🕹️ What happens when a software engineer misses the strange, experimental magic of the Nintendo 64 and original PlayStation era? Apparently, he builds an entirely new game console. Meet Nova64: a JavaScript-powered 3D fantasy console inspired by chunky polygons, mysterious cartridges, CRT glow, demoscene creativity, and the wonderfully weird software of the late ’90s. I designed and engineered Nova64 as an open platform where developers can create a game cartridge in JavaScript and launch it instantly—no actual plastic cartridge blowing required. 😄 Underneath the playful exterior is some seriously fun engineering: 🎮 A shared game-development API across Three.js, Babylon.js, and Godot 🧠 JavaScript running natively through an embedded QuickJS engine 🕹️ A custom RetroArch core for playing Nova64 cartridges alongside classic systems 🛠️ A browser-based studio with Monaco, hot reloading, and developer tools 🌎 3D graphics, physics, particles, shaders, audio, controllers, voxel worlds, and WebXR 💾 More than 70 playable demos and experimental cartridges 🖥️ A Mac OS 9-inspired desktop—because modern software could use more personality Nova64 isn’t an N64 emulator, and it isn’t pretending to be a historical machine. It’s a new creative platform built around a question I couldn’t resist exploring: What if the next fantasy console used JavaScript cartridges? This project brings together nearly everything I love building: games, graphics, creative tooling, native integration, web technology, nostalgic interfaces, and slightly unreasonable ideas that somehow become real products. I’m not selling Nova64 as a Contra service. I’m sharing it because it demonstrates what’s possible when creative direction and deep engineering live in the same project. If your idea sounds ambitious, interactive, technically unusual—or just a little bit weird—I’d probably love to hear about it. 🚀 Explore Nova64: https://nova64.io (https://nova64.io)View my services: https://contra.com/brendon_smith_axke294z/services?r=brendon_smith_axke294z

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✨ What could your Shopify store become? A lightning-fast custom storefront. A polished iOS and Android shopping app. An interactive product experience customers actually remember. I help ambitious brands turn Shopify into more than an online store. Using Next.js, React, React Native, and Shopify, I can create: 🛍️ High-performance custom Shopify storefronts 📱 Branded mobile apps for iOS and Android ⚡ Fast, responsive product and collection pages 🔎 Intuitive search, filtering, cart, and checkout flows 🎨 Custom interfaces that feel unmistakably yours 🌐 Interactive 3D, animation, and immersive product experiences 🔌 Integrations that connect Shopify with the tools your business depends on With React Native, your store can become a polished mobile shopping experience across both major platforms. With Next.js, we can build a modern storefront with greater creative freedom, excellent performance, and room for experiences that go far beyond a standard theme. Have a product customers need to see in 3D? Want a virtual showroom, interactive configurator, loyalty experience, custom campaign, or something that has never been built before? That’s where things get fun. 🚀 I bring 20+ years of creative technology and engineering experience to every project—from ecommerce and mobile applications to gaming, WebXR, cloud platforms, and production-ready interactive experiences. If you have an ambitious idea, let’s turn it into something fast, joyful, useful, and unforgettable. Explore my services and let’s build something great together: https://contra.com/brendon_smith_axke294z/services?r=brendon_smith_axke294z

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Rock Paper Reality: Holographic Retail Experience for Microsoft I helped develop a responsive WebXR retail experience for Microsoft using 8th Wall, A-Frame, Node.js, and Azure. The application enables shoppers to place, explore, and model life-sized 3D clothing within their physical environment. The interface adapts across mobile phones, desktops, Meta Quest, Microsoft HoloLens, and other XR-enabled devices, delivering an immersive holographic shopping experience through the web without requiring a dedicated app.

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Dictionary.com (https://Dictionary.com) UI work, Games, Component Design, AB Testing, Feature Flagging, Storybook

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Brendon Smith

AI first software engineer and creator