Games & Projects

Games

Dungeon Train

A Minecraft mod where you ride an endless, procedurally generated train through the overworld, the Nether and the End. Fight your way carriage to carriage and see how far you get on one life.

Minecraft Adventure Roguelike

Find My Phone

A VR game for Meta Quest where you search for your lost phone. Available on the Oculus Store.

VR Meta Quest

Dungeon Train VR

The original Dungeon Train: a procedurally generated train for infinite looting in VR on Meta Quest, inspired by Adventure Time's Dungeon Train episode. Reached #2 paid game on SideQuest, with 170+ reviews averaging 4.5 stars.

VR Quest Roguelike

Carked It! Online

A multiplayer party card game where players plan their life, death, and afterlife. Propose ideas for each other across three decks and compete to become the Legendary Death Doula.

Multiplayer Party Cards

Video Chess

Play chess online face to face, with your opponent's webcam showing through the board. Or take on a Stockfish-powered AI with adjustable ELO (100-3200). Features Chess960, timers and game history.

Video Multiplayer AI Stockfish

Australian Dream

A Unity WebGL game exploring the Australian Dream. Built with Unity and playable directly in the browser.

Unity WebGL

Game Jams & Early Games

I've been making games since I was 14. Some took a few hours, others half a decade. More on my games page →

Detective GPT

A multiplayer VR murder mystery party game. One player murders another, then Detective Gerald-Patrick-Thompson, an AI, weighs the evidence and decides who did it. The all-knowing AI is always right, even when it's wrong.

VR AI Multiplayer Global Game Jam 2023

JudgeGPT

A multiplayer AI courtroom game where an AI judge decided your fate. Featured live chat, AI-generated voice narration, case archives, and spectator mode. No longer running.

AI Multiplayer GPT Voice

Hot House

A short narrative VR escape room. You are trapped in a luxurious hot-house against your will. How did you end up here? Who are you? And what does the Mafia have to do with it?

VR Escape room In development

Holy Burger

Hired by the God of the Universe to fix the world they broke for fun, you search a maze for the pieces to build the ultimate symbol of wisdom and power: a burger.

VR Global Game Jam 2020 Medellín

CryptoKitties AR

Take your CryptoKitties out of their blockchain universe and walk them around the real world in augmented reality.

AR Blockchain

Undead Mayhem

Survive waves of the undead in this action-packed game.

Action

Castle Rush

Virtual reality vs reality: up to three VR archers defend a castle while 30+ people in the room attack them from their phones. Played in pubs, malls and at Google's Sydney Christmas party.

VR Mobile Party 2015

Any Fighter

A 2D fighting game where half the battle is won in training before the fight. Made in 48 hours, playable in the browser.

WebGL Global Game Jam 2016 Berkeley

Tremor Town

Build a town on the cheap, in a town famous for its earthquakes. Runner-up for best game in Sydney, then released on the iOS App Store.

iOS Global Game Jam 2013

Growth

Made with three fellow first-year computer science students and an AIE artist. Awarded Best Overall Game at Wollongong.

Global Game Jam 2012 Award

White Flower

Team Blackwolf's entry, winning Who Dares Wins at the Brisbane 48-hour game making challenge.

48hr challenge 2012 Award

Cold Hard Evidence

Themes: winter, cheat and shoot. A private eye photographs cheating husbands in the snow, defrosting the camera lens for a clean shot. Made in 24 hours; won the UoW Winter Game Jam.

Game jam 2012 Award

Brennan Hatton's Bouncer

My first mobile game, designed in high school at 15 and later released on iOS.

iOS Mobile

Papercopter

Inspired by my high-school doodles: fly a helicopter and gun down the attackers to protect the house. Early-2000s flash style.

2D Early work

Violence and Helicopters

Unfinished, but with smooth, fun animation and a surprise at the end. Made between high school and uni.

2D Early work

More from the archive: The Little Pixel Who Couldn't Love, David's Disco Labyrinth, Apocalyptic Overload, Tank Game, Tank Strategy, Box Climber, Box Builder, Car Game, The Towers (Hackagong winner, Best Overall Design), Yolo, VR Shoe Throwing, Infinite Train prototype, Erin's Space, VR Drums, VR for Support Workers, Yours and Owls VR360 installation, Antarctica Experience, Meta 1 SDK demos.

AI & Creative Projects

MindfulAI

A mindfulness and meditation tool powered by AI. Uses speech recognition and text-to-speech for guided experiences.

