I’ve been making games for nearly 20 years; programming, designing, and, generally, doing whatever's possible to create systems and experiences that are capable of more than I thought possible. It's those systems that allow developers to find unexpected interactions, boundless possibilities, and provide players with the agency and freedom to come away with stories and experiences that are truly unique because of their own particular brand of hope, imagination, and chaos they bring along with them.
Games shouldn't just be the stories we write, they should be the stories that unfold from a scenario and toolset we present players. I've dedicated my career to try and constantly push beyond conventional boundaries and it's taken from platform to platform, language to language, across indie PC studios to multiple forms of AAA development to research into rendering solutions and procedural generation and even to finding ways to bring educational game experiences into school cirriculums.
I'm still always trying to find a way to balance work so that I can include whatever I can as a public resource for others to use and, hopefully, that manifests in some really fun ways for others someday.
🌍 I'm based in a tiny town near Lansing, Michigan.
🖥️ See my portfolio at Trent Polack's Internet Website.
✉️ You can contact me through any of the buttons below (I recommend email).
I'm currently working primarily with Unreal Engine 5, Unity, Houdini, Gaea 2, World Creator, and EmberGen to find content workflows that fit neatly into well-designed, well-architected flexible, emergent systems that can all work together to create the basis for truly unique experiences. I could use a few more hours in each day to do so, but in the mean time it's the eternal work/fun/life balancing act, but I'll get there.
🐱 My GitHub Data
📦 2.7 MB Used in GitHub's Storage
🏆 63 Contributions in the Year 2026
💼 Opted to Hire
📜 46 Public Repositories
🔑 29 Private Repositories
I'm a Night 🦉
🌞 Morning 593 commits ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 13.07 %
🌆 Daytime 1154 commits ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 25.44 %
🌃 Evening 1519 commits ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 33.48 %
🌙 Night 1271 commits ███████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 28.01 %
📅 I'm Most Productive on Wednesday
Monday 557 commits ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 12.28 %
Tuesday 765 commits ████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 16.86 %
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Friday 633 commits ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 13.95 %
Saturday 454 commits ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 10.01 %
Sunday 606 commits ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 13.36 %
📊 This Week I Spent My Time On
🕑︎ Time Zone: America/New_York
💬 Programming Languages:
C++ 3 hrs 37 mins ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 25.37 %
Markdown 2 hrs 49 mins █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 19.85 %
Objective-C 2 hrs 42 mins █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 19.04 %
YAML 1 hr 57 mins ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 13.76 %
Other 1 hr 35 mins ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 11.16 %
🔥 Editors:
JetBrainsRider 5 hrs 48 mins ██████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 40.74 %
VS Code 4 hrs 51 mins █████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 34.04 %
Rider 3 hrs 35 mins ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 25.21 %
GitKraken 0 secs ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 00.01 %
🐱💻 Projects:
Starward 4 hrs 25 mins ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 31.02 %
trentpolack 3 hrs 25 mins ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 23.99 %
JoyCore 2 hrs 54 mins █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 20.34 %
Unknown Project 2 hrs 45 mins █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 19.33 %
UnrealEngine 32 mins █░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 03.80 %
💻 Operating System:
Windows 14 hrs 15 mins █████████████████████████ 100.00 %
I Mostly Code in C++
C++ 14 repos ██████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 24.14 %
TypeScript 12 repos █████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 20.69 %
C# 8 repos ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 13.79 %
ShaderLab 2 repos █░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 03.45 %
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