AVERY MILLARD

Indie game developer · Orlando, FL

Avery Millard

I build systems-driven 3D games in Unity, with mechanics grounded in something real. Currently developing The Zenith Initiative, a first-person game about restoring a dead planet.

FOCUSUnity / C# · Real-time 3D
SHIPPED4 released games + team sim work
DEGREEB.S. Computer Science, UCF '25
// current build

In development

TZI screenshot — a cyan beam aimed at a bright moon in a deep violet night sky

ACTIVE BUILD

The Zenith Initiative

A first-person resource puzzle game built on real spectroscopic data. You read planets the way astronomers actually do, by their light. Tune a laser across color, range, and intensity to identify elements, extract them, and slowly terraform a dead world back to life.

Solo project: design, systems programming, and the GDD-to-Unity pipeline, end to end.

EngineUnity / C#
PerspectiveFirst-person 3D
Core loopScan · extract · restore
StatusIn development
// released

Shipped games

Fling-A-Ling screenshot, a green shipping crate in an office scene with a whiteboard reading Guy launching up 100% this quarter

Fling-A-Ling

A 3D ragdoll-flinging game. Fling your ragdolls around an office space to rescue coworkers trapped in cages. Built as a 48-hour team project at the Orlando Game Jam.

RELEASED FEB 2026PLAY ↗

Polar Shift screenshot, a top-down tile grid puzzle with magnet pickups

Polar Shift

A 2D top-down puzzle game about using magnets to navigate toward the biggest magnet of all: the North Pole.

RELEASED DEC 2025PLAY ↗

Carnival Conquest screenshot, a cat character near a ferris wheel in a carnival environment

Carnival Conquest

A 3D 1v1 carnival minigame battle across five minigames. Players race to set and hold the highest score in as many games as possible within a 2-minute round; most high scores wins.

RELEASED FEB 2025PLAY ↗

Rise of the Numbers screenshot, a dark space background with a numbered enemy and score display

Rise of the Numbers

My first game jam submission: a vertical shooter where you fire numbers at falling numbers. Numbers combine and are destroyed once they turn odd.

RELEASED APR 2024PLAY ↗

Full catalog lives at avmworks.itch.io ↗

// ucf & team builds

University & collaborative work

Slime Lab screenshot — a green slime navigating a tiled puzzle dungeon room from a top-down view

Slime Lab

A top-down 3D puzzle dungeon crawler built at UCF. Guide a lab-grown slime through seeded, room-by-room facilities. Every run generates a new layout to route, solve, and survive. Headed to itch.io eventually.

My focus was the procedural generation, built from scratch, including the room-rotation logic that keeps the layout coherent as you move from room to room.

UCF PROJECT · UNITY / C#TOP-DOWN 3D

HTTX (Holotable Table Top Exercise)

Senior capstone with UCF's METIL Lab: an instructor-led, multiplayer tactical training simulation for 6+ participants, built in Unity with Mirror networking. Trainees coordinate across role-specific views (law enforcement, fire department, dispatcher, instructor) to contain a simulated radiological theft as the instructor drives the scenario through phased stages. Designed to eventually run on a holographic table, though the team didn't reach that integration.

My main focus was role development: defining what each role could actually see and do, from an instructor's exclusive control over phase progression down to which cameras, tools, and units a given trainee had access to. I also did some minor tooling work and light level design, blocking out the hospital map we were handed empty.

UCF METIL LAB · CAPSTONEGITHUB ↗

// background

About

I'm a software engineer and game developer based in the Orlando area. I've shipped four games through local game jams, and I'm currently deep in a solo project, The Zenith Initiative, that's grown into something much bigger than a jam scope.

I think in systems. When I'm designing a game or debugging someone else's code, I'm usually trying to find the underlying rules first, then see what I can build once I actually understand them.

Recent work outside my own projects includes a full-stack school administration system built for my mom's school under deadline (Raspberry Pi, FastAPI, SQLite, real HTTPS), and simulation tooling for UCF's METIL Lab back in school.

Languages — C#, C, Python, Java, JavaScript, HTML, PHP, Assembly
Tools — Unity, Godot, Unreal, Git, Docker, React, Node.js, FastAPI, mySQL, MongoDB, SQLite
Elsewhere — AI/LLM evaluation, game systems design, real-time 3D, server deployment (nginx, Tailscale, PyInstaller)

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Get in touch

averymillard.dev@gmail.com
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