“Koda” is Scott William Dudley
Thirty years of shipping things on the Internet. Indie and AAA games, distributed systems, web platforms, blockchain experiments, and physical builds. I like the parts where code meets the world.
Online communities of every shape and size, for thirty years. From early BBSes to a 700,000-member platform at Gaia.com to a Burning Man regional org I helped lead through its biggest year. Communities are built; they don't happen.
I write about building things, leading people, and the future of decentralized systems. Blogging since 1996, paid author at CryptoSlate, presented at SXSW Interactive.
Senior Software Engineer
Primary engineer at a legal services firm specializing in asbestos claims. Introduced engineering best practices to a previously ad-hoc team.
Achieved 20x improvement in legal claim processing throughput through automation
See full history →Founder & Lead Engineer
Founded an interactive media company at the intersection of gaming and blockchain. Built Orbiter 8, a fully on-chain decentralized space MMO, and PolyDice.
First place, Moonriver Grants Hackathon, gaming category (April 2022)
See full history →Software Engineer III
Five years on the engineering team of one of North America's largest Magic: The Gathering retailers, working across e-commerce, fraud prevention, and infrastructure.
Implemented fraud detection that eliminated $100,000+ in annual credit card losses
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A fully decentralized space trading MMO: all game logic lives in Solidity smart contracts. No central server.
A memorial art installation: a bridge with spiral staircases forming an infinity symbol, built with no prior large-scale art experience.
A 12-year overland camper van build: equal parts engineering project, art piece, and way of life.
Built in one evening with Nino. Demoed at Arapahoe Basin the next day. Make Magazine called it the world's first.
A custom online community that grew to 700,000 members in nine months.
The high school game whose weekly dev updates became blogging before the word existed.
A AAA western FPS published by Atari on the Unreal Engine. Programmer credit for enemy AI, UI, mini-games, animation scripting, and environmental effects.
View all credits →$5,000 USD awarded to bring Orbiter 8 to the Polygon network. March 2022.
View all awards →Presented alongside Microsoft on applying game design principles to web development. Twenty-five years ago at SXSW Interactive, representing Gathering of Developers.
View all talks →Originally posted to Facebook For reasons that may or may not be built around my own confirmation bias, I expect the next bear stock market to trigger the same kind of financial crisis we saw when the housing...
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