CarnivalInterface · direction · experience. A tarot-led audiovisual interface with spatial navigation, custom shaders, sound, and responsive modes. React · TypeScript · raw WebGL · GLSL · Web Audio.
Matcha!Product · systems · operations. Thirteen modular products, plus their authoring tools, documentation, services, and releases. Astro · React · TypeScript · Fastify · JVM runtimes.
Desktop clientProduct · systems · interface. A standalone Kotlin Compose desktop launcher and client, built by a two-person launcher team. Java · Kotlin · Compose · desktop product.
AthenaSystems · interface. A local-first desktop study in governed routing, structured memory, tools, and operable state. Bun · Hono · SolidJS · Tauri · SQLite.
SnowmieSystems · interface · operations. A realtime desktop control system joining voice, interruption, memory, broadcast state, and output. Electron · React · TypeScript · WebSockets · SQLite.
Live serviceDirection · systems · operations. Project leadership across design, narrative, art, engineering, production, and live iteration. Roadmap · production · implementation · operations.
Game systemsSystems · direction · experience. Four anonymised system studies covering economy, progression, encounters, and emergent multiplayer. System design · world design · technical direction.

Interface · direction · experienceDigital Carnival

A tarot-led audiovisual interface with spatial navigation, custom shaders, sound, and responsive modes.

React · TypeScript · raw WebGL · GLSL · Web AudioView project

Portfolio · 2022 to 2026

BriarHunt

Software · game systems
worlds · live experiences

Edinburgh, Scotland ◆ Independent + studio work

Begin the walkthrough

Act 01 · Independent product suite · Active

Matcha!

Thirteen modular products, plus the browser tools, documentation, services, and release pipeline around them.

Journey authoring · React Flow · TypeScript · JVM runtimes

Enter the project

Act 02 · Interactive web experience · 2025

Digital
Carnival

A tarot-led audiovisual stage with spatial navigation, animated poster panels, custom shaders, sound, and responsive fallbacks.

React · raw WebGL · GLSL · Web Audio

Enter the carnival

Act 03 · Realtime desktop system

Snowmie

A desktop control system keeping streaming audio, interruption, memory, broadcast state, and output in one monitored runtime.

Electron · React · TypeScript · WebSockets · SQLite

Enter Mission Control

Act 04 · Experimental systems architecture

Athena
Rampancy

A local-first desktop system for governed model routing and structured memory, with retrieval, scheduling, voice, and state kept inspectable.

Bun · Hono · SolidJS · Tauri · SQLite

Enter the system

Act 05 · Current studio work · Anonymised

Standalone
launcher / client

One of two engineers working on a standalone desktop launcher and client.

Java · Kotlin · Compose · desktop product

Enter the project

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The rest of the work.

More game systems, live operations, creator events, rendering infrastructure, published rules, worlds, and smaller software projects.

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Technical records

Read the work by discipline.

The portfolio above is organised by project. These four records regroup it by implementation, JVM systems, game and interaction design, and production practice.

Four bodies, one portfolio. The sphere re-indexes the same work around the selected discipline.

About

Briar Hunt

I'm based in Edinburgh. I make software, game systems, worlds, live experiences, and the tools behind them. My current studio work is a standalone Java/Kotlin Compose launcher and client.

Current · Senior Software Engineer
NDA-protected desktop product

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