I build games.
Like lots of other developers, I like building games. I find it challenging on a number of levels (forcing me to constantly evolve my ideas, improve my technical skills & push the limits of my creativity).
Below are some table top, mobile, and voice games I've built & published through the years. If you like games and ideas like these, you should consider becoming an insider where you'll get exclusive access to a few more of my games and contests.
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Hero Brawl is a wrestling-themed card game where you compete for the HERO BRAWL TITLE BELT while trying to knock out all the cards in your opponents' hands.
Designed for two to twelve players, takes just a couple of minutes to learn, and only about five to fifteen minutes to play!
For detailed rules & what to do in special situations, please see how to play Hero Brawl.
Fubnub & Bad, Bad Turtle
One deck of cards, two different games, an unlimited amount of family fun!
Fubnub is a strategy based, trick-taking, card game primarily designed for team play. Loosely inspired by the game of Euchre. Designed for 1 to 4 players ages 10+. The average Fubnub play time is about 20 minutes. The winner is the first team to collect 7 of the 15 point cards.
Bad, Bad, Turtle is a quick paced, easy, game that requires you to have more luck than your opponents. Designed for 2 to 4 players ages 5+. The average play time is about 10 minutes. The winner is the player who avoids all the geckos and is the first to find the turtle.
Math Mania
Math Mania is a simple, but addictive, math game for your Alexa. To give it a try simply say "Alexa, start Math Mania" to your Alexa powered device.
For every correct answer you will earn points. Also, the faster you correctly answer a problem, the more points you earn. As you string a series of correct answers together, you will increase your personal streak and work towards higher levels. The difficulty of the problems you are presented with increases as you level up.
Slide Tap
If you love word puzzles but crave something a little more tactile and satisfying, Slide Tap is the game for you.
It's a clever mashup of two classic puzzle formats: the mental workout of a crossword and the hands-on challenge of a sliding tile puzzle. Read the clues, figure out the target words, then tap and slide tiles into position — one space at a time. Tiles flash green when they land exactly where they belong, giving you that perfect hit of instant feedback every time you make progress.
It sounds simple, and that's the beauty of it. The rules take about ten seconds to learn, but each puzzle keeps your brain genuinely engaged. You're not just filling in letters — you're thinking spatially, planning moves ahead, and untangling words that share the same grid. Across and Down answers compete for the same tiles, which means every move is a small strategic decision.
The whole thing wraps up in a polished casino-inspired look that makes it feel like a premium experience without the price tag. Whether you have two minutes or twenty, Slide Tap delivers a crisp, rewarding puzzle you'll actually want to come back to.
BODIMECA and the Four Bears
Bodimeca and the Four Bears is a board game where you use dice to move meeples and eliminate strategically played cards -- all to help settle, once and for all, who should be crowned "the best bear of them all".
There are two different ways to play, it's quick to learn, fast & engaging to play, and I think just the right mix of strategy and luck. In either version of the game you chose to play, you'll play as one of the four bears, and the object is to be the first one to make it all the way around the board.
You'll strategically play and assign cards to move your bear around the board while also relying on a bit of luck with dice rolls. Unlike traditional board games, every player is involved in every turn.
Word Mania
Word Mania is a simple word guessing game for your Alexa. To give it a try simply say "Alexa, play Word Mania" to your Alexa powered device.
The game will provide a clue and you try to guess the right word. For every correct answer you will earn points. As you string a series of correct answers together, you will increase your personal streak. The difficulty of the words you are presented with increases as you level up.
Memory Mania
Memory Mania is a simple memory game for your Alexa. To give it a try simply say "Alexa, play Word Mania" to your Alexa powered device.
The game will say a sequence of words and you try to repeat them. When you correctly remember what you've heard you'll earn points. As you string a series of correct answers together, you will increase your personal streak and the sequence will get longer and longer. The length of the sequence you are presented with increases as you correctly repeat what you hear.
Football Mania
Football Mania is a voice driven football game for your Alexa. To give it a try simply say "Alexa, play Football Mania" to your Alexa powered device.
The game includes kickoffs, basic offense and defense, as well as punts, field goals, interceptions, fumbles, sacks and many of the other exciting things you've come to know and love about the game of football. Take to the gridiron and see if you can run, pass, and kick your way to a Football Mania championship...it just takes practice!
Color Tap
Color Tap was a fast paced matching game I developed with my oldest son, Timothy Marshall, when he was in middle school.
In addition to being a way for him to earn money towards his first iPhone, I used the project to introduce him to many programming and product building concepts (hopefully helping him catch a bit of the builder's bug at a young age).
Game play involved the system presenting you with a color box in the top section of the screen and then a larger grid of random colors in the main part of the screen. You needed to find the box of matching color in the grid as quickly as possible and tap on it. You earned points for time and streaks and we had a number of different game modes.
TXT Game
txtGame was a text-based mobile adventure game.
I devloped the game to be a bit of an hommage to old-school games like Zork and to play with some Javascript based mobile dev. environments of the time (the app was eventually published using the phonegap framework). I also used the project to develop an open-source Javascript game engine I called Bearded Wookie