Hi, I’m Dominic, a game developer and college instructor. I make games and websites, mostly the bits you click on, and I write about what I figure out along the way. Have a look around.
A first-person action RPG UI I built in Unreal 5.8 to practise MVVM with Epic’s UMG Viewmodel plugin. Health, stamina and mana bars, an interact prompt, pickup toasts, and an interactive inventory. Parametric materials are used to style the bars and item entries. Soon: Quest log, fancy procedural reticles and anything else that strikes my fancy.
UI programming on Nightingale (opens in a new tab), a shared-world survival crafting game in Unreal Engine 5. I built screens in close collaboration with gameplay and UX designers. Screens are styled with Common UI, with Common Input and Input Actions handling gamepad support.
From 2017 to 2022 I worked on a handful of idle games with East Side Games (opens in a new tab). The Office and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia are the most prominent, along with Trailer Park Boys, Archer: Danger Phone, Bud Farm and others. From wireframes and mockups I built screens and a wide variety of UI components that change based on data or gameplay. I also worked on IdleKit, the framework behind these and other hit idle games.
In 2025 I worked on UI updates, system improvements and optimization at Infinigods (opens in a new tab), on a Unity mobile game; the Hero and Pet systems were an exercise in all three. The pop-ups are driven by balancing data from designers in PlayFab and presentation data from artists in Unity. I worked with art, design and engineering to hit a strict performance budget, and built reusable widgets and shaders.
