Hi, I'm @Paranoidgrinch.
I build roguelike systems, strange worlds — and occasionally collide negative-ion beams with high-power lasers.
Game designer and programmer behind Moonvine Forge Studios.
Currently building a modular deckbuilding engine designed to support mechanics that have not been imagined yet.
⚙️ Currently building: RogueDeck Core
A deterministic and modular C# engine for roguelike deckbuilding games.
The goal is simple:
New mechanics should extend the game — not force another rewrite of the combat system.
The engine is being built around:
- modular content packages
- event-driven effects and triggers
- deterministic combat resolution
- reusable cards, statuses, resources and targeting systems
- game-specific mechanics without central hardcoding
- UI-independent game logic
- reproducible seeded runs
- extensive automated testing
It is not intended for one fixed game.
It is intended to carry wildly different classes, worlds, resources and combat systems — including ideas the engine was never originally designed around.
Follow me on GitHub to watch the architecture grow from combat core to complete roguelike framework.
A fantasy roguelike where magic has been consumed by administration.
Fight through five acts of increasingly hostile bureaucracy:
- The City
- The Archives
- The Green Docket
- The Licensing Labyrinth
- The Divine Ledger
Choose from nine unusual classes:
- Bureaucrat
- Failed Wizard
- Guild Assassin Apprentice
- Hedge Witch
- Mortuary Apprentice
- Night Watch Recruit
- Sewer Diplomat
- Shroomancer
- Witch Clerk
Build decks, collect relics, stack questionable status effects and survive a world of magical workers, permits, archives and divine paperwork.
The beta includes:
- class-specific decks and mechanics
- enemies, bosses and multi-enemy encounters
- relics, events, shops and rewards
- data-driven cards and content
- deterministic runs
- automated bots and balance simulations
It was the project that exposed the limits of hardcoded game logic — and led directly to RogueDeck Core.
The Community Card Forge is an open invitation to contribute an idea.
Submit a:
- card
- relic
- spell
- status
- enemy action
- resource
- passive ability
- strange turn-based mechanic
No artwork required. No existing game required.
Balanced ideas are welcome.
Completely broken ideas may be even more interesting.
Your submission can become a real design challenge and architecture test for RogueDeck Core.
Strange worlds forged in moonlight.
Moonvine Forge is my independent game-development project, focused on:
- systemic roguelike design
- unusual classes and mechanics
- atmospheric fantasy worlds
- mechanics that create stories
- community-driven experiments
- reusable game architecture
The aim is not to produce interchangeable deckbuilders.
It is to create systems with enough personality to make players ask:
“What happens if I try this?”
I also work in accelerator mass spectrometry, where I transport and cool negative-ion beams, overlap them with high-power laser light and automate the hardware around the experiment.
- rare-isotope measurements
- high-power laser photodetachment
- ion–laser beam overlap
- laser-based isobar suppression
- molecular-anion beams
- ion-beam cooling and transport
- beam diagnostics
- automated experimental control
FLAVIA — Fully Integrated Laser Anion Variables for AMS Integrated controls and tools for laser–anion experiments in accelerator mass spectrometry.
Verdi V18 Laser Controller A Python and PyQt5 interface for controlling and monitoring a high-power Verdi laser, including output power, shutter state, operating status, temperatures and interlocks.
- SIMION particle-trajectory simulations
- RFQ ion cooling and confinement
- injection and extraction optics
- electrostatic lenses and deflectors
- electrode geometries and beamline design
- RF matching and resonant LC systems
- automated parameter scans
RFQ resonance and LC-circuit control Remote monitoring and adjustment of the resonant RF-matching system used for the ion cooler.
- Beckhoff PLC systems
- TwinCAT
- IEC 61131-3 Structured Text
- LabVIEW
- Python and PyQt5 control interfaces
- MQTT
- Raspberry Pi control
- instrument communication
- remote monitoring and hardware control
Beckhoff CX7080 MQTT integration PLC communication, remote control and laboratory-system integration.
Using PySCF and Python workflows to investigate:
- electron affinities
- molecular geometries
- rotational constants
- vibrational properties
- electronic structure
- photodetachment channels
- experimentally promising molecular anions
The connection between both fields is not accidental.
Whether I am designing a combat engine or an ion-optical system, I care about the same things:
modularity, interactions, edge cases and what emerges when the full system starts running.
New mechanics. New architecture. New worlds.
Occasionally, new ways to make ions and photons collide.
Small studio. Careful craft. Unusual worlds.