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MEET THE CREATOR

My name is Timothy and I live in NSW, Australia. I spawned in New Zealand circa 2000 which is why my company is called Kiwiforge instead of Koalaforge.

I've been making games for over a decade, I've released a few games on Steam and have worked at a few game studios in QLD, Australia. I do a bit of everything: I write code, make 3D & 2D art, do sound design and make music.

SOFTWARE I USE

Engine: Unity
Code: C# with Cursor IDE (I used Visual Studio from 2014 to 2022)
3D Art: Blender, Mixamo for rigging & animations
2D Art: Adobe Photoshop
Sound: FMOD Studio, Epidemic Sound
Music: Ableton Live
Version Control: Git & Fork

HOW IT ALL STARTED

Around 15 years old (2015) I decided I wanted to start a game company called Kiwiforge. I started learning Unity because I wanted to learn how to make 3D games, my first project was a simple first person platformer, which I would later release on Steam. It was a hit at school, for a while, most the class was secretly playing my game in class when the teacher wasn't looking.

I ended up submitting the game to Steam Greenlight and to my amazement, it was Greenlit by the community within a few months. I became insanely motivated to finish my game and started faking sick to get out of school so I could work on it all day.

I released Jumps on Steam in 2016 and it was met with overwhelmingly positive reviews and sold 200+ copies in the first month, 1000+ copies after a year and today its sold over 10,000 copies. This experience ignited my dream of making indie games for a living. I wasn't rich but I was making my own money as a 16 year old and I started dreaming bigger.

GAMES I LOVE

Banjo Kazooie, Yoshi's Story, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, 1080° Snowboarding, Micro Machines 64, Top Gear Overdrive, Simpsons Hit & Run, Tony Hawk's Underground, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, Need for Speed: Carbon, Need for Speed: Underground 2, Burnout: Revenge, MX vs. ATV Unleashed, Minecraft, Terraria, Stardew Valley, CS:GO, Rust, The Last of Us, Bloodborne