OPEN for hire LOC: AU EXP: 3+ yrs

RAYNER BRANDON.

Senior Game Developer & Technical Artist at SavySoda. I prototype fast, ship commercially, and push how games look and feel — from VR archery, to MMO starship battles.

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▣ UNITY/ HLSL · SHADERLAB/ ▣ QUEST 2/3 VR/ BLENDER/ ▣ C# · UNITY API/ VFX · PARTICLES/ ▣ PIXEL ART/ 3D MODELLING/ ▣ GAME PROTOTYPING/ RAPID R&D/ ▣ WEBGL · BROWSER/ ANIMATION/ ▣ UNITY/ HLSL · SHADERLAB/ ▣ QUEST 2/3 VR/ BLENDER/ ▣ C# · UNITY API/ VFX · PARTICLES/ ▣ PIXEL ART/ 3D MODELLING/ ▣ GAME PROTOTYPING/ RAPID R&D/ ▣ WEBGL · BROWSER/ ANIMATION/

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Featured Projects

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Pixel Starships 2

STEAMMMO · STRATEGYPC · MAC · MOBILE

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Archery Pro

QUEST 2/3VR · PVP MULTIPLAYER4.4★ · 537 REVIEWS

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Party Ships

PCACTION PARTY · LOCAL CO-OPIN DEV

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// SAVYSODA · STEAM EARLY ACCESS

Pixel Starships 2

A massively multiplayer starship-building strategy RPG. Technical art lead — rewrote shaders in HLSL & Shader Graph, ported the project to URP, built automated baking & rigging pipelines for skin and weapon systems.

PLATFORMPC · MAC · MOBILE

GENREMMO STRATEGY

STATUSEARLY ACCESS

google play

// SAVYSODA · META STORE

Archery Pro

A VR archery experience for Quest 2, 3, and Pro. Rated 4.4★ across 537 reviews. Served as Producer and led the technical side — getting the game running on Quest 2, driving aggressive performance optimisation, creating baking procedures, improving shaders and topology, and devising a full VRoid pipeline.

PLATFORMQUEST 2/3

RATING4.4★ / 537

PRICEFREE

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// LILINDIE · PC · IN DEVELOPMENT

Party Ships

A fast-paced naval action game in active development under the lilindie banner. Led full development — built around super clean modular systems with bespoke developer tools for adjusting each module, keeping the design space flexible and iteration fast.

PLATFORMPC

GENREACTION PARTY

STATUSIN DEV

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About Me

UPTIME: 3+ YRS · STATUS: ● ONLINE

I'm a Senior Game Developer and Technical Artist with over 3 years of professional experience at SavySoda — an Australian studio shipping titles across PC, mobile, and VR. My work lives at the crossroads of engineering and visual craft: I prototype rapidly, build performant art pipelines, and care deeply about how a game feels to play.

I've shipped VR experiences for Quest 2/3 (Archery Pro — 4.4★ across 537 reviews), contributed to a massively multiplayer strategy RPG (Pixel Starships 2 on Steam), and developed multiple commercial mobile titles. Alongside professional work I build indie games under lilindie — a sibling collab spanning top-down adventures, space shooters, and survival horror.

I'm passionate about game prototyping and technical art — shaders, VFX, procedural systems, and squeezing every drop of visual quality out of an engine. I've been making games since the Flash era and I'm not slowing down. Now I'm looking for an ambitious studio building immersive, social, or technically innovative experiences — that's where I want to bring this energy next.

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Game Prototyping

Technical Art

VR / XR Development

Shader Development

VFX & Particles

2D & 3D Art

Pixel Art

Game & Systems Design

Mobile Development

Animation

Art Direction

Rapid R&D

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Unity Blender Photoshop Aseprite C# HLSL · ShaderLab Quest 2/3 Steam / PC iOS / Android WebGL

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Let's build something great.

I'm actively seeking opportunities at forward-thinking game studios. Whether you're building the next big VR world, an ambitious multiplayer title, or something entirely new — I'd love to talk.

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BASED IN AU · OPEN TO REMOTE

RAYNER BRANDON.

Featured Projects

Pixel Starships 2

Archery Pro

Party Ships

Games Catalogue

Prototypes & Technical Art

About Me

core_skills.txt

tools_and_platforms.txt

Let's build something great.