Nikolas Keuser

01 · School

Mechanical & Aerospace

South Dakota State University

I’m chasing a mechanical engineering degree with an aerospace specialty at South Dakota State, Class of 2028, while racing for the Jackrabbits swim & dive program.

I’ve been obsessed with space for as long as I can remember, and I’ve been taking tech apart and rebuilding it since I was a kid. Engineering is just the formal version of that itch.

02 · Studio

Nik’s Games LLC

I make games people actually want to play.

A solo studio. I design, build, and ship every part myself, in Unreal, Godot, and Blender. Five titles so far: three live on Steam, two more on the way.

Shipped On Steam now

World of Fate Shipped · 2022

Strategy · Simulation

A strategy game built on top of the real world. I pulled live street and building data off the map and turned it into playable terrain. My first hard lesson in making messy real-world data behave like a game.

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Greed of Man Free · 2023

Open-world MMO RPG

A from-scratch open-world MMO: persistent world, combat, mining, and the netcode holding it all together. Where I learned how much harder everything gets the moment it’s multiplayer.

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The Pissing Game Shipped · 2026

Casual · Indie

Pure id: a bizarre quest where even taking a piss is a boss fight. Shipped it for a dollar to prove a joke can still be a finished, polished game.

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In development Wishlist soon

VISE In development

Co-op physics sandbox

My most technical build yet: a blueprint editor where every object you design (beams, hinges, axles) becomes a real physics body in a fully editable voxel world. Co-op, dedicated servers, zero prefabs.

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Hall Pass Coming 2026

Co-op survival horror

1–4 player co-op horror in a pitch-black school where the moss is alive and fire is the only thing it fears. Learning how to make dark, quiet, and dread actually land.

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03 · Swim

Nikolas mid-meet, fist raised, water exploding

Competitive

In the water.

I race the 100 breaststroke for the Jackrabbits. Division I conference champion in the event as a freshman, runner-up this year, and a handful of school records along the way.

Full results on Swimcloud →

04 · Hydro Halo

Co-Founder · Lead Designer

Hydro Halo

Hydro Halo is an aquatic resistance training system for swimmers, the gear I wished existed grinding through dryland in February. I co-founded it and lead the design, turning that frustration into something you can actually train with.

Visit hydrohalo.org →