I'm AJ Patrick. I used to teach game dev. I studied brains. I write fantasy novels. I recorded music. I deleted all my social media. This is the page that remembers everything instead.
Writing Dreggor — Book One of the Tri-Hominin. Eleven chapters in prose, twenty-five more outlined. Version 3.14. A 210-entry worldbuilding wiki keeping it all honest. That's the main thing. The rest is context.
Last updated: March 2026
Currently writing Dreggor — Book One of the Tri-Hominin. A fantasy novel about a museum apprentice, a ship's artist, rot-thread magic, and a thousand-year lie held together by empire and salt. Backed by a 210-entry worldbuilding wiki that I maintain in TiddlyDesktop.
Fantasy. Three species. One pact. A colony on the edge of empire, a boy who inherits something dangerous, and a crew aboard a black-hulled cutter running from the consequences. Part coming-of-age, part revolution, part love story told through salt spray and rot-thread and old bones.
A worldbuilding bible maintained in TiddlyDesktop. Characters, locations, factions, species, timeline, languages, religion, flora, fauna — the whole thing.
I released an EP called Prince Charming in 2019. COVID killed its momentum, but the songs still exist and people still find them.
Five tracks released into the world at exactly the wrong time.
I have a Masters in Educational Neuroscience — research at the intersection of how brains learn and how schools actually work. Some of it explicitly calls out what social media does to cognition, which is part of why I deleted mine.
A channel dedicated to educational neuroscience — the science behind learning, attention, and cognition in educational settings.
Research exploring the neuroscience of learning, attention, and the impact of digital environments on cognition.
I ran a YouTube channel called Outback Nerd where I published 100+ Godot game development tutorials for my high school students. The channel is no longer active, but the tutorials are all still up. I also published game assets and tutorial projects on itch.io.
100+ tutorials covering Godot Engine from first scripts to full game projects. Wolfenstein 3D recreations, space scrollers, top-down RPGs, and everything in between. No longer active, but everything is still there.
Game assets and tutorial projects published alongside the YouTube series. Wolfenstein 3D in Godot, Space Scroller, and The Legend of Bazza.
The stuff that doesn't fit neatly anywhere. Add things here as you remember them.