The full portfolio

8 websites and 4 web tools, live, each built end to end. No lead story here — every one gets the same billing.

Websites

8 sites

Sites built end to end — design, build, content and hosting.

C64 · Demoscene · Pixel art

C64GFX

A living museum for Commodore 64 pixel art

c64gfx.com

The definitive home for Commodore 64 pixel art — over 36,000 pieces from 3,490+ artists, each one catalogued, credited and traced back to the artist, event and often the real-world reference it was drawn from. Built from scratch to do right by the art, down to its own in-browser conversion tool.

36,400+artworks catalogued

3,490+credited artists

300K+lines of C++/JS

100serverless functions

C++ / CMakeNode.js (Netlify Functions)MongoDB AtlasAlgolia searchAWS S3 + CloudFrontWebAssembly

Every piece catalogued with its artist, event and the references it drew on — not just an image dump
Community-run: submissions, corrections, competition voting and a running Top-25 kept alive by the artists themselves
GFXquake — its own WASM PNG-to-C64 image converter — runs embedded, in the browser
Hand-rolled static-site generator with atomic, manifest-hashed deploys

Advisory · Games

DinoSloth

As rigorous as the reviews it sells

dinosloth.com

The home of DinoSloth's Unreal Engine and studio-technical advisory — a zero-dependency static site with its own Python toolchain, built to prove the same discipline it charges clients for.

16,100lines of code

0runtime dependencies

23+8pages + blog posts

Static HTML/CSSCustom Python 3 build pipelineBespoke Markdown dialectHeadless-Chromium PDF pipelineNetlify

Sample reports built to explain a technical finding in one chart and one paragraph — no jargon required to follow it
A client-side-only self-assessment tool: nothing it scores ever leaves the browser
Unresolved copy renders as a visible amber flag, so nothing half-finished ships by accident

Personal · Advisory

Robert Troughton

Thirty years, from Epic Games to founder-turned-advisor

roberttroughton.co.uk

A personal site carrying a career record, not a résumé PDF — built on a hand-written static-site generator with its own Markdown dialect for live charts, diagrams and syntax-highlighted code.

7,700lines of code

30+years covered

3studio acquisitions

Static HTML/CSS/JSCustom Node.js blog enginemarked + gray-matterMermaid.jsChart.js

A full written career record, not just a CV — the studios, the ships and the acquisitions, in the author's own words
Custom Markdown extensions: callouts, live Chart.js embeds, Mermaid diagrams — all built into the pipeline
Zero framework overhead: fast, dependency-light, deployable anywhere

C64 · Demoscene · Archive

Genesis Project

Forty years of demoscene history, kept current automatically

gp-64.com

Genesis Project has been releasing demos, cracks and music since 1986 — one of the scene's oldest and most decorated groups, home to Propaganda Magazine and the Delirious series. The site is the group's living archive: every release, member and party result synced straight from CSDb, so the record updates itself instead of going stale.

2,732releases on record

40years running

37active members

18countries represented

Node.js build pipelineCSDb webservice syncZero runtime dependenciesNetlify

Every release, member and hall-of-fame placing is synced live from CSDb — the record updates itself instead of falling behind
Propaganda Magazine and the Delirious demo series get their own highlighted history, pulled in automatically by name
A resources page for the group's own tools and sites — SIDquake, DIRquake, GFXquake and more, several built by the same author
Zero runtime dependencies: a hand-rolled static-site generator, in keeping with the rest of the portfolio

C64 · Games

Sabre Wulf Remastered

The home of a 1984 classic, rebuilt for the Commodore 64

gp-64.com/swr

Genesis Project's remaster of Ultimate's Sabre Wulf has its own site: how to play, the whole jungle as one map with a full-size viewer, every critter animated from the game's own sprite sheets, what the remaster changes, and the full history of Sabreman from 1984 to today. Every screenshot is a real capture from the release disk.

256jungle screens on one map

38animated sprites

21entries of history, 1984–2026

Node.js build pipelinePython image pipelineZero runtime dependenciesNetlify

Screenshots, the map and the sprites are all built from the game's own source art and release disk, so nothing on the site is a mock-up
Captures are remapped to the palette the art was drawn in and scaled up pixel-perfect, so the C64 graphics look as the artist intended
Critters animate in plain CSS from strips cut out of the game's sprite sheets — no video, no GIFs
Linked both ways with the Genesis Project archive: every preview release and team member has a page on gp-64.com

Memorial · Archive

Prisoner of War

A memorial archive, built to last

prisonerofwar.co.uk

The wartime memoir of a British soldier held in Rangoon Jail for over three years, carried through in his own words — alongside a researched roll of the 43 men in his unit, the family's own photographs and letters, and a set of resources for other prisoner-of-war families still looking for the same answers.

