Game Developer · Unity · C#

Matt

Timmermans

Programmer · Game AI · Tool Developer

Solo indie developer and lifelong programmer. Passionate about game AI and tool making — from behaviour systems and dialog engines to fully shipped Steam games. Started coding at 11 with a compiler and a stack of programming books.

Steam Games Unity Assets
C / C++ C# Unity Game AI Behaviour Systems Emergent Systems
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Soothing Skies

2D Relaxation Platformer · Free · Browser

A gentle one-week platformer — pixel art, peaceful music, zero pressure. Click play to launch it directly in the browser.

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Soothing Skies · WebGL · Unity

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About

Origin Story

When I was 11 years old, my uncle handed me an IBM 386, a copy of Borland Turbo C/C++ 3.0, and a stack of programming books. No internet, no tutorials — just a compiler and the library. Completely self-taught: when I got stuck, I checked out another book. I made small games in C — no engines, no frameworks, just code from scratch. Text adventures were my first complete games.

I didn't just study programming — I became obsessed with computer science. Reading about AI, robotics, and artificial life. Fascinated by how complexity emerges through the interactions of simple rules — like Conway's Game of Life. That would stick with me and shape the programmer I became.

Years later, college introduced me to design patterns and Unity — two things that genuinely changed how I think about building games. I graduated top of my class with honours and was hired directly out of my internship at Diving Dove Studios. I became the team's tool maker, and that path led me to become a Unity asset developer after leaving the studio.

After publishing several assets I wanted to go back to making games. I self-published Space Survival and Record Rewind Repeat on Steam.

Game AI Emergent Systems Artificial Life Random Generation Behaviour Systems

Primarily a programmer. The craft is in the systems — behaviour engines, dialog logic, rule-based AI. Simple rules. Complex interactions. That's the goal.

Experience

Solo Indie Developer

logicandchaos

Self-published games and Unity assets. Record Rewind Repeat is the flagship release — fully working mechanics in 3 months, then polished for Steam.

Game Developer

Diving Dove Studios

Hired directly from internship. Shipped two commercial mobile titles for iOS, Android, and PC. Became the team's tool maker — work here seeded the Asset Store path.

Game Design & Development

College — Honours Graduate, Top of Class

Introduced to design patterns and Unity. Graduated top of class with honours. School projects seeded early versions of Epic Prose and Circules.

Steam

On Steam

Record Rewind Repeat
View on Steam itch.io Demo Website ↗
Featured Release · June 2025

Record Rewind Repeat

4D Puzzle Platformer · $9.99 · Solo Dev

Steam Featured Puzzle Platformer Time Manipulation

Playing Back to the Future 2 & 3 on NES, as a kid you would sometimes create a time duplicate that did everythign you previously done, touching one meant instant death! It was a small part of the game and I thought it could be a much bigger. Years later, The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom rekindled the idea. I started prototyping just for fun.

The project went so well, that it deserved a proper Steam release. I polished the visuals, adding player customization, achievements, and dancing — then reached out to Indie Game Buzz, who published a developer preview.

Record Rewind Repeat article

Indie Game Buzz · June 2025 · Developer Preview

Record Rewind Repeat — Developer Preview

Behind-the-scenes look at the design philosophy, time-loop mechanics, and the road from rough prototype to commercial Steam release.

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"A clever take on the time-loop mechanic that'll have you feeling brilliant one moment and clumsy the next." — Indie Game Buzz Editor
Space Survival
Steam Rogue-like Shooter

Space Survival

Rogue-like Space Shooter · $4.99 · Solo Dev · Dec 2021

Inspired by Space Hawk on Intellivision — a space miner stranded in the void after an asteroid collision, surviving by collecting ice shards and dodging black holes.

My first commercial Steam release, built over about a year. Leaning into the rogue-like aspects after feedback from a friend made it far more replayable. Every sprite rendered from 3D models in Daz3D — everything self-made except music and sound effects.

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Sci-fi Bundle

Both Steam games together — Space Survival + Record Rewind Repeat.

Get the Bundle — $10.06
Unity Asset Store

Unity Assets

Publisher Page ↗

Published

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Large Number Class

Arbitrary-precision numbers for clicker and management games. 3-digit arrays with full numerical naming. Math via 9's complement — filled a real gap in the Asset Store.

Asset Store
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Update Loop Manager

Singleton manager consolidating all MonoBehaviour Updates into one loop. Measurable performance gains in projects with many active scripts.

Asset Store
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Interactive Comic Maker

Fully Unity Canvas-based tool for interactive comics, slideshows, and narrative sequences. Drop-in visual storytelling for any Unity project.

Asset Store

In Development

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Fuzzy Brain

The culmination of years of work in game AI and Unity tool development — a rule engine for building complex behaviours through simple rules. Coming soon.

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LAC Debug Logger

A developer logging and debugging utility for Unity projects. Streamlines runtime diagnostics and error tracking. Coming soon.

Coming Soon
Articles

Game Developer · April 2022 · Technical Article

Creating Behaviours with Fuzzy Pattern Matching

A deep dive into using fuzzy pattern matching to drive complex, dynamic AI behaviours in Unity — inspired by Valve's GDC bark system. Covers conditions, acts, FSM vs FuSM, and real implementation code. The foundation behind Dynamic Behaviour and Ask/Tell Dialog.

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Text Adventures

The Original Open World

The medium that started it all

Text adventures are where I made my first complete games — and where I keep returning. There's a freedom you don't get anywhere else: no engine constraints, no art pipeline, no physics. The imagination is the only limit!

They're also one of the best ways to learn game programming. No graphics to worry about — just pure logic, pure structure, pure code.

My first text adventures were written in pure C — no engines or frameworks. Then in college came Epic Prose in C++. Now with Endless Prose, I'm treating the format as a serious creative medium in its own right — not a stepping stone.

Early
Days
Pure C
Self-Taught
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| C/C++ |
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First Text Adventures in C

Before college, before engines, before the internet — written on an IBM 386 in C. My best friend helped with design, a monster manual, and testing. I made two games, and you could even import your character from the first into the second.

College
Era
C++ · C# SE
itch.io
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| EPIC  |
| PROSE |
| RPG   |
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Epic Prose & Epic Prose SE

A college project — complete RPG written in C++ in two weeks. Avenge your people, level up, defeat the dragon. After college, rebuilt in C# as Special Edition: choice-selection input, a full menu system replacing text input, new quests, new enemies — everything the original ran out of time for.

Epic Prose on itch.io
Now
C# · Active
In Dev
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|ENDLESS|
| PROSE |
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Endless Prose

Inspired by Dwarf Fortress and GDC talks on random generation, I started work on Endless Prose — a game designed to last a lifetime. The scope required developing a full C# text adventure library. The imagination is still the only limit — the goal now is to prove it.

Endless Prose on itch.io
Demos & Game Jams

Dev Reel

Game jams, experiments, and demos. Just some ideas I've tried out and game jams I've participated in on itch.io. Scroll to browse the reel.

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