BRANDON MAKIN'S PORTFOLIO

Solitaire Match 3

(Click to view the trailer.)

Solitaire Match 3 is MobilityWare's take on a Bejeweled-style gem matching game.

As a programmer, I worked alongside artists, designers and fellow software developers to build this hit mobile game that now has over 100K downloads.

Cafecadabra

(Click to view the trailer.)

My 8-person team and I published this free game back in Halloween 2020.

Among other things I made the dialogue system and worked closely with the artists to execute their vision.

Golf Solitaire: Pro-Tour

(Click to view the trailer.)

Much like Solitaire Match 3, I worked as a gameplay programmer to build and release a mobile version of the card game known traditionally as golf solitaire.

Our game is available for iOS and Android andnow has over 50k downloads on the Play Store alone.

Godot: Web-Based Multiplayer

(Click to view my write-up on the official Godot blog.)

Godot is a free and open source game engine. I was contracted by Google to improve their multiplayer features

I added support to the engine for a web protocol called WebRTC. A simple interface for WebRTC is key for web games because it can provide the lowest latency form of communication available on the web.

These contributions also gave Godot a straightforward way to make peer-to-peer multiplayer games.

Tutorial for "Await" in Godot

(Click to watch tutorial.)

Here I try my hand at sharing some of my programming knowledge to the public! This was posted to YouTube and TikTok with much more success on the latter platform.

I made everything here: the script, the art, the animation, the narration and the editing.

(Well, everything except the 2-second clip from Pokémon near the start!)

Inktober Days 2-3: Rats

Last October, I decided to draw new art inspired by song lyrics daily. Click to see my process!

Inktober Day 4: Pluto

Last October, I decided to draw new art inspired by song lyrics daily. Click to see my process!

Inktober Day 17: Mad Hatter

Last October, I decided to draw new art inspired by song lyrics daily. Click to see my process!

Inktober Day 24: Freaks

Last October, I decided to draw new art inspired by song lyrics daily. Click to see my process!

Inktober Day 25: Lemon Boy

Last October, I decided to draw new art inspired by song lyrics daily. Click to see my process!

Inktober Day 26: In The Woods Somewhere

Last October, I decided to draw new art inspired by song lyrics daily. Click to see my process!

Pokémon Fan Art (Piloswine and Swinubs)

A personal drawing of some of my favorite Pokémon roaming their native habitat!

3D Head Sculpt

A simple sketch of a head in 3D that hasn't been retopologized.