Game · GodotIn progress
Patankirtir: Theatre of War
My top-down tank game. You get a tank, the waves keep coming, and you see how long you last. Built in Godot 4, with a mobile build and online multiplayer I am wiring up.
Charis's Workshop
Apps. Games. Experiments.
Made in Nottingham.
Now building
Hi, I'm Charis. I make apps, games, odd little experiments, and the occasional system for someone who asked nicely. This is where I put the stuff I'm proud of (and some of the stuff I'm still figuring out).
I study Maths and Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University, and when I'm not building something I'm usually on a court, a mat, a trail or a bike.
See what I makeMy journey
The story so far
Every level so far, the one I'm on, and what's next.
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Level 1 Clear
Taking things apart
Started building things just to see how they work: encryption from scratch, pathfinding visualisers, little tools nobody asked for.
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Level 2 Clear
Maths & Computer Science at NTU
Studying Maths and Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University.
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Level 3 Clear
First real software
Built a supervision and compliance platform for a care provider, then websites and portals for other clients. Real users, real deadlines.
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Level 4 Clear
Shipping my own things
Battle Plan and Echo went live, and Patankirtir grew into a proper tank game.
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Level 5 Clear
Got moving
Picked up tennis and pickleball at NTU, got my red belt in taekwondo, started running again and put a lot of miles on the mountain bike.
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Now playing In progress
Norrow Labs
Setting up Norrow Labs, a small studio to give my apps and games a proper home. The domains are mine. The rest is in progress.
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Before Jan 2027 Up next
My first 10K
Training for my first 10K run, every kilometre logged on Strava.
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2027 Up next
The big read
The Republic by Plato and The Conscience of the Rich by C. P. Snow.
Right now
What I'm up to
- BuildingEcho, a messaging app where the characters text back like real people. It's the thing I think about in the shower.
- MakingPatankirtir, my tank game. Currently getting multiplayer to stop doing strange things.
- Setting upNorrow Labs, a small studio to give my apps a proper home.
- Reading nextThe Republic by Plato and The Conscience of the Rich by C. P. Snow, both lined up for 2027.
Things I've made
Games, apps and experiments
A few favourites. There's more on the things I make page.
AppLive
Echo
A messaging app where you text characters who feel like real people. They have moods, they notice when you leave them on read, and like most people, they do not explain their feelings.
echotexts.com ▶Game · StoryOn the drawing board
LEGION
A game about an ordinary life in Roman Italy, around 100 AD. The first level has no fighting at all. You are a farm labourer on a harvest morning in a sun-baked olive village, and the whole point is to make you love the place before a recruiter's cart turns up on the road.
Away from the screen
The rest of me
Tennis & pickleball
Picked up both this year at NTU. New sports, new people, more reasons to get away from the screen.
Taekwondo
I got my red belt. Still training, still kicking.
Running
Running again, logging it all on Strava. The goal: my first 10K before January 2027.
Mountain biking
Sometimes to think, sometimes to relax, sometimes for the exercise. 5K, 10K, 13K, whatever the day calls for.
Here for work?
I also build software for businesses.
Mostly care providers: compliance systems, websites and booking tools. That side has its own pages.
Say hi
My inbox is open
Want to play-test a game, have an idea you want to bounce around, or just want to say you liked something? Send me a message. I read everything.