Hi, I'm Rhiannon, a software and game developer based in Launceston, Tasmania. I've helped an art collective by the name of Soma Lumia make a number of exhibitions for a local arts festival, and spend a lot of my downtime making weird little games, prototypes, and playthings.

I've also worked with Bitlink, a tech company specialising in prototyping and tech education, where I was responsible for designing and creating commissioned prototypes for games and mobile apps, as well as developing materials for their education products and workshops.

I love rhythm and action roleplaying games, and am currently very infatuated with Final Fantasy XIV.

I specialise in Unity software and game development, having used Unity in my hobby projects for nearly a decade. (Just a teensy matter of making more that I actually release!)

If you'd like to reach out, my contact details are listed below:

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rhiarhi.bsky.social
Discord: rhiarhirhi
Email: rhiannon@azurespace.dev

In 2022, studio Little Pink Clouds first brought me onboard to help develop a small prototype in Unity for what would later become Letters to Arralla, a cozy mail delivery game set on a fictional island off the coast of Victoria, Australia. Since the prototype, I was the solo programmer for Letters to Arralla for most of the game's development. Letters to Arralla launched on Steam on September 16th, 2025, with a Switch port announced for Q1 2026.

During my time with Little Pink Clouds, my responsibilities included gameplay, UI, tool and systems programming, alongside a large degree of asset implementation and integration, and some of the VFX. I was also responsible for cutscene development and a large part of the Steam backend setup, and fairly involved with the animation and narrative integration for the game!

Since the Steam launch of a demo in October 2024, I was also responsible for monitoring and moderating the Steam Discussions board, though to be honest it's been fairly quiet on that front!

Music Game! is a rhythm RPG vertical slice I put together over three weeks as part of a self-driven jam. In Music Game!, you create a party of three characters that go on to fight polygonal enemies in time to the music.

There are a few aspects to Music Game! that I'm quite proud of, such as the character profile creator, the rhythm gameplay, and the map editor.

Music Game! uses a party of three characters; A tank, who reduces overall team damage, a mage, who heals the team, and the angy, who does heavy damage to the enemy. During the character creation process, you give each member a name, an optional backstory, a class, and a profile picture which you create yourself!

After making your team, you can explore and encounter enemies, which are picked from an area-specific pool, and a random song is selected and played for combat.

The combat system follows a similar gameplay structure to other lane-based rhythm games. At the start of a battle, you start out with three lanes, one per character. As notes are hit in time to the music, the enemy is damaged and a special bar fills. Once activated, one of the three lanes are split in two, increasing the difficulty by allowing for more notes to appear, and requiring greater accuracy.

As you win battles, character exp is earned which levels up the character and improves stats. Very typical RPG stuff there. Attack improves damage, Defense slows the HP drain and allows you to live for longer, etc.

From the title screen, you can also access the map editor, which allows people to chart their own songs which are then playable within the main game.

In making this game, I also made a simple archival tool for packaging music files and game data together, which allows me to bundle each of the files required for a song into one asset.

And that's Music Game! The name needs a lot of work, but I'm quite proud of it for what it is. If you'd like to play it, it's available on itch.io!

In 2018 Bitlink was commissioned by the Royal Flying Doctor's Service to create an iPad game for kids around 3-6 years old, aimed to promote healthy living and awareness. It was intended to tie in with the RFDS' youth outreach program, though this never eventuated.

We developed a rough prototype of each level in collaboration with local artist Ben Lambert, who made the art assets.

In this app, players would play one of four minigames to complete objectives, reach high scores and earn stars, which are used to buy aesthetic items in the in-game shop.

Each game was themed around a simple wellness goal for children. Drinking water, washing your hands with soap, brushing your teeth and eating healthy food
The first minigame is a short runner-style game in which you control someone on an ATV in outback Australia, collecting water and packages for delivery.

The second minigame is a timed bubble popping minigame themed around handwashing. The objective was to pop bubbles containing pathogens before they flew off-screen. A simple combo system was implemented to reward accuracy and consistency.

The third minigame (my favourite) is a game in which you brush the teeth of a grumpy Tasmanian Devil by sweeping your finger across the iPad. As you brushed, the critter would growl, burp, and occasionally chomp down, and if your finger was anywhere near its mouth you'd hear an "ouch" and wouldn't be able to brush for a moment or two.

The final minigame was a match-three style game where you'd line up three of the same food items to destroy them and earn points. Items were categorized as fruit, vegetable, dairy, meat or snacks and depending on the ratio of foodstuffs eaten, you could earn bonus points.

I mentioned earlier that players would earn stars based on completing simple objectives within the minigames. These stars are used to purchase little in-game postcards depicting various pieces of equipment. Once purchased, you can click on them to see a little description of the item and how they're used.

