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Websites and systems

Websites, systems, and one game that got out of hand.

Every entry answers the same four questions, whether it is live, unfinished or not even a website. Most of them taught me something I used on the next one, which is the only reason the unfinished ones are worth showing.

Live

02

01

Uncle Tibo

At 299 Kirkdale, coffee happens in the morning and wood-fired pizza at night. The website became useful when Friday bookings had to fit the actual room: live capacity for customers, a night view for staff, and fewer phone calls in the middle of service.

The Uncle Tibo website homepage.
Status
Live
Year
2026
Scope
Brand, site, booking
Stack
Next.js, SQLite

02

Leo Catering

Plant-led events caterer in Sydenham. The page puts the food first and asks for a date and a guest count at the end. No booking engine, no CMS, and nothing for Jack to maintain between jobs.

The Leo Catering website homepage.
Status
Live
Year
2026
Scope
Design and build
Stack
Static site

In the workshop

01

03

Vowmarsh

A dark comedy RPG about a South London wedding and a town that has done this before. It is a wedding present, which I assumed meant a small job: write the jokes, draw the town, hand it over on the day. Instead I learned the whole pipeline. Godot, GDScript, tilemaps, dialogue trees, save states, and how to make flat pixels look lit. 107 scripts, 393 dialogue files, three endings so far. I now know more about this engine than I am ever likely to need again, and I am still going.

  1. Pixel-art top-down view of a South London street: a bus shelter reading VOWMARSH SHUTTLE STOP, WEDDING GUESTS RIDE FREE, TERMS AND CONDITIONS DON'T APPLY, with a chalkboard advertising bacon rolls and townspeople standing about.01 · The town
  2. The village noticeboard in the square, pinned with cards reading Yoga Tues 6pm, Plant Swap Sat, Lost Goose (again), Litter Hurts, Quiet Please and Cake Sale.02 · The noticeboard
  3. A dialogue box over the square with a hand-drawn portrait of Glenn, who says: the scoreboard appears to be malfunctioning, those aren't the numbers I called.03 · A conversation
  4. The ending card on a station platform strewn with confetti: THE LAST TRAIN. Joey Marsh left on the Sunday train, which stopped specially. Somewhere past the marshes, your phone buzzed once. Horrible hour. New town. That's traditional.04 · One of three endings
Status
In progress
Year
2025–
Scope
Solo, thirteen months and counting
Stack
Godot 4.6, GDScript

Not a website

01

04

Faith +1

10pm, watching South Park with my daughter: wouldn't it be cool if Faith+1 had a patch. That should have remained an offhand sentence. By 10:30 I was deep in black-metal logo generators. Some weeks of pretending I knew what I was doing later, an actual embroidered patch arrived from America. It is here because the process was the same as the paid work: somebody says a thing, then comes the boring part where you have to finish it.

  1. The Faith +1 album cover from South Park: a cartoon boy in a brown jacket and cross necklace standing in the sea at sunrise, arms raised, two other boys watching from the rocks.01 · The idea
  2. The same cover reworked in purple and magenta with a spiked black metal logo, lightning, and the two watching figures redrawn as corpse-painted demons.02 · The redraw
  3. The artwork rendered as a die-cut embroidered patch with a green merrowed border and stitched thread texture.03 · Digitised
  4. The finished patch held in one hand, still sealed in its polythene bag with a silica gel sachet.04 · In hand
Status
On a jacket
Year
2026
Scope
One patch, for my daughter
Stack
Photoshop, a logo generator

Also built

03

  • Phaser RPG engine. A turn-based browser RPG with a party, turn order, grid movement and dialogue in JSON. I wanted to know how far an ordinary web stack goes before it stops feeling like a game.

    Phaser, Canvas

  • Form to inbox to CRM. A website enquiry reaches an inbox and a spreadsheet without renting a form builder to carry it there. Boring on purpose.

    n8n, webhooks

  • Content to social. One thing goes in; crops, captions and a schedule come out in three platform-shaped versions. A real Sunday-night problem for people who will never install a workflow tool.

    n8n, OAuth

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