Stylized fantasy artwork for the Jason Muse portfolio homepage

ABOUT ME

Hello! My name is Jason Muse. I'm a Software Engineer and Indie Game Developer with a computer engineering background. I build desktop and mobile apps, games, and original music.
My work combines tech and creativity, inspired by unique, adventurous worlds and stories that spark a sense of wonder and excitement. I'm passionate about blending engineering with art to bring fun ideas to life.

SOFTWARE

DATA DESKTOP APP

FLORIDA HURRICANE LANDFALL EVENT TRACKER

C# / ASP.NET CoreTypeScript / Electron NetTopologySuitexUnit

Parses NOAA HURDAT2 storm tracks and presents inferred Florida hurricane landfalls in a Windows desktop report.

Engineering highlight: Detects track crossings against Florida's boundary, filters inland entries from neighboring states, and preserves separate landfalls from the same storm. The included dataset produces 104 inferred events across 2,004 storms.

APPS

Muse Penguin app icon

Desktop + iOS · Coming soon

Muse Penguin

Tiny pixel penguins that live on your desktop and your iPhone. It starts with one egg; every penguin that hatches has its own name and personality, and the colony grows into a little world: games they teach you, a shop they stumble onto, snow, naps, and a story they dig up as they go.

Built solo: a hand-written 2D engine on Electron that roams every monitor and stands on your open windows, plus an Expo iPhone app with home-screen widgets and Live Activities.

Windows + iPhone Custom 2D engine Hand-drawn pixel art
Coming soon
Frog Quest+ app icon

iOS Game

Frog Quest+

A solo-developed mobile platformer released on the Apple App Store, built from gameplay and UI through testing, submission, and launch.

iPhone + iPad World Tree climb Endless mode
View on the App Store
Muse Media Tracker app icon

iOS App

Muse Media Tracker

A personal media tracker for organizing what you're watching, playing, reading, and following across custom categories and profiles.

Cross-media library Custom profiles Back up & restore
View on the App Store

GAMES

Countdown Island character standing in front of a giant ticking bomb

3D PLATFORMER

COUNTDOWN ISLAND

GMTK 2026Solo DeveloperOriginal Music

A colorful island adventure built around jumping, diving, bouncing, sliding, and momentum-based traversal before the enormous bomb reaches zero.

Frog Quest title art with a small frog in a starry scene

2D PLATFORMER

FROG QUEST

Original ReleaseSolo Developer

The original itch.io release of the climb-and-retry platforming adventure that I later expanded into the App Store version, Frog Quest+.

Pineapple upside-down cake from Upside-Down Pineapple Race

GAME JAM

UPSIDE-DOWN PINEAPPLE RACE

48-Hour JamFirst GameSolo Developer

My first game, created solo in 48 hours for a game jam with the theme Upside Down.

Dark pixel art title screen for Boombox Swarm

ARCADE GAME

BOOMBOX SWARM

48-Hour JamScaling DifficultyOriginal Music

A fast-paced game jam project whose difficulty scales over time, featuring music composed by yours truly.


DESIGN

Muse Labs

Muse Labs is the home of my studio: the apps, games and music I make, all in one place. I designed and built the whole site, down to each app's own page.

Engineering AI-VR Museum

This website provides an overview of the FAMU-FSU C.O.E. AI-VR Museum project, highlighting interactive exhibits, team roles, design concepts, and supporting documents. I served as the lead VR developer, designer, and webmaster, solely developing the site to effectively communicate our project's vision.

Muse Portfolio

This is the website you're looking at right now, made from scratch to showcase the design and development projects I'm proud of.
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My Itch.io Page

Explore all my games on itch.io. This page features every game project I've officially released, from polished adventures to game jam entries.

Muse Jukebox

The Muse Jukebox is an interactive music player loaded with tracks from my own collection that is dynamically generated each time it's loaded.
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