About
Uncle Matt is the guy in the back of the shop who'd rather show you than tell you. I build things (games, gadgets, little simulated worlds) and I like to highlight the mistakes, because those are where we can learn the most.
During the week I'm Matt Scott, and I make games at a game studio. That's the day job: real deadlines, a real team, the works. Uncle Matt Makes is the other bench. It's where the personal projects live, built on my own time, a slave to nothing but my own hyperfocus.
I've always been a sucker for "how'd they do that." The making-of, the commentary track, the post where somebody finally shows the seams. This site is me trying to return the favor: how I did it, and why I did it. The why is usually the part that gets left out, and it's usually the part I actually wanted to know.
I'm not an expert. I'm stubborn. The difference is mostly that I keep going after the thing breaks. I don't always know what I'm doing, but that hasn't stopped me so far. If you're a beginner staring at a pile of parts wondering if you're allowed to just try, then yeah. You are. That's the whole idea here.
Want to watch the digital sawdust fly in something closer to real time? I post the works-in-progress on Bluesky.