The FAFO Files

Where I find out.

The projects with no client, no brief, and no guarantee they work. New frameworks, game engines, AI tooling — this is how I stay current, and it is the most honest thing on this site.

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6 of 6 experiments

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Dark Lillies
A 2D platformer about mercy: sense who is underneath the curse, then choose to strike or to purify. Playable prototype out now — art and story deep in progress.
Game · 2026 · HTML · JavaScript
Ongoing
Elden Ring Build Planner & Optimizer
A build planner and optimizer for Elden Ring: compare builds side by side, save them to your archive, and start from six curated loadouts. Built because the existing tools work, but none of them are pleasant to use.
Tool · 2026 · TanStack Start · Railway
Shipped
This Portfolio
The site you’re on right now — built with TanStack Start, server-side rendered, Contentful as the headless CMS, GSAP for motion, deployed on Railway. Full write-up coming soon.
Portfolio · 2026 · TanStack Start · Contentful · GSAP · Railway
Shipped
Path of Exile 2 Toolkit - Calculation Feature
A two-day sprint designing a DPS calculator dashboard for Path of Exile 2 players — weapon stats in, build decisions out.
Dashboard · 2025 · React
Complete
Cryptic Trader
A crypto trading app concept — onboarding, markets, and a full spot-trading screen with candlesticks and order books — built to see how much dense financial data a phone screen can hold before it stops being readable.
Mobile App · 2023
Complete
Netflix — UX Concept
A one-week, self-initiated UX study of Netflix’s help experience — rethinking the FAQ and footer where the world’s biggest streamer answers its hardest questions.
Web App · 2021

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Netflix — UX Concept