Programmer / Game Designer

Contact: xavierleemackay@gmail.com

Hi I’m Xavier. I’m a game developer based in Brisbane. I specialize in gameplay programming and game design. I have studied a Bachelor of Games and Interactive Environments at QUT with a Systems Technology major and a Game Design minor.

Portfolio

Pantry Panic!

Pantry Panic is a frantic VR cooking game set in the hottest diner in the galaxy. Players must prepare wacky alien ingredients under the instruction of Chef Glorberto. 

Developed in a team of four from February 2026 to June 2026.

Fortune Fishing Mania!!!!

Fortune Fishing Mania is an intense fishing simulation game where players must catch a variety of spectacular tropical fish. 

Solo developed from November 2025 to January 2026.

Rust Millennium

Rust Millennium is a real time strategy game set in a post apocalyptic power struggle where you can command colossal mechs and loyal soldiers.

Solo developed from June 2024 to July 2025. 

 

Zom-B-Mart

Zom-B-Mart is a four player couch co-op party game in which you and your friends must operate a supermarket during the zombie apocalypse.

This game is my current project it is being made in partnership with Gameloft Brisbane as part of my final year QUT Capstone project. 

Firesticks

Firesticks is a educational game targeted at year six students focusing on teaching them about indigenous fire practices.

Developed in a team of four from July 2025 to October 2025.

Cult of the Devourer

Cult of the Devourer is a survivor-like where you play as an ancient lovecraftian parasite terrorizing the townsfolk in a village .

Developed in a team of six from March 2025 to May 2025.

A Brief Commute

A Brief Commute is a short walking simulator based of René Magritte’s 1953 work, Golconda. In this game you play as a hurried office worker who mysteriously begins floating on his way to work. 

Solo developed in November 2024.

 

PentaZorg

PentaZorg is a fast paced arcade bullet hell game in which players must avoid abstract patterns of moving squares. 

Solo developed from April 2023 to December 2023.

 

Spacehog

Spacehog is a horde survival shoot-em-up taking place above glistening science fiction cityscape.

Solo developed in February 2025 to March 2025.

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Contact:
xavierleemackay@gmail.com