Game developer · Charlotte, NC

I make games that feel good to touch.

Cozy worlds, tiny arcade games and calm, useful apps. I design, build and ship them myself, and I sweat how every tap and bounce feels.

NextSoft Landing: A Blob Life, my first commercial game, is coming to Steam.
FreelanceGame development for a story-learning app for kids.
LiveTwo apps on Google Play and five games you can play in a browser today.

See the games Work with me

Soft Landing: A Blob Life, in-engine footage

Coming to SteamSolo dev

Soft Landing: A Blob Life

You're small, a bit squishy, and you just moved to a pond town. Meet the neighbours, help out around town, and wander out to beaches, snowfields, rainforest and glowing caves at your own pace. There's nothing to fail and no clock to beat.

“the town posted a listing. you answered.”

Squash-and-stretch in code. Every character and prop wobbles with procedural animation instead of rigs, so the whole world moves like it's made of the same soft stuff.
A 3D pipeline for a team of one. Concept images become models in Meshy, then my own tools scale, pivot, place and check them in batches so five biomes stay consistent.
Robot playtesters. Capture harnesses fly through the game, record footage and flag problems like props you have to clip into to use.

Engine: Unity (C#)
Platform: Steam, PC
Role: Solo developer: design, code, story, art direction, trailers
Status: In development. Steam page coming soon.

The blob paddles a wooden canoe across the pond

A neighbour in a sun hat and flowered shirt goes ice fishing in the snow biome

A giant tree and hanging vines in the rainforest biome

The blob holds a lantern in a dark cave lit by crystals

Games

Play these right now

All free, all in the browser, and all built to work on a phone. Hover a card to see it move.

Two spinning tops collide in a floodlit stadium, throwing green sparks

Play free

RIPIT ARENA

Spinning-top battles with real physics.

3D spinner combat with online multiplayer, local two-player, and The Gauntlet, a roguelite solo run. Plays on desktop, controller or phone.

three.js · Cloudflare Workers · WebSockets

Play at ripitarena.app

A ball rolls down a drawn track printed in yellow, pink and blue risograph ink

Play free

Riso Rider

Draw a track on paper. Then ride it.

A physics puzzler with 50 levels. Place lines, ropes, wind and boosts with limited ink, then ride what you drew. Every scene is printed by a risograph simulator I wrote.

JavaScript · WebGL · Canvas

Play Riso Rider

Pixel-art Dan in a pink cap outside the Gulp-N-Go gas station, with the sheriff pulling up

Play freeAdult humor

Florida Dan

Dan is not a Florida Man.

A pixel comedy about a man with court in four days and no self-control. Fishing fights, gator wrestling, courtroom objections, and a newspaper that prints your worst moments.

JavaScript · Canvas · WebGL shaders

Play Florida Dan

Play freeGoogle Play in testing

GLOVEBOX

A road-trip arcade in your pocket.

Twelve one-thumb games plus out-the-window games like license plates and car bingo. Works offline in the back seat, with over 1,000 critters to collect.

JavaScript · Canvas · PWA

Play at glovebox.quest

Press it

THE NUMBER

One number. Going up.

A deadpan parody of internet infrastructure: everyone shares one counter and every press is archived forever. It passed 45,000 presses in its first week, so I built bot detection, rate limits and six-hourly backups fast.

Cloudflare Workers · Durable Objects · R2

Press it at rounded.lol

Apps

Calm tools for everyday life

Offline-first apps with big tap targets, readable type and no clutter. Two are live on Google Play under my label, Lotl Labs.

On Google Play

Braindump

Messy notes, sorted.

Type everything in one breath: groceries, plans, half-ideas. Braindump files each piece where it belongs and learns how you sort. Works offline, speaks seven languages, syncs if you want it to, and has no ads.

PWA · Android (TWA) · Firebase

Google Play braindump.fyi

On Google Play21+

buddi

A field guide to what works for you.

Decode any cannabis label in plain English, look up terpenes and strains, and keep a journal that learns your preferences. It can also read a product's lab report (COA) from a PDF.

PWA · Android (TWA) · PDF parsing

Google Play buddi.my

Private builds and early work

Private

Adultish

Chores, as a two-player game.

A household app for my partner and me: duties, habits, coins, power-ups and a weekly showdown, wrapped in painted fantasy art. Just for our home, for now.

React · Firebase

Early concept

Sidewalk Safari

A shared field journal for neighborhood pets.

Log the dogs, cats and birds you meet with photos, ratings and map pins, and keep a journal with friends. An early build I plan to come back to.

PWA · Netlify Functions · accounts

How I work

Small steps, real devices, lots of play

Ship early, then keep shipping

Braindump is on its 143rd version and GLOVEBOX its 92nd. I get things onto real phones fast, then improve them in small, tested releases.

Tuned by hand

I playtest everything myself and adjust in small batches until it feels right in the hand. Readable text, big tap targets and calm motion are part of the design from day one.

AI is part of my toolkit

I build with AI coding assistants (Claude, Codex) and image and 3D tools (Gemini, Meshy). I make the design calls, review every change, write the tests, and label AI-made art wherever stores and clients ask for it.

Toolbox · Unity · C# · JavaScript · HTML Canvas · WebGL · three.js · Web Audio · PWAs · Android (TWA) · Firebase · Cloudflare Workers · Netlify · Python · Playwright · Blender

About

Hi, I'm Tyler.

I'm a game developer in Charlotte, North Carolina. I started out building tools for the retail company I work for (its online store and inventory reports) and for my own home, and I never stopped.

Now I make games full of small, soft details and apps that make everyday life a little calmer. My first commercial game, Soft Landing: A Blob Life, is headed to Steam.

Work with me

I take on freelance game and app work: kids' and family games, web and mobile games, prototypes and playable pitches.

tgiamberini95@gmail.com

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