And that's the RFDS Kids Club!

Grow Stronger is a gamified health and fitness research application commissioned by the University of Queensland. Intended for use in collaboration with hospital clinicians and patient volunteers for research studies, it is an iOS and Android application where participants choose from a list of daily activities, report on their experience carrying out those activities, and grow a little garden alongside their team members.

The main drive for making an app like this was that a lot of the exercise regimes for people with COPD are incredibly light, and often custom crafted for each patient. Traditional exercise/motivation applications were unsuited to the low intensity of exercise required.

As such, Bitlink developed this app in an iterative process alongside researchers from the University of Queensland, clinicians from various Queensland hospitals, and participants of the clinical trial.

I was tasked with frontend development, including interface design, gamification, as well as implementing communications between the back and frontend.

At the height of COVID, we wanted to make an experience where people could be together, but "from a distance", which is how this idea and art piece came about.

Lacunae was a free, multi-venue exhibition that took place during MONA FOMA 2021 in Launceston, Tasmania. Three locations were used in our piece: a church, a florist's and a local theatre.

Each site was set up with an Intel RealSense D435 unit and a rear-projection setup. Participants who moved around and interacted within the space would see themselves as well as those in the other two spaces at the same time.

I was tasked with creating the underlying framework for this exhibition in Unity. Intel RealSense D435 motion capture units were used to track participants at each of the three sites. I implemented the underlying motion capture, positional audio system and the blending effects for each "layer" of the screen.

The screen consisted of four looping videos being played simultaneously: one background layer, and a video for each site's silhouette. I wrote a shader which blended the four textures together based on a mask.

The primary camera was set up to output to a rendertexture, which was used as the mask for the blending shader before it was blit to the screen.

To facilitate this multiplayer experience a small relay server was also set up in order to pass movement information between the three sites. The server was really dumb, and simply sent all information it received from one of the sites back to the other two sites.

Each site's aesthetics and audio were unique, and had some thematic connection to the site they were in. The florist and theatre exhibitions made use of a dynamic audio system where moving close to invisible parts of the space would increase the volume of a given audio channel.

The church's soundscape was a little different, and was something that the person playing at the church would "conduct". The system calculated the angle between a person's shoulder and their hand, which allowed different audio tracks to play based on hand position. It lead to a lot of swaying and arm flapping!

The video assets were created by Darryl Rogers of Soma Lumia, and the audio assets were created by Ian Chia.

Made for Global Game Jam 2021 over a couple of days, this game is a short collectathon in which you play as a drone sliding across the planet to find parts for an SOS communications system after crash-landing on a deserted planet.

To move, you charge thrusters by pressing the left mouse button, then release to get launched with an impulse. The right mouse button is used to brake, which helps reduce accidental overshooting.

The main weirdness with this game is its interface. I was going for a very minimal theme, as though the drone was operating under limited information e.g. from interpreted low-res satellite data. The "screen" is made up of a 16x16 grid of circles, whose size are determined by the height of the nearby terrain.

Terrain is made up of a number of small biomes such as meadows, lakeside, desert, and crashed airship. The biome controls the colour of the landscape circles as well as the small animated landscape representation to the right of the screen.

The magenta circles are your drone, and you can always see your approximate objective and drone positions via the minimap in the top left corner of the screen.

You can download a copy of the game here, for Windows

Trans Hecking Rights is a very simple unique wallpaper generator for Android and Windows. It was made in Unity for an itch.io gamejam called TRANS F***ING RAGE. Loading the app on a mobile or PC procedurally generates a wallpaper based off of the device's machineID, which is unique (enough) to make wallpapers different from device to device.

The procedural generator first picks a random colour from the trans flag to use as a background colour, then spawns a series of shapes with random colours from the trans flag. Finally, a random snippet of text is overlaid with a small banner.

I've also added the functionality to load other seeds, so you can load different wallpapers and share IDs and things. Not that you'd necessarily want to given how niche this is, but the option's there.

If you're interested, you can download Trans Hecking Rights below!

QUAD is an arcade-style puzzle game by Smash Attack Studios where you spin blocks to match colours and get high scores for the leaderboards powered by Google Play Games and Apple's Game Center. I was the lead programmer on this game, responsible for most of the game's internals.

There are two game modes: Time Attack, in which you have 60 seconds to make the most matches and reach the highest score, and Marathon, where you try to reach score thresholds before time runs out. Reaching a threshold resets the timer to 60 seconds and makes it harder to reach the next tier.

QUAD was my first published video game, released on the Google Play and Apple App Store. I'm not sure it's still up these days, however.