Hi, I'm René "Havoc" Nicolaus.
Senior Software Engineer • Indie Game Developer
I build engines, editors, tools, libraries, web apps, and games - from a Half-Life mod to a Doom-style engine.
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Portals
A Doom-style game engine for a future game project.
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havPreviewHandler
Updated
Released
A shell extension DLL for File Explorer on Windows 11 that provides animated image previews and representative static thumbnails for GIF, WebP, and PNG files (including APNG content in PNG containers), plus still-frame preview / thumbnail support for MP4 and WMV files.
havTermViper
Released
A terminal game and the official showcase project for havTermKit.