43names researched

18+15chapters, two editions

22archival photos live

Two reading editions side by side: a faithful transcription of the original, and a gently edited version for a first read
43 named men from his unit, each with an individually researched fate
Original family photographs, letters and documents — not stock imagery
A glossary and timeline for readers who don't already know the history of the Burma campaign

C64 · Demoscene · Coding

C64Demo

A living technical journal for C64 demoscene programming

c64demo.com

Deep, low-level write-ups on Commodore 64 demo-coding — raster-split scrollers, border tricks, SID engineering — built fast and clean on Eleventy, with a hand-rolled search index instead of a bolt-on library.

14in-depth technical posts

247lines, hand-rolled search

Eleventy 3 / NunjucksNode 20/22eleventy-imgCustom JS searchNetlify

Links out to and documents SIDBlaster, a real standalone open-source 6502 disassembler by the same author
Responsive WebP image pipeline, generated automatically per post
Per-post social share images generated by a custom Eleventy shortcode

Unreal Engine · Coding · Blog

Unreal Wizard

Practical write-ups for developers working with Unreal Engine

unrealwizard.com

A personal blog for developers working with Unreal Engine — deep technical write-ups on hunting bugs and hot loops with static code analysis, alongside opinion pieces on the games industry. Built on the same lightweight Eleventy stack as c64demo.com, right down to the RSS and JSON feeds.

3in-depth essays

2023writing since

Eleventy 2 / Nunjuckseleventy-imgeleventy-plugin-rssMarkdownNetlify

A full technical walkthrough of hunting bugs and hot loops in Unreal C++ with static code analysis
One post is the build log behind C64GFX.com's ChatGPT-assisted pipeline — already in this portfolio
Industry opinion pieces too, not just code — remote work and studio culture get the same treatment
Built on the same lightweight Eleventy stack as c64demo.com, RSS and JSON feeds included

Web tools

4 tools

Software that runs in the browser — converters, players and platforms, not brochureware.

C64 · Demoscene · Music

SIDquake

Emulates a Commodore 64 down to the cycle

sidquake.c64demo.com

Drop in a SID file and it plays, analyses and repackages it — a cycle-accurate C64 emulator in the browser, hand-built down to its own MOS 6510 CPU core, that turns 1980s chiptunes into standalone executables real hardware can run.

113K+lines of source

61,000tunes self-hosted (HVSC)

10visualizer templates

20,000fuzz cases per opcode

Vanilla JSC/C++ → WebAssemblylibsidplayfp / reSIDfp6502 assembly (KickAss)Netlify Edge Functions

Ten visualizer styles and 116 authentic palettes, so the exported program looks like a release, not a rip
Own MOS 6510 CPU emulator, compiled to WASM, cross-checked opcode by opcode against an independent reference
Automatic memory-layout planning packs relocatable player code and music with zero collisions
Exports a real, standalone .prg that runs unmodified on original 1980s hardware

C64 · Disk images

DIRquake

Renders a disk directory the way real hardware would

dirquake.c64gfx.com

A browser tool that reproduces a Commodore 64 disk-directory listing pixel-for-pixel — down to undocumented 1541, BASIC and KERNAL quirks — so demoscene "directory art" previews exactly as it would on the real machine.

6,900lines of custom JS

42hardware-accuracy unit tests

0runtime dependencies

Vanilla JSCustom GIF encoderZero runtime dependenciesNetlify

Built for a real demoscene craft — "directory art" — so artists can preview exactly what viewers will see
Emulates three undocumented hardware behaviours in tandem, verified against physical C64 + 1541 hardware
A companion C++ reference implementation serves as the line-by-line accuracy benchmark
Everything runs client-side — nothing uploaded, nothing stored

Simulation · Research · NDA

Simulation Platform

A deep research simulation platform, built for a UK university

Private · not publicly linked

A successful deep research project for a UK university — full-stack, browser-based, with live scenario dashboards and reporting. The work is classified and NDA restricted, so this is as much detail as we can share: what it's built with, not what it does.

NDAcase study on request

React 19 + TypeScriptFastAPI (Python)PostgreSQLEChartsLeaflet

Full-stack simulation platform: scenario design, live dashboards, PDF reporting
Delivered and in active use — no further detail can be shared publicly

C64 · Graphics · WASM

GFXquake

A C64 graphics compiler that runs in your browser

c64gfx.com/gfxquake

Drop in a picture and it works out every legal Commodore 64 graphics mode it could be drawn in — cheapest first — then hand-assembles working 6502 machine code to prove it, with real reasoning about VIC-II timing and memory constraints.

15,300lines of source

11C64 graphics formats supported

Vanilla JSC++ → WebAssemblyHand-written 6502 assembler + simulatorGPL-2.0

Picks the cheapest legal graphics mode automatically, so artists don't need a VIC-II reference manual to get good results
Reasons about VIC-II bank layout, raster timing and colour-RAM budget, not just pixels
Self-hosts its own 6502 assembler and CPU simulator to prove exported code actually runs