Nichole's Itch.io ❤︎ Ultraviolet Softworks ❤︎ games for my computer
"everything i do is for the 17~yr old version of myself" ~ virgil abloh
Hermetic Refrain
The Fighter, the Diviner, and the Cleric enter a technicolor purgatory hellscape full of gossips and weird little guys. Polly Pocket meets Darkest Dungeon in this opera about people who can't--or won't--let go.
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creative director, visual lead, composer, level design, 3D modeling, programming
in partnership with Noa Segal♡
2024-Present
Daydream Heartbeat Cure
An auto-biographic poetic expression dealing with chronic depression and isolation. Help Blue find relief in a lonely moment by dreaming big and beautifully.
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solo dev, creative director, composer, level design, animation, programming
2025
Magenta Gunslinger
Take Magenta shooting!!!
song: Machine Maid by Two Lone Swordsmen
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solo dev, creative director, level design, animation, programming
2024
Growth Spurt: A Meandering Intermission into the Afterhours of a Miscalculation
A faux pas at the Middle School dance reverts Nour back to their primordial state and sends them on a one-night maximalist transformative journey. Flop, slide, leap, and rocket around the city filled with zany future friends and mysterious architectures. Play eclectic mini-games where you will discover whether surgery can be joyful, if aliens have feelings, and how to deal with a bad boss.
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in partnership with games for my computer♡
recognized by IGF, BAFTA, and A.Maze
2024
Horsegirl goes to Heaven
We often ponder what happens after death...especially what might happen to the elusive horse girls.
Songs: What is it with Girls and Horses by Templeton Thompson, Bonehead by Naked City
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solo dev, level design, plundercore
2023
Hypermasculine Black and White Game with Fall Damage
waking up, facing the day rock hard. ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ
songs: girls just want to have fun by starfckr, bonehead by torture garden, tour de france kraftwerk, story of a lonely guy blink 182, my way by limp bizkit, custer by slipknot, creep by radiohead
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solo dev, creative director, level design, animation, programming
2024
Spray Drift Down from Dover
A small Poem for my Dad.
Big Helio-Planes don't smoke in bed~
༘⋆༄.°⋆
Song: Some Things Last a Long Time by Beach House
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solo dev
2024
The Rip
music video//painting//connecting the dots between:
Love&Death&Life&Materiality&Confusion&Patience.
Death masks are imprints leaving strange likeness behind.
Song: The Rip by Portishead
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solo dev
2024
Islands in the Stream
TikTok Adam Curtis Inspired, dedicated to Dolly ~"Duet"~
Song: islands in the stream by Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
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solo dev, plundercore
2024
A Tunnel of Love Like Tears in Rain
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
song: Love Theme by Vangelis from Blade Runner
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solo dev, plundercore
2024
Bittersweet Memory
An explorative three part WebGL game that reflects on the malleable nature of memory. In a post cataclysmic event where no world exists anymore, a ghost traumatized by the sudden destruction reflects upon and struggles to rebuild what they remember about their life lived.
This project expresses the surreal and otherworldly nature of building monuments in your mind, especially in response to coping with death and disaster.
Made to be played on the polygon palm site.
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creative director, visual lead, composer, level design, 3D modeling, programming
commissioned by polygon palm for polygon palm plaza residency
2023
TXTbooks: Book Fell into Ocean
En route to Miami, our (TXTbooks) cargo ship sent out a mysterious distress call... CAPTAIN: "Something's happening...dense purple fog...and the engine sounds like it's about to..." [explosion][static] So they sent their Risograph to survey the wreckage an take stock of their losses...for insurance purposes. At the crash site, the cargo ship was found ablaze leaking booxes, palettes, bags of garbage, zines, and original artworks into the water. For some reason, the artworks have taken on an abnormally large size, flat demeanor and smell of lavender?
Pilot our riso drone and catalogue the missing artwork!!
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creative director, visual lead, composer, level design, 3D modeling, programming
for TXTbooks♡
commissioned by Printed Matter Inc. and the Knight Foundation for the Art Basil(Artist Book Fair) Miami
2021
TXTbooks: Videogame Reader the Game Reader
A virtual TXTreader library and virtual exhibition experience created for PMVABF 2021. Drop in and page through the artist's zines in a silly plundercore world of videogame nostalgia bait.TXTreader #3 was curated by Robert Blair, Nichole Shinn, and Kurt Woerpel. The game was conceptualized, created, and developed by Nichole Shinn.
Featuring zines and works by:
Alick Shiu, Maya Filmeridis, Tracy Ma & Wilson Cameron, John Irving, O.K. Fox, Kasey Edgerton, Chelsea Cater, Davis Fowlkes, Michelle Selwa, Jack Nachmanovitch and featuring various villagers from the Lothlorien Gallery Show hosted in Animal Crossing.
