I’m Nathan. My main interests are philosophy of mind, morality, truth, and justice.

I write fiction, compose music, and build games and personal computing tools. I studied Humanities and East Asian Studies at Florida State University, and I study Japanese.

Selected projects

Futari Gurashi

A cozy game for two, from a Saturday around town to a fantasy adventure tied together by a red thread.

Two-player game · In development

jev2mcp

A ChatGPT companion that selects tools from a prompt and attaches them before sending.

Jev demo · Open source

In line

Simulated money flows toward bills and savings as Jev sorts charges and chooses what to fund next.

Jev demo · Wallet simulation

The Backrooms

A first-person world where Jev chooses the architectural spaces that appear as you explore.

Jev demo · Exploration prototype

Burlington

A game about routine, repetition, and an increasingly strange Florida home. I also compose its music.

Narrative game · Prototype

Midnight

A story about rewriting history and remembering realities that no longer exist. I’m writing it and composing music for it.

Fiction · In development

Personal context

A private system connecting notes, local data, and AI tools for planning, Japanese study, and personal knowledge.

Personal computing · Ongoing

Reading

  • Meditations — Marcus AureliusTranslated by George Long
  • Apology, Phaedo, and Crito — PlatoTranslated by Benjamin Jowett
  • Flow — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • The Tale of Genji — Murasaki ShikibuTranslated by Dennis Washburn
  • Tao Te Ching — Lao TzuTranslated by D. C. Lau
  • The Art of War — Sun Tzu

Favorite anime

  1. My Hero Academia
  2. Monster
  3. Clannad
  4. Code Geass
  5. Steins;Gate