chris karpyszyn / montreal

Twenty years building software. Still building for the fun of it.

By day I run development at Traction Rec, where we make Salesforce apps for recreation and community organizations. In the gaps I'm finishing Typing Stars, a relaxing typing game about being alone in space with an AI that insists everything is fine.

One of them pays the bills. Both of them ship.

both of them

Typing Stars

solo dev / unity / demo on steam

A relaxing typing game. Mostly. You wake up alone on a spaceship with a terminal and a very helpful AI that would like you to keep typing. Race the clock, climb the leaderboards, try not to notice which words come out wrong. There's a kids' mode with all the typing and none of the dread.

Built solo, mostly live on Twitch, over more evenings than I planned. The demo is out now. The full game is coming when it's right, which is a sentence I have said before.

Traction Rec

the day job / salesforce

We build Salesforce-native software for YMCAs, JCCs, and community centres: memberships, programs, childcare, the systems a community runs on. My job is making sure it ships. The team, the standards, the roadmap, and enough time in the code to keep my opinions honest.

Twenty years in, the part I care about hasn't changed. Build it well, ship it, stand behind it.

side b
  • A1 Youth hockey. I coach. The kids get faster every year and I do not.
  • A2 A backyard rink that fights me every winter and usually wins.
  • B1 Vinyl, through a chain chosen with more care than most of my furniture. Heavy rotation: Thursday, Cursive, Jawbreaker, My Bloody Valentine.
  • B2 Currently reading The Peregrine and early 90s X-Men, in alternating order.
contact

Not looking for anything. Findable anyway. If you want to talk about the game, the work, or why the second Thursday record is the best one, this works: