Independent developer · Web · Mobile · Unity
I'm Maxwell Cadman. I design and build complete products on my own — from the first idea through to the store listing — across web platforms, native mobile apps and Unity games.
Selected products, designed, engineered and shipped across web, iOS and Android.
Selected work
Four published products and the studio behind them. Each project brings its story, website and available app downloads together in one place.
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Live · Web, iOS & Android
A calm, modern home for an ancient practice. A multilingual website brings together casting and a searchable library of all 64 hexagrams, while local-first iOS and Android apps support readings, reflection and journaling offline.
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02
Free on iOS & Android
A turn-based alchemy game about reading a changing cauldron. Ten handcrafted career orders, six brewing disciplines and a Daily Cauldron, with reactive ingredients and a brew that can always take one more thing — or be ruined by it.
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03
Free on Android
Push-your-luck dice with deterministic scoring, an eleven-port career against distinct AI rivals, and connected tables for two to six players. Every roll verified before release.
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04
Free on iOS & Android
Cargo Sort 2.0: sixty contracts across twelve yards, Daily Routes, Side Jobs and a customisable depot. A portrait logistics puzzle with solver-backed hints and interruption-safe recovery.
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05
Live · Studio & storefront
The independent studio behind three published mobile games, bringing brand, storefront, per-game support and privacy together on Cloudflare.
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What I do
Most projects need product thinking and engineering to stay connected. I do both, which removes the hand-offs where intent usually gets lost.
01
Mobile games from prototype to store release — systems, content pipelines, accessibility and build automation.
Unity work
02
Native and React Native applications that work offline first and survive real-world interruption.
Mobile work
03
Fast, accessible, search-focused sites and the auth, payments and email behind them.
Platform work
04
Store submission, release engineering, QA and the operational work that makes a launch hold.
Release work
How I work
Shape
Scope, constraints and success criteria in writing, before anything gets built.
Design
Flows, states and the hard cases — including what happens when things go wrong.
Build
Working software you can open, with tests and accessibility checks carried along the way.
Launch
Store submission, release engineering, monitoring and the follow-up a real launch needs.
About
I'm an independent developer based in Melbourne, Australia. I build across web, mobile and Unity, and I'm happiest turning ambitious ideas into products that feel calm, considered and ready for real users.
I can join at the beginning to help shape the product, or step into an existing build to improve the experience, strengthen the engineering and get it over the line.
For clients that means fewer hand-offs, direct communication, and one person keeping the experience and the implementation moving in the same direction.
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Maxwell Cadman