kevin watters

graphics, games, XR, creative tools, more

I'm drawn to accessible and humanistic computing. Interactive media that makes us uncomfortable or laugh or both. Unconventional rendering. I try to be mindful that technology is never neutral . But thrilled to see where we're going.

find me at github or kevinwatters at gmail dot com

multiJAM
With Adam Watters. An iOS platform game-make your own levels and play them live with friends.
GodotVision
With Adam Watters. A bridge between Godot and the Vision Pro.
Threezy
With Adam Watters. Create 3D art on your phone.
Raymarching Toolkit for Unity
With Fer Ramallo. A toolkit for raymarching in Unity.
Content Creator Simulator
With Fer Ramallo. A holographic diorama creator for the Looking Glass.
Jai Game Engine
A Covid-19 game engine experiment, in Jai.
Strange Dates
An inefficient soulmate finder. Interactive fiction featured in the Queerness and Games Conference 2018 Arcade in Montreal.
Trackpad Touch
A Unity plugin for multitouch trackpad input on the desktop.
Zero Days VR
Worked in a team at Scatter to ship an Emmy-winning VR doc inspired by Alex Gibney's film about the Stuxnet cyber weapon.
Circles
A musical/colorful fidget toy.
A Very Holographic Aquarium
With Fernando Ramallo and Corey Bertelsen. An interactive aquarium for the Looking Glass holographic display.
Traplands
A top-down action puzzler demo
An Economics Simulation Poem
With Fernando Ramallo. Perform labor as both the CEO and worker, reap the rewards of your hard work, until the end of time.
Wish U Were Here
An installation with Robert Yang, Eddie Cameron, and Fer Ramallo
The Beach
With Kyle Kukshtel, a seagull battle royale.
VR Nightmare No. 1
The first of my VR nightmares.
Impossible Sculptor
A VR sculptor with a twist—no polygons
Laser Wart Removal
Puzzle your way through sacred geometries and unrealistic physics to remove warts with lasers
You Can Blow Bubbles
A bubble-blowing game made for the 7DFPS jam
funhouseRL
for whom is the funhouse roguelike fun? perhaps for lovers
gitviz
Visualize git repository internals as they change, live, in the browser

Blog

Why did Why the Lucky Stiff quit?
Interrogating the why of one of programming pedagogy's giants
This is Your Brain on Vim
A hjkl-shaped neural pathways tell-all