Briar Hunt

Portfolio · 2022 to 2026

Work index.

Software, game systems, worlds, and live experiences.

Professional work

Products & live work.

Direction, implementation, and operations across persistent products and live experiences.

Live product · 2024 to 2025

Live-service direction

Project direction across design, narrative, art, engineering, implementation, and live iteration.

Project direction · game systems · implementationView project

Live experience · 2022

Creator event operations

A multi-day experience built and operated for more than forty creators and a live audience.

Experience design · development · live operationsView project

Desktop software · Current

Dawn Launcher / Client

A standalone Java and Kotlin Compose product maintained by a two-developer launcher team.

Senior software engineering · Java · Kotlin · ComposeView project

Independent systems & experiences

Independent software and interactive work.

Three case studies drawn from their interfaces, source architecture, implementation stacks, and operating constraints.

Snowmie Mission Control desktop interface

Realtime desktop system · Source private

Snowmie

A desktop control system for a realtime voice character, coordinating streamed audio, interruption handling, semantic memory, broadcast context, and live performance interfaces.

Stack
Electron · TypeScript · React · Three.js · SQLite + vector search · Twitch · OBS · VTube Studio
Format
Electron desktop application · Mission Control operator interface
View project
Digital Carnival tarot interface

Interactive web experience · 2025

Digital Carnival

An audiovisual tarot interface built around spatial navigation, animated poster panels, three-card readings, custom WebGL shaders, Web Audio, and responsive fallback modes.

Stack
React · TypeScript · Vite · raw WebGL / GLSL · custom audio and interaction systems
Format
Interactive audiovisual website
View project
Athena Rampancy desktop control surface

Experimental systems architecture · Source private

Athena Rampancy

A single-user desktop system exploring cost-governed model routing, semantic memory, knowledge retrieval, proactive scheduling, voice, and inspectable operational state.

Stack
Bun · TypeScript · Hono · SolidJS · Tauri · Drizzle / SQLite · ONNX · Three.js
Format
Local services + desktop control surface
View project

Repository map

Codebases inside the cases.

The larger projects span more than one repository. This keeps the JavaScript and TypeScript work visible without pretending each repo is a separate case study.

  • Interactive web experience

    Digital Carnival

    amoastersite

    Spatial tarot navigation, a custom shader stage, Web Audio, and responsive fallback modes.

    StackReact 18 · TypeScript 5 · Vite 5 · raw WebGL / GLSL · Web Audio

    Source privateOpen case
  • Matcha web application

    Bazaar browser client

    bazaar-web

    Typed market routes, live client events, analytics, and custom asset rendering.

    StackReact 19 · TypeScript 5.9 · Vite 8 · TanStack Query · Radix UI · Recharts · Three.js

    Source privateOpen case
  • Documentation and tools

    Matcha docs & authoring

    briar-docs

    Documentation, server-rendered admin surfaces, and nineteen browser authoring tools.

    StackAstro 5 · Starlight · React 19 · TypeScript · Blockly · React Flow · Three.js

    Source privateOpen case
  • Desktop, local web, and OBS tool

    Lyricist 2.0

    spotify-lyrics-viewer

    Current 2.0 work covers synced lyrics, local-audio input, timing tools, broadcast overlays, and visual profiles.

    StackTypeScript · Express · React · Three.js · WebSocket · Tauri 2 / Rust

    Source private

Game systems

Mechanics in context.

Selected professional systems shown without client names or identifying production material.

One case study · Four connected records

Selected game systems

The case study keeps the systems together so their economies, ecologies, progression, and multiplayer consequences can be read in context.

Open case study

Economy · endgame

Expeditions

Replayable procedural runs built around controlled entry, varied rooms, and deliberate reward choice.

World ecology · encounters

Dens

Local fauna, resources, and rare variants turn a generic encounter into part of its environment.

Progression · combat

Primal Infusion

A timed combat ability extended through crafting, exploration, and social progression.

Emergent multiplayer

Temporal Anomaly

A shared region whose services, events, and crises respond to accumulated player activity.

Worlds, tools & rules

Independent work.

Worldbuilding, rendering infrastructure, combat tooling, and playable tabletop material.

Lands of Erosia title artwork

World design · custom systems

Lands of Erosia

A persistent action-RPG world for roughly twenty-five creators: 450+ integrated packages, more than fifty adaptations, and two custom systems.

Cover of The Sibyl tabletop subclass
Cover of Heir of the Gods tabletop subclass

Published tabletop design

The Sibyl & Heir of the Gods

Two playable subclasses combining rules structure, progression, theme, and balance.

Rendering infrastructure

Veil

Co-development of model, framebuffer, shader, post-processing, depth, and animation tooling.

View source

Combat framework

Alembic

A data-driven system for damage types, elemental reactions, status effects, and authored combat behaviour.