AI Mindfulness Speech

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AI Roleplaying

Explorations in AI-powered roleplaying experiences and interactive storytelling.

AI Roleplay

AI in Highschool Biases

Using AI to combat bias and bullying in high school. Proof of concept, 2023.

AI Education

Equal Reality VR Training

VR empathy training from Equal Reality, the company I co-founded. Step into someone else's shoes and experience bias first-hand. About Equal Reality →

Everyday Inclusion

A three-part interactive journey through unconscious bias, microaggressions and intersectionality.

Quest Unconscious bias Race

Unpacking Bias

Immersive bias and allyship training, delivered remotely during COVID.

Web Remote Allyship

Think Ahead

Culturally competent advance care planning and end-of-life conversations.

Aged care Culture Health

Introverts & Extroverts

What it feels like to struggle to be heard in a room full of extroverts.

Inclusion Leadership

In Groups & Out Groups

Left out of the loop, then dismissed for asking to be included.

Inclusion Gender

A Seat at the Table

The decision was made while you weren't in the room.

Maternity leave Gender

Challenging Conversations

Live through a harsh performance review, then run it yourself.

Leadership Performance

Just Another Domestic

Respond to a domestic violence call as a NSW Police officer.

Police Situational awareness

Finding Common Ground

LGBT+ discrimination at a customer service desk, from a real employee's story.

LGBT+ Customer service

Power & Exclusion

A manager abusing his position, and his physical dominance.

Power Leadership

Gender & Disability

Equal Reality's first and most-run experience.

Vive Rift Gender

Unacceptable Bias & Behaviour

Sexual harassment, gender bias and cultural bias, from the victim's perspective.

Defence Harassment

Metaverse Classrooms

A multiplayer VR learning space for empathy training.

Multiplayer Quest

Review AI

An AI to help you explore how you feel after stepping into someone else's shoes.

AI Reflection

Respectful Conversations

Respectful-conversations training, piloted with a global bank.

Banking Conversations

A Day in a Lifetime

A VR series for Mayo Clinic's nurse and social-worker leaders, with two peer-reviewed papers on its effect.

Healthcare Nursing Racism

Diversity in Clinical Studies

Helping diverse communities stay in clinical trials.

Healthcare Clinical trials Web

Included@Optus

Bias in the meeting room and on the shop floor.

Telco Retail Microaggressions

Live My Experience

Disability awareness at the beach and the shopping centre.

Quest Disability Local government

Care Givers

Caregiver training at an older patient's bedside.

Aged care Healthcare

Google DEI Training

Four scenarios from real incidents at Google, studied in a peer-reviewed CHI paper.

Quest Bystander Research

Speaking with Good Judgement

Hospital staff rehearse speaking up, inside the rooms they'll have the conversation in.

Healthcare Speaking up Pico

Speak to Me Normally

Social anxiety at work, felt from the inside.

Mental health Anxiety

VR Experiences

The Transreality Ball Pit

A mixed-reality installation blending physical and virtual ball pits, with Daniel Breda. First shown as Art As Activity at Project Contemporary ArtSpace Wollongong (2021), then installed in 10 locations around Australia.

VR Installation

Marco Polo

A VR experience inspired by the classic game of Marco Polo.

VR Social

Tea(R)ism

A contemplative VR tea ceremony experience.

VR Art

Organic/Mechanical Space

A VR exploration of organic and mechanical environments.

VR Art

Antipodes VR

A virtual reality experience exploring the concept of antipodal points on Earth.

VR Exploration

Dr Empathy

VR empathy for disability care, built with design thinking. Won the UN Sustainable Development Goals hackathon, plus 2nd place and best teamwork at Thailand Friendly Design Social Inclusion.

VR Hackathon Award

Australian Art Exhibit

A VR gallery of work by John Brack, Albert Namatjira, Trevor Nickolls and Brett Whiteley. With Daniel Breda, made at Kingdom Hack 2016.

VR Art 2016

Nan Tien Temple Mindfulness

VR to teach meditation and mindfulness, with Nan Tien Temple.

VR Mindfulness

Coachella Music Visualization

Interactive music visualization at Coachella, with Intel.

Music Interactive

Other Projects

Book Freediving Retreats

The home of freediving travel. Browse, compare, and book freediving retreats worldwide — from training programs to whale encounters.

Travel Freediving Booking

Mortal Me

Thoughtful, meaningful end-of-life planning. Capture what matters most, in your own words and on your own timeline, starting with who you are rather than your assets, so your loved ones understand the heart behind your choices.

Web End-of-life planning