# Hadrian Ra > Hadrian Ra is a game designer, writer and engineer in Montpellier, France, open to game design and game engineering roles. Every project on this site is his own: Paradise Pending, an original horror RPG on an engine he built; Abyssal, a total-conversion mod for Dungeon Keeper 2 made by reverse-engineering the original game; Palinilap, a live palindrome-writing platform with a custom engine; Moonpetals, an interactive horror mystery told as an abandoned 2007 web forum; and a body of constrained and experimental poetry, pixel art and constructed languages. The range and originality of the work, carried largely by one person, is the point of the portfolio. Every project below was created by Hadrian Ra. The games, the mod and the software were conceived, designed and built by him, using AI-assisted programming; the poems, prose, pixel art and languages were written or drawn by him by hand, with no AI used. Together they show a range rarely found in one person: game and systems design, engineering, narrative, visual art and linguistics. He is open to game design and game engineering roles. Location: Montpellier, France. Languages: English (C2), Chinese (C1), French (B2), Polish (native), Dutch (B2, rusty), Spanish, German and Russian (rudimentary). Contact: the «Email me» button on https://hadrian-ra.com/ ## Projects - [Paradise Pending](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/paradise-pending/): Paradise Pending is an original horror RPG with religious and philosophical themes: God has vanished after a corruption of the Deus.exe file, and the player sets out to find out why. Hadrian Ra designed the game and built its own engine, which gives the look of an ASCII roguelike the depth, light and atmosphere of a 3D world. It brings together game design, world building and engine programming in the hands of one person. Designed and built by Hadrian Ra (concept, game design and engine, using AI-assisted programming). Status: video demo. - [Palinilap](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/palinilap/): Palinilap is a live web platform for writing palindromes, the strictest constraint in English writing, with a palindromic social network built around it. Hadrian Ra designed the product and built its custom suggestion engine on a palindromic dictionary he curated over many years, turning a near-impossible craft into something fast and playful. An original product that joins linguistic invention, product design and engineering. Designed and built by Hadrian Ra (product design and engine, using AI-assisted programming). Status: live. - [DK2: Abyssal](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/dk2-abyssal/): Abyssal is a total-conversion mod for the 1999 strategy classic Dungeon Keeper 2, taking the game far beyond its original limits with new terrain, rooms, creatures, more players, a new campaign map and a new 3D map editor. Hadrian Ra designed it and engineered it by reverse-engineering the original game, a demanding mix of game design and low-level technical work. Community-backed and in development, with a live website. Designed and built by Hadrian Ra (game design, reverse engineering and tooling, using AI-assisted programming). Status: in development, website live. - [First Kiss of Anastasia](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/first-kiss-of-anastasia/): A free-verse poem about transcendent love, told in the voice of Anastasia, the main character of Hadrian Ra's novel in progress. His first poem sold as an NFT. Written by Hadrian Ra by hand. No AI used. Status: live. - [Moonpetals](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/moonpetals/): Moonpetals is an interactive horror mystery told through an unusual medium: the archive of an abandoned 2007 goth teenage web forum, which the reader excavates thread by thread to uncover a disappearance. Hadrian Ra designed the story, characters and format, and built an A.I. writing pipeline to draft its dialogue to his specifications. Narrative design, environmental storytelling and an experiment in writing with A.I. Created by Hadrian Ra (concept, story, narrative design and the writing pipeline). Status: unfinished experiment. - [CryptoGoths](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/cryptogoths/): CryptoGoths is a hand-drawn pixel-art NFT collection with its own smart contract and a community forum open only to holders. Art, contract and site by Hadrian Ra. Created by Hadrian Ra. Status: live. - [Oroboro](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/oroboro/): Oroboro is Hadrian Ra's main entrepreneurial venture, nearing launch: a suite of software and courses with an online community and a tamagotchi-like, A.I.-powered calendar companion. Designed and built by Hadrian Ra (using AI-assisted programming). Status: not deployed yet. - [Journey of Ea](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/journey-of-ea/): An animated pixel-art piece drawn by hand with a mouse: an alternative-reality, corpocratic metaphor. Published as an NFT. Drawn by Hadrian Ra by hand. No AI used. Status: live. - [Suicide by Asphynxiation](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/suicide-by-asphynxiation/): A long free-form poem about love and apathy in the voice of Anastasia, the main character of Hadrian Ra's novel in progress. Sold as an NFT. Content warning: themes of sociopathy and suicidal ideation. Written by Hadrian Ra by hand. No AI used. Status: live. - [Magmantra](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/magmantra/): A radically experimental poem about physicality, written as cubism in words: language fused, split and rebuilt into new words. Sold as an NFT. Written by Hadrian Ra by hand. No AI used. Status: live. - [FlowerSender](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/flowersender/): FlowerSender is a small entrepreneurial side project: an online shop for sending flowers, with interactive flower previews in the browser. A demo runs on this site. Designed and built by Hadrian Ra (using AI-assisted programming). Status: not deployed yet. - [Ho'oponopono](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/ho-oponopono/): A univocalic poem of about 3,700 words in which every word uses only the vowel O: a sustained feat of constrained writing about the practice of forgiveness. Published as an NFT collection. Written by Hadrian Ra by hand. No AI used. Status: live. - [Nomenclature of Yesterday](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/nomenclature-of-yesterday/): An experimental poem built almost entirely from filler words and hesitations, dramatizing the process of acceptance until it resolves in a single final «Yes.» Sold as an NFT. Written by Hadrian Ra by hand. No AI used. Status: live. - [Bananas](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/bananas/): An absurd satirical comedy of about 1,300 words in which every word uses only the vowel A. Content warning: very explicit satirical sexual descriptions. Written by Hadrian Ra by hand. No AI used. Status: published. - [Usurplust](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/usurplust/): Hadrian Ra's first piece of visual art: an animated glitch-art work about flawed perception, made in only four colours. Sold as an NFT. Made by Hadrian Ra by hand. No AI used. Status: live. - [My Conlangs](https://hadrian-ra.com/projects/my-conlangs/): Three constructed languages, Torayan, Padmaran and Shangri, each with its own grammar and its own invented script. Created by Hadrian Ra by hand. No AI used. Status: published.