September 2025 - present
Tethered
Unreal Engine 5 action rogue-lite prototype focused on modular combat, encounter, travel, and persistence systems.
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Portfolio
Nicholas Reardon
Gameplay and Systems Programmer focused on Unreal Engine, C++, modular gameplay architecture, and designer-friendly content workflows.
I build modular gameplay systems in Unreal Engine, with a focus on where state lives, how systems communicate, and how designers author content without needing new systems code.
Selected Work
Featured projects
2025 game jam
Last Oasis
A browser-playable Godot platformer with a state-machine character controller, traversal abilities, and jam-focused authoring tools.
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Three-day game jam
A Totally Normal Bike Ride
A Godot physics prototype about balancing a unicycle across telephone wires, built for a three-day game jam.
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About
Gameplay systems built around how people actually author content.
My strongest work comes from Tethered, a Lyra-based Unreal Engine action rogue-lite prototype, and from game jams where I build gameplay systems, traversal mechanics, and small authoring tools under real production pressure.
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