Max St Hill

ide By Side is a bold, colour-driven puzzle game developed and designed under Orthors — built collaboratively with a developer friend in just a couple of weeks as a passion project to stay sharp across design, development, marketing and App Store deployment. Sometimes the best projects are the ones you build for yourself. Every element — from the game UI and visual identity to the App Store marketing assets — was designed in-house. Bold colours and strong typography make it stand out on the shelf, and shipping a real product to the App Store is always a valuable reminder of the full end-to-end process. A fun project that delivered real skills.

• 3D Modeler
• Game Designer
• Game Developer
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End-to-end design and production of 30+ digital magazine covers for Motor Sport Magazine, published across the Motor Sport App and Apple News+. Working closely with the magazine's editorial team, I owned the full digital workflow, from cover design and art direction through to article curation, layout and final quality checks before each issue went live.

• 3D Modeler
• Game Designer
• Game Developer
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I'm the founder and designer of PixL, a TikTok-style app where every post in the feed is a mobile game you can play straight away. I built the platform end to end, from the product and UI design to the React Native app, backend, social features and developer portal. I've also designed and built more than 45 games for it, covering puzzles, arcade, action, shooters, racers, platformers, strategy, brain training and classic board games, so if it's a genre, I've probably made it. Several of those games have also been released as standalone apps on the App Store. For every game I handled the concept, game mechanics, difficulty balancing, art direction and UI, all designed for vertical, one-thumb play. I used AI-assisted development to go from idea to a playable game fast, which let me test, refine and ship at a pace a traditional studio couldn't match.

• 3D Modeler
• Game Designer
• Game Developer
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