Software Engineer · Game Developer
Engineering playable worlds with AI.
I bring software engineering, simulation and AI-assisted workflows together to build interactive experiences.
15+ years software engineering · Unity · Simulation · AI-assisted production
Contact Rick →I build playable experiences.
A Unity horror project inspired by Hong Kong folklore and abandoned rural environments, combining atmospheric exploration, bounded encounters, enemy AI and modern real-time rendering.
A hospital-management game where patient flow, staffing, diagnosis, treatment and finance interact as one simulation — with automated agents testing whether the economy remains viable under different player strategies.
Balance experiments: automated runs track survival time, cash, reputation and win rate to expose difficulty and economy problems before manual playtesting.
An experimental Unity racing prototype exploring voice as a gameplay input — from microphone detection and recognition states to action feedback and cooldown behaviour.
Proof in numbers
Why I keep building
I started making games because I wanted to turn imagined worlds into something people could experience.
Software engineering became my career, but that instinct never disappeared.
Now I’m bringing those worlds together: the engineering discipline I’ve built over the years and the creative freedom that drew me to games. AI is one way I’m exploring how smaller teams can build more ambitious experiences.
Keep learning. Keep building. Keep ideas playable.
My approach
Software doesn’t have to feel like software.
I use game-system thinking, visual feedback and interactive 3D to make complex operations easier to understand — whether I’m building a gameplay system, a simulation or production software.
01 · Clarity
Turn workflows, data and system states into experiences people can understand at a glance.
02 · Interaction
Use clear goals, responsive feedback and game design principles to make every action feel purposeful.
03 · Delivery
Take ideas from prototype to production across Unity, web platforms and real-time 3D.
I deliver production software.
Production systems, modern web platforms and business workflows built for real users.
Modernising a content-driven website with a headless WordPress and Astro architecture, improving technical SEO and performance foundations while integrating analytics and campaign tracking.
AstroHeadless WordPressTechnical SEO Business application · 2025–26Real-time messaging, task workflows and a dispute Resolution Centre in a large Laravel/Vue production codebase, protected by PHPUnit and Vitest regression tests.
LaravelVue · TypeScriptRegression testing Systems integration · 2016–23Passport-photo face tracking for HK Immigration, a document-capture migration for HK Customs within six months, and a Retek REST API for Watsons.
.NET · JavaOCR & captureUAT → DR Fintech · 2010–12 · 2023–25Led the backend of a loan management system and built web and iOS trading interfaces fed by live WebSocket market data.
PHP · CodeIgniterWebSocketsSwift · VueAI-assisted production
AI can generate ideas and assets quickly. The harder problem is turning those outputs into reliable, editable and performant game content.
I’m experimenting with AI agents, Unity automation, validation and simulation to make that production layer more dependable.
The goal isn’t to automate creativity away. It’s to shorten the distance between an idea and a working game while keeping engineering discipline, performance and creative control.
Experiments in game systems, simulation and AI-assisted production.
Software engineer and game developer — based in Liverpool, with roots in Hong Kong.
Games came first: experiments as a teenager, then educational titles in C++ and DirectX. After that came more than a decade of commercial software across web, enterprise, fintech and public services.
Now those paths are coming back together, with that engineering foundation applied to gameplay systems, simulation and AI-assisted game production.
How can small teams use AI and better tools to build ambitious games without sacrificing reliability, performance or creative control?
Career journey
2007
Early game development
C++ · DirectX · OpenGL · Lua
2008–2026
Commercial software engineering
Web · Enterprise · Fintech · Government · Realtime systems
Today
Games · simulation · AI-assisted production
Unity · Gameplay systems · Simulation · AI-assisted production
Skills
Work with me
Open to software engineering and Unity/gameplay opportunities, as well as collaborations in simulation and AI-assisted game production.
rickchow.uk@gmail.com
