Hello World! I’m Kayne Ruse, an independent game developer, making both video and tabletop games of all kinds.

I’ve been making games for 20 years, and was born with a controller in my hand. I’ve got a lot of practical skills and hands-on experience with my own projects, and I’m always looking for new ways to improve and expand those skills.

One of my biggest claims to fame is releasing a game on the Nintendo Switch - Candy Raid: The Factory.

Another would be spending four and a half years on a microservice driven web game, and actually completing it - Egg Trainer. After completing it, Egg Trainer’s IP and assets were sold to a good friend, and I’m ready to move on to the next stage of my life.

My ultimate goal in life is to lead my own gamedev team on self-sustaining projects - that is, our success and sales can support us well enough to carry us between releases.

If you want to contact me, you can do so at krgamestudios@gmail.com

Blog Posts

• Start Your Engines

  It’s been just over four months since I began Toy’s rewrite in earnest, and I’ve outlined a rough schedule for the next three-ish months. At that point, I’ll begin building an engine around it.

  A friend of mine is working towards building tools and utilities within Unity, to support a game of his own. Since game engines seem to be on my mind this week, let’s begin outlining the Box engine, which will be the next step for Toy.

• Draw Two Cards

  I recently wrote down a dozen-ish game mechanics from various places that I find interesting in isolation. These ideas work well in their respective games, but could also be adapted or reused in other games. Since half of them were related to card games in some way, I’ve picked those specific mechanics to talk about, as they share a common genre.

• Design Shelf: Lowercase Dragons

  Game ideas are easy - I have half a dozen every day. I write down the interesting ones, either to come back to, or to inspire the imaginations of others.

  I refer to my scattered ideas and half-finished projects as my “shelf”, where I can put things for the time being, until I feel ready to tackle them with full force.

  These ideas are scattered across many notes and code repositories, so I’m going to gather the most promising concepts and present them here for your entertainment.

  In this post: Lowercase Dragons.

• Have a KitKat
• Make A Betta Meta
• Boot Pun Goes Here
• Game Plan
• Portal Scifi
• Them Thematic Things
• A Toy Programming Language
• Blessed By Curses
• Power Rangers
• History And Timeline Of Egg Trainer
• Osr Ttrpg
• The Iron Throne, Part Ii
• The Iron Throne
• Barking Up The Wrong Resource Tree
• Hello World

Community & Socials

• Discord
• Bluesky
• Studio GitHub
• Personal GitHub

Support Me

• Patreon
• ko-fi
• LinkedIn