Games &Fun Stuff

What I make for fun, and for the people at my table. Turn each box over and knock the loot around.

the Merrimack Valley card game
friends & family test group
for a table
of four
45scard game
45sdeal me in
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a card game

45s

The Merrimack Valley card game, built so a table of four plays it exactly the way their family did, on a phone.

  • Every house rule is a setting. Pick the table you grew up at and the game holds everyone to it.
  • The cards you can legally play rise and the rest dim. One sentence above your hand says why.
  • One setting redraws every card and cue so shape and text do the work colour used to do.
on a private test group
HangTimetv & books
HangTimefor two
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a household library

HangTime

A shared library for the TV, movies and books a household is keeping up with. It shows what’s back and picks one for tonight.

  • Each of you keeps your own progress on a show, so one can be three episodes ahead and nothing gets spoiled.
  • Say how much time you have and your mood. It picks one thing from your own library and says why.
  • Headlines about the shows you follow that might spoil them stay covered until you open them.
your inbox becomes your trip
in progress
Fernwehtravel
Fernwehin progress
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travel

Fernweh

A travel chief of staff for a frequent flyer. It reads her airline mail, keeps trips straight and ranks her options when plans change.

  • It checks the airline’s email signature before trusting a message. Lookalikes are kept apart.
  • When a flight goes wrong, it ranks her options and gives the reason for each.
  • A plan takes effect only when she approves the whole plan. Booking and spending are still to come.
playable build, in progress
Wickworka city
Wickworknarrative rpg
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a narrative RPG

WICKWORK

A narrative RPG in a vertical city that never tears anything down and builds over its dead.

  • Walk a thousand-year-old city where light and mourning are sold by the tariff.
  • Play a world that simulates itself under the story.
stage coming soon
Hum Musicone library
Hum Musicall services

a music library

Hum Music

One music library across every service, without the lock-in.

  • The same song on two services plays as one track, and it only says “playing” once it plays.
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the whole home, from one app
stage coming soon
Humhome
Humone app

home control

Hum

Whole-home control from one app.

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the studio

Aether Studios

My game studio, run as teams of AI agents. Each team owns the art, code and audio for one part of a game.

On the shelf

Where each one stands, and since when.

45s
stage
a friends & family test group
since
summer 2026
HangTime
stage
in daily use, for two people
since
June 2026
Fernweh
stage
in progress
since
July 2026
Wickwork
stage
a playable build, in progress
Hum Music
stage
coming soon
Hum
stage
coming soon
Aether Studios
makes
the games, one team per part of each game

Private

Private for now: 45s online matches, rankings, tournaments and purchases.
Private: HangTime’s pick engine, the household’s library and the spoiler rules.
Private: Fernweh’s mail, trips, balances, airline rules and how options are ranked.
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