Hard Break
01Hard Break is an eight-ball pool game for the Sega Mega Drive, with seven venues, a CPU opponent and full-table physics running on a 16-bit console from the late 80s.
- Type
- Sega Mega Drive - SGDK
- Year
- 2026
- Status
- In progress
Designer
thinker
tinkerer
I co-run Little Thunder, designing products, interfaces and websites. This is where I keep side projects, experiments and notes that don't fit neatly anywhere else.
Events
All events → Impromptu 
Ormeau Labs, Belfast
12:30–13:30
An informal lunch-and-learn for designers, creatives and makers exploring where AI and design meet.
Register for freeSelected Projects
All projects →Footi AR
02Footi AR is an in-progress augmented-reality match report for Footi, turning a finished football match into a spatial replay you can explore on your phone.
- Type
- Augmented Reality - Three.js
- Year
- 2026
- Status
- In progress
HyperDrift
03HyperDrift is an endless synthwave racer that runs entirely in the browser. No download, no install, no asset files. The world, the obstacles and even the soundtrack are generated live in code.
- Type
- Game - WebGL
- Year
- 2026
- Status
- Launched
MegaWord
04MegaWord is a Sega Mega Drive homebrew Wordle demake built with SGDK, custom pixel art workflows and real 16-bit hardware constraints. Now at v2.0, with twelve animated backgrounds, an original soundtrack and a rebuilt word list.
- Type
- Sega Mega Drive - SGDK
- Year
- 2026
- Version
- v2.0
- Status
- Launched
Writing
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MegaWord v2.0: Everything That Changed
Four months after shipping MegaWord for the Sega Mega Drive, I rebuilt most of it. Twelve animated backgrounds, an original soundtrack, a repaired word list, and a bug that only showed up on a real CRT.
Something Old. Something New
A quick overview of my talk at the first Impromptu, on what happens when you aim AI at old hardware.
Introducing Impromptu
A new informal lunch-and-learn for designers, creatives and makers exploring where AI and design meet, hosted with Chris Armstrong at Ormeau Labs in Belfast on Thursday 10 September.
