President Noir - FarPoint

OtherWeb Application DevelopmentGame DevelopmentCloud InfrastructureProduct PlanningUI/UX Design

Organisation: Personal Projects
Period: Jun 2021 – Present
How it started: Self-initiated (A streamer said on air that they wanted a version packed with house rules)
Scale: Over 450,000 impressions and 1,200 wishlists on Steam (as of December 2025)

What I did

Redesigned it from a Unity-only build into a separated server (Go) and client (Unity / C#).
Made online play work over WebSocket.
Built the infrastructure on AWS (ECS).
Built the server-side game logic test-first.
Started shipping the v2 line in April 2026 and kept releasing through v2.4.0 by July.

The full release comes in December 2026.
Q3 2026 goes to stability and to playability: spectating, reusing a room, time limits, guards against mis-taps.
Q4 2026 brings play against the computer, more local rules, richer presentation, and free matches.
Alongside the launch push, the first step into another card game.
Further out, growing it into a platform with many card games on it.

Invested heavily in proving the game logic correct: a debug client that drives several players at once, and a tool that runs a defined scenario and checks the state never drifts.

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I can draw the whole system, and cover operation and reaching users on my own, alongside generative AI.
On my own time I have shipped an online card game, President Noir, on Steam, and the iOS app BigTap on the App Store. Planning, UI design, implementation in Go and Swift, infrastructure as code with Terraform on AWS, store listings in multiple languages and the work of getting people to install them — all of it is mine. Beyond writing code, I can take on the whole of building a system to solve a problem. I draw the overall shape myself, and put generative AI to work to get it into form quickly.

I can design the whole system, not one layer of it
From hardware up to the cloud, I can draw the blueprint. I have built IoT hardware, web applications, mobile apps, and a game service platform running in the cloud, so I can combine pieces I have not used before and still see how the whole thing fits together. Holding that picture is also what lets me hand implementation to generative AI and still carry a whole system on my own.
I put generative AI to full use
At work and on my own projects alike, generative AI does most of the building. Claude Code and a task manager I built myself let me run several projects at once while I mostly review. I deliberately do not review implementation line by line; I review the design closely instead, so that what gets built is still aimed at the goal. The same applies outside code — I have been learning to produce game assets and short marketing videos with tools like ElevenLabs.