Inspection & quality assurance
Inspected, tested, repaired, and certified munitions against technical standards. Contributed to the development of QA programs and procedures, with safety and consistency at the center of the work.
IDEAS › SYSTEMS › DESIGN
CRANBERRYCLOCK™
Game Developer · Technical Designer · Experimental Systems Builder
I build games, tools, engines, and weird technical
experiments that make play possible.
Ideas.
Systems.
Design.↙
GAMES
TOOLS
ENGINES
EXPERIMENTS
ALWAYS.
Selected Work
REAL QUESTIONS. PRACTICAL SYSTEMS. PLAYABLE IDEAS.
Professional game work
Design contributions and collaboration.
Happy! the Hippo
Content / Level / Gameplay Designer · R&D
January 2021 – October 2023 · Gurbo Games
R&D gameplay and level design, proving mechanics and level flow before the project moved into production.
Past professional work · R&D
Flat Kingdom Paper's Cut Edition
External Game Design Consultant
48-hour design triage + consultation
A 48-hour gameplay design triage and consultation, initiated through a publisher meeting at PAX East ahead of the game’s revised edition.
Past professional work · Consultation
Current projects & recent R&D
Independent games, tools, and technical experiments.
FrameBridge
A browser-to-native rendering experiment, built to test where the connection works and what it costs.
Research prototype
MM-MOW
Turning mowing, clippings, and equipment maintenance into a connected Unreal gameplay loop.
In development
AiD10t Games
A human-directed AI game studio exploring specialized agent workflows through Cogworks.
Experimental
AI-Native Retro Engine
Designing a retro game engine around clear authoring rules for people and AI-assisted tools.
Design exploration
Cogworks
A clockwork routing puzzle where paths and timing turn mechanical thoughts into ordered meaning.
Playable prototype
AetherOS
An agent-first authoring engine built around changes you can inspect, validate, apply, and undo.
Working prototype
godot-swarm
Exploring large interactive swarms through GPU compute, local behavior, and an inspectable rendering path.
Experimental prototype
RPGQueue
Game design / addon development
A queue-only incremental companion game inside World of Warcraft. Care for Grub while waiting for a dungeon or raid.
Prototype
KillingBlow
Addon concept / development
A cinematic death-screen prototype for World of Warcraft, combining a staged character scene, damage summary, and player-controlled actions.
Prototype · presentation unresolved
Behind the build
SKETCH. BLOCK OUT. TEST. ITERATE.
The working side of design: level blockouts, rough sketches, and tools from my earlier portfolio. A look at the process behind the projects.
01 / EDITOR CAPTUREView original ↗Playable spaces, in progress
An environment under construction, with editor guides, traversal elements, and unfinished surfaces visible.
02 / FLOW SKETCHView original ↗Thinking through the route
Hand-drawn puzzle spaces and an annotated player route. Design decisions begin long before final art.
03 / LEVEL BLOCKOUTView original ↗Reading the whole level
Multiple views of a working level layout, bringing paths, elevation, and the overall space into one study.
04 / TOOLING CAPTUREView original ↗Tools for experimentation
A primitive-shape scene and its controls, preserved from the tooling section of my earlier portfolio.
The Lab
EXPERIMENTS. PROTOTYPES. WEIRD IDEAS.
GoRD
GPT tool development / reference-library design
An early GPT-based GDScript specialist, grounded in Godot patterns and C# equivalents for the Godot 4 transition.
Past work
mrgl-mrgl.com
Creator / PHP search-engine development
2009 public beta · Snobold archived in 2011
A PHP search engine built to collect, check, and organize World of Warcraft links. The history of MRGL and its successor, Snobold.
Defunct · historical project
Procedural World Tools
Unreal tooling / procedural generation
Exploring procedural generation through Unreal Engine tooling.
Past work
LachhhTools
Independent maintenance / commissioned fixes
Commissioned updates and fixes for streamers using a modified LachhhTools codebase after original support ended.
Historical · maintenance ended
MARK “CRANBERRYCLOCK” WILLETT
I learned systems
before I learned
game engines.
About
SAME PERSON. DIFFERENT WORLDS.
I'm Mark “CranberryClock” Willett—a game developer, technical designer, and experimental systems builder.
My background includes roughly 14 years in the U.S. Air Force working with technical systems, quality assurance, training, and automation. That left me with a habit: understand the system, test the assumptions, then build the thing. Explore my military experience ↓
Today, that curiosity takes me through gameplay, tools, rendering, and AI-assisted development. Usually with a slightly unreasonable question to answer.
My professional game work includes R&D mechanics and level-flow prototyping for Happy! the Hippo and a 48-hour design triage and consultation on Flat Kingdom Paper's Cut Edition, credited as Mayples. I earned my B.S. in Game Design at Full Sail University, studying from 2011 to 2014.
Read my story and the origins of Forge ↗
- GAME DESIGN
- TECHNICAL SYSTEMS
- TOOLS & ENGINES
- EXPERIMENTS
PROFESSIONAL FOUNDATION / 2004–2018
United States
Air Force
Munitions inspection · Explosive safety · Retired
Systems thinking, tested in practice.
My military career brought together hands-on technical inspection, quality assurance, team leadership, and the development of tools and training. The work required clear procedures, reliable information, and a shared understanding of what a successful result looked like.
Those habits carry into my work today: make complex systems understandable, give people useful tools, and validate what you build.
Technical training & documentation
Developed lesson plans, explosive-safety testing content, and a field-guide content portal. Worked on the transition from paper technical documents to digital resources that people could use in the field.
Tracking & automation
Developed and integrated munitions tracking systems across multiple bases. Led a development team on a Combat Accountability System automation strategy using RFID identification.
Leadership & coordination
Supervised technical teams, coordinated work across agencies, and translated technical requirements into documented procedures. My training included leadership, teaching, munitions inspection, and quality assurance.
Understand the system→Define the procedure→Equip the team→Validate the result
Contact
LET'S BUILD SOMETHING GREAT.
Open to opportunities, collaborations, and interesting problems.
Have something in mind? I'd love to hear about it.