Misty Forest Run
★ featuredA low-poly endless runner set at dawn. Help a little fox dash through a misty forest, leaping over rocks and tree stumps for as long as you can.
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Hi, I’m Randy.
I build games, data platforms, and AI-powered tools. This is where I share my portfolio, small research projects, and things I learn along the way.
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Game Development
Gameplay systems, engines, and the craft of making things fun.
Data Engineering
Pipelines, warehouses, and platforms that make data useful.
AI
Applied machine learning and AI-assisted workflows.
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Finn's Reef Run
★ featuredA cheerful, fast, family-friendly side-scrolling shark adventure. Slide to swim, gobble up little fish for points, chain combos, and dodge the ocean's hazards — all wrapped in a hand-drawn flat-vector art style with a jolly sea-shanty soundtrack. Installs to your phone's home screen and plays
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Jungle Jump
★ featuredHop a cheeky monkey along the treetops, leap the gaps, dodge the snakes — and run as far as you dare.
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Game Development
Godot 4
Tutorial
Build a 2D Endless Runner in Godot 4 — Part 3: Game States, Score, and Obstacles
A three-state game loop — IDLE, PLAYING, GAME OVER — wired up with a score counter, a random obstacle spawner that ramps speed, and an auto-reset that needs zero player input.
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Godot 4
Tutorial
Build a 2D Endless Runner in Godot 4 — Part 2: Character Animation and Camera Lock
A running fox, a spritesheet animation loop, a physics floor that never has gaps, and a camera Y-lock that keeps the parallax background perfectly still when the player jumps.
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Game Development
Godot 4
Tutorial
Build a 2D Endless Runner in Godot 4 — Part 1: The Parallax Scene
Two scripts and five PNG layers are all it takes to build a smooth infinitely scrolling parallax background from scratch — no built-in ParallaxBackground node required.
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AI
Data Engineering
What Does AI Video Generation Actually Cost? Real Numbers From a Production Pipeline
A full cost breakdown across image generation, video clips, and 3D models — with a per-scene budget estimate for an 8-shot story. The numbers will surprise you.
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Game Development
AI
Data Engineering
AI 3D Generation for Game Assets: Draft Fast, Commit Slow
A two-stage AI 3D pipeline — cheap Trellis drafts for shape approval, Hunyuan3D for production GLBs with full PBR. Real numbers, real test results, and the rule that stopped me burning money on bad geometry.
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