Independent games digital tools strange nature

I build strange little worlds and useful systems.

I’m Shaylee Smith, an independent developer, artist, and product designer creating browser games, interactive tools, and curious goods inspired by the living world.

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Currently developing VEILBORN, an eldritch congregation-management game.

Shaylee Smith wearing purple glasses inside an iridescent oval

Selected worlds

Final Settlement title artwork with a noir detective and moonlit city

Final Settlement

A noir point-and-click mystery about a dead man who never arrived.

  • Playable
  • Mystery
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Root Record plant-care dashboard and garden check

Root Record

A responsive plant-care app for collections, care, and daily checks.

  • Live app
  • Plant care
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Flutterjar terrarium with tiny bugs and care controls

Flutterjar

A gentle terrarium game about tiny bugs and a growing ecosystem.

  • Playable
  • Pet sim
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Earlier work: The Ashgrove Ritual

Useful systems

Not every project is a fictional world. I also design small systems around real routines, with calm interfaces and clear boundaries between what each tool should do.

Personal workflow

Life-OS

A lean life-management system that connects structured planning, concrete tasks, scheduled commitments, and a practical daily briefing without turning everything into another dashboard.

  • Workflow design
  • Daily briefing

Active experiment

Grocery Brain

A local-first pantry and weekly planning experiment that learns from receipt history, food feedback, and real-life constraints to build practical low-prep meal plans.

  • Local-first
  • Planning system

For other makers

Creator resources

I release practical art and interface resources for games, streams, visual novels, and fast prototypes—built from the same mix of atmosphere, usability, and strange little details as my own projects.

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Watercolor Houseplant Props30 transparent botanical PNGs for cozy games and illustrated worlds PS1 Horror UI for ReactAccessible, dependency-free menus and modals for atmospheric projects Crow Emote Pack12 expressive PNG emotes for Twitch, Discord, and stream communities

Strange nature goods

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Symbiosis

Original strange-nature art and practical goods across digital downloads, clip art, guides, stickers, and apparel for people drawn to the wonderfully odd parts of the living world.

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Natural-history collage with mushrooms, beetle, butterfly, fern, and violet flowers

Cozy does not have to mean plain.

I'm an independent developer, product designer, and digital artist. I take small browser worlds and practical personal tools from idea through interaction design, systems, interface, and development—then carry the same strange-nature instincts into art and reusable resources for other makers.

Browser games Tools + systems Strange-nature art Creator resources