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solo dev, creative director, level design, programming, plundercore
for TXTbooks♡
2020
Nichole's Itch.io ❤︎ Ultraviolet Softworks ❤︎ games for my computer
"everything i do is for the 17~yr old version of myself" ~ virgil abloh
Hermetic Refrain
The Fighter, the Diviner, and the Cleric enter a technicolor purgatory hellscape full of gossips and weird little guys. Polly Pocket meets Darkest Dungeon in this opera about people who can't--or won't--let go.
-----------------------
creative director, visual lead, composer, level design, 3D modeling, programming
in partnership with Noa Segal♡
2024-Present
Daydream Heartbeat Cure
An auto-biographic poetic expression dealing with chronic depression and isolation. Help Blue find relief in a lonely moment by dreaming big and beautifully.
-----------------------
solo dev, creative director, composer, level design, animation, programming
2025
Magenta Gunslinger
Take Magenta shooting!!!
song: Machine Maid by Two Lone Swordsmen
-----------------------------
solo dev, creative director, level design, animation, programming
2024
Growth Spurt: A Meandering Intermission into the Afterhours of a Miscalculation
A faux pas at the Middle School dance reverts Nour back to their primordial state and sends them on a one-night maximalist transformative journey. Flop, slide, leap, and rocket around the city filled with zany future friends and mysterious architectures. Play eclectic mini-games where you will discover whether surgery can be joyful, if aliens have feelings, and how to deal with a bad boss.
-------------------------
in partnership with games for my computer♡
recognized by IGF, BAFTA, and A.Maze
2024
Horsegirl goes to Heaven
We often ponder what happens after death...especially what might happen to the elusive horse girls.
Songs: What is it with Girls and Horses by Templeton Thompson, Bonehead by Naked City
-------------------------
solo dev, level design, plundercore
2023
Hypermasculine Black and White Game with Fall Damage
waking up, facing the day rock hard. ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ
songs: girls just want to have fun by starfckr, bonehead by torture garden, tour de france kraftwerk, story of a lonely guy blink 182, my way by limp bizkit, custer by slipknot, creep by radiohead
-----------------------
solo dev, creative director, level design, animation, programming
2024
Spray Drift Down from Dover
A small Poem for my Dad.
Big Helio-Planes don't smoke in bed~
༘⋆༄.°⋆
Song: Some Things Last a Long Time by Beach House
------------------------------
solo dev
2024
The Rip
music video//painting//connecting the dots between:
Love&Death&Life&Materiality&Confusion&Patience.
Death masks are imprints leaving strange likeness behind.
Song: The Rip by Portishead
-----------------------
solo dev
2024
Islands in the Stream
TikTok Adam Curtis Inspired, dedicated to Dolly ~"Duet"~
Song: islands in the stream by Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
--------------
solo dev, plundercore
2024
A Tunnel of Love Like Tears in Rain
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
song: Love Theme by Vangelis from Blade Runner
----------------
solo dev, plundercore
2024
Bittersweet Memory
An explorative three part WebGL game that reflects on the malleable nature of memory. In a post cataclysmic event where no world exists anymore, a ghost traumatized by the sudden destruction reflects upon and struggles to rebuild what they remember about their life lived.
This project expresses the surreal and otherworldly nature of building monuments in your mind, especially in response to coping with death and disaster.
Made to be played on the polygon palm site.
---------------------
creative director, visual lead, composer, level design, 3D modeling, programming
commissioned by polygon palm for polygon palm plaza residency
2023
TXTbooks: Book Fell into Ocean
En route to Miami, our (TXTbooks) cargo ship sent out a mysterious distress call... CAPTAIN: "Something's happening...dense purple fog...and the engine sounds like it's about to..." [explosion][static] So they sent their Risograph to survey the wreckage an take stock of their losses...for insurance purposes. At the crash site, the cargo ship was found ablaze leaking booxes, palettes, bags of garbage, zines, and original artworks into the water. For some reason, the artworks have taken on an abnormally large size, flat demeanor and smell of lavender?
Pilot our riso drone and catalogue the missing artwork!!
---------------
creative director, visual lead, composer, level design, 3D modeling, programming
for TXTbooks♡
commissioned by Printed Matter Inc. and the Knight Foundation for the Art Basil(Artist Book Fair) Miami
2021
TXTbooks: Videogame Reader the Game Reader
A virtual TXTreader library and virtual exhibition experience created for PMVABF 2021. Drop in and page through the artist's zines in a silly plundercore world of videogame nostalgia bait.TXTreader #3 was curated by Robert Blair, Nichole Shinn, and Kurt Woerpel. The game was conceptualized, created, and developed by Nichole Shinn.
Featuring zines and works by:
Alick Shiu, Maya Filmeridis, Tracy Ma & Wilson Cameron, John Irving, O.K. Fox, Kasey Edgerton, Chelsea Cater, Davis Fowlkes, Michelle Selwa, Jack Nachmanovitch and featuring various villagers from the Lothlorien Gallery Show hosted in Animal Crossing.
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solo dev, creative director, level design, programming, plundercore
for TXTbooks♡
2020
