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The Red Wizard
Games, systems & cloud sorcery — the work of Eric Crook.
The Games
Free browser card puzzle
Cross Current · Sixth Sigil
One turn left. Can you win two lanes?
You start behind in all three lanes with six energy left. Moving a card changes the bonuses in both lanes, so the order of your plays matters. Find the winning sequence. No account required.
Play Cross Current Checking…Virtual tabletop · Web
Grimlight
Enormous dungeons, torchlit and true.
A browser virtual tabletop for D&D 5.5e built for huge maps: server-authoritative fog of war, symmetric shadowcasting vision, dynamic torchlight, and true multiplayer — hidden things never even leave the server.
theredwizard.net/vttThe Craft
Game engineering
Canvas & Phaser engines, WebAudio synthesis, juice systems where every state change is presented — never silent.
tour the architecture →Cloud sorcery
AWS end to end — S3, CloudFront, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Route 53 — provisioned idempotently, deployed with smoke tests.
enter the tour →Systems & languages
Python, Rust, Go, and TypeScript. Server-authoritative multiplayer, anticheat by construction, fast local test loops.
see it in Grimlight →Design & feel
Anticipation-first feedback, sonic lexicons, choreographed motion — a written dopamine design bible, applied to everything on this page.
read the grimoire →The Scroll of Record
The formal version — experience, projects, and skills, on one printable page.