clips locally.
Open on GitHub ↗rondorkerin/Genetic-Algorithm-PID-Controller-Tuner64 ★ · Python
A discrete PID controller whose gains are evolved rather than hand-tuned. Written in the robotics years and still the most-starred thing on the account.
Open on GitHub ↗rondorkerin/openclaw-clusterShell
Deploy and orchestrate clusters of agents over Docker and a Tailscale mesh. Hundreds of interconnected agents on any cloud.
Open on GitHub ↗Metatransformer/agentguard5 ★ · TypeScript
Guardrails for agent execution. Bounds what a running agent is allowed to touch, so a fleet can work unattended without a blast radius.
Open on GitHub ↗05How I work
Terms of engagement
Stated plainly so nobody wastes a call finding out.
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Hard problems only
I take the ones nobody else can solve and nobody else wants to. Hackers & Painters is the operating philosophy: code as art, shipped.
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Give me the greenfield
The massive, faintly unreasonable project that changes the game if it lands. I do not do well on maintenance, and I do not pretend otherwise.
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Whole vertical slices
Design through art through code through release. Stubbed half-features are not evidence of anything.
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Fleet, not keystrokes
Fifteen-plus agents at once. Orchestration, adversarial review, and landing the work are where the leverage is now.
06Built in the browser
Three exhibits
Real-time WebGL, running on this domain. The same content as the page you are reading, presented as a place you can walk through.
The Hall
One continuous Three.js world on a single rail. Both games, the devlog wall, and the site itself as an exhibit.
Enter →Resume, in 3D
The same facts as milled plates on a steel spine, over a Wolfram automaton that prints itself on load.
Enter →Field
A reaction-diffusion volume you can reach into, raymarched and simulated live in the browser.
Enter →The traditional way
I don’t fill in job applications. If you have the project that is too big, write to me directly.
nick@metatransformer.com