Hi, I'm Charis.

The short version

I make software. Some of it is serious, like the systems I build for care providers. A lot of it is just for me: tank games, a messaging app full of characters with feelings, AIs from a TV show fighting each other on a fake network. If something seems interesting, I tend to try building it to see how it works.

Right now I'm studying Maths and Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University, and building my own apps and games on the side.

What I love making

Games, mostly. There's something about making a world, even a small one, that nothing else scratches. I like games that make you feel something about a place before anything happens in it. That's the whole idea behind LEGION, the Roman game I'm designing, where the first level is just an ordinary harvest morning.

I also like building things people actually use every day, which is how Echo, Battle Plan and Body Double happened. And I like taking things apart: I wrote RSA from scratch just to understand it.

Outside of code

Sport, mostly, and a lot more of it this year. I picked up tennis and pickleball at NTU, got my red belt in taekwondo, and started running again, with my first 10K planned before January 2027. Then there's the mountain bike, which is where I do my best thinking. Some rides are for exercise, some are just to clear my head.