Game server developer
Mods · Discord bots · Server automation
I build the software that keeps a game server alive when nobody is watching it — and the mods that make it worth logging into.
About
Everything here started the same way: something on my own server was broken, tedious, or doing the opposite of what my players wanted, and nobody had built the fix.
BetterScum came first — a hardcore SCUM PvPvE server where the world fights back. Running it meant hours of admin work every night, so I wrote a bot to do it. That bot became Vardyn, and other server owners started paying to run it on theirs.
Then the same thing happened in Valheim. My mod list kept arguing with itself, so I wrote MidgardPlus to replace twenty mods with one that defaults to vanilla and lets the host decide.
The pattern I keep coming back to: build it so it can be turned off. Every feature is a switch, defaults match the base game, and nothing assumes it knows the players better than the person running the server does.
Selected work
Not prototypes. A paid product with subscribers, a live game server with a community, and a released mod anyone can install right now.
One mod instead of twenty that fight each other. 25 settings that all start at vanilla, so nothing changes until you turn it on.
irm https://midgardplus.odinthered.dev/install.ps1 | iex
A hosted Discord bot that runs a living world on someone else’s SCUM server, sold as a monthly subscription with paying customers.
PHP · Python · Discord · Stripe billing · multi-tenant nginx
Visit vardynbot.com
The server the rest of it was built for, and the reason any of it exists.
SCUM · server ops · community management
Visit betterscum.comWhat I actually do
C# against a compiled game with Harmony runtime patches. No source, no documentation — you reflect over the assemblies and verify every hook before you write it.
Discord bots that do the admin job a human was doing at 2am. Scheduling, state, permissions, and a control panel so the owner never edits a config file.
One box, many customers, each isolated with their own bot, subdomain, certificate and secrets. Provisioning that does not need me awake.
Billing, support, uptime and the angry message at midnight. Shipping is the easy half; I do the half that comes after.
Custom features, a bot for your server, or a mod that does the thing nobody has built yet. Discord is fastest; email is fine for anything you would rather not post publicly.