About Me
Hi there! I'm Noah Kastin (aka Wikikinetic), a game designer, producer, writer, and programmer. You can find a business-oriented summary of all this on my resume or on Linkedin, but from a more personal angle, the sections below will give details on my activity across the sites I call home.
Game Architecture & Programming
I do AI-assisted programming and unassisted architecture for games, including video games and tabletop roleplaying games.
On the programming/video game side, I branched out from writing a Python tool for depicting character relationship maps to writing a fully-fledged iOS AI-powered roguelike, a web-based first-person melee game, and maybe the one I'm most proud of: The Club Penguin Builder, a fully-legal Metaverse for building games in the genre of the original Club Penguin. If you'd like to make your own Club Penguins—and even make money!—but are worried about getting shot down by Disney, give this a look! I'd love to chat about the semantics.
On the architecture side, if you're looking to make or modify tabletop roleplaying games rather than Club Penguins, I've made Master, a tool allowing you to quickly and easily create your own tabletop roleplaying games. I've made dozens of games with this tool, linked in that page's footer. You can too! I also used to produce many supplements for the Hero System, a popular tabletop roleplaying game series, most famously the military sci-fi action game Bend, plus a number of others.
To suggest new content or inquire about my game design work, just contact me!
Music Production
I produce, record, and create music for anyone I find artistic compatibility with, including Fode Sissoko, myself, and potentially you!. My own music is mostly synth jazz music inspired by jazz musicians of the 60s–80s such as Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis, as well as by more recent artists from the 90s onwards, most notably Skaven 252's Bejeweled 2 sountrack. You can listen to music I've produced on my music website, as well as on DriveThruRPG. If you want to ask me to produce a song for you, negotiate further on derivative licensing, or just get in touch about music, contact me!
Writing & Art
I published a YA urban fantasy anthology with a middle-grade seuqel! I also continually add bits of story to the unpaid, sprawling multiple-ending story Westfall, a web game based on the popular role-playing game World of Warcraft. I used to created free fan content, which you can find for free on Fandom. And lastly, I draw and write a slice-of-life comic called Sharing Walls, which is a parody of the aforementioned World of Warcraft.
Past Projects
I was a Wiki Manager at Fandom between August and October 2019, during which time I created and/or managed twenty wikis. I've also done a large volume of edits at Wikipedia, including maintaining an article page on a well-known TV series for a year and helping orchestrate the creation of systems for recognizing the good work of others. Here's a list of some of my best work on the site.
Licensing
Want to use one of my works as part of something you're making? Awesome! I'd be honored. If you're looking to use one of my TTRPGs, they're all released under CC-BY, so you can do whatever you please with them as long as you credit the author(s)! For derivatives of my music, though, I'd like 50% of the proceeds of the derivatives. Don't see something you want to use listed here, or want to negotiate further on prices? Contact me!
Stay In Touch
If you want to work with me on a project, create something based on my work (such as a derivative of one of my songs), or reach out with any other kind of business proposition, just send me email—I can’t wait to hear from you!
If you have Discord, you can also join my game server or my music server for updates on those things.
I look forward to hearing from you!