I connect product direction, hands-on Unreal Engine R&D and specialist technical delivery to turn complex interactive ideas into working systems, reusable products and credible commercial propositions.
Unreal Engine · Interactive systems · Applied R&D
Years of involvement: –Product R&D & real-time 3D
Over six years I have led the product and hands-on Unreal Engine R&D, combining systems design, world-building, prototyping and specialist collaboration around an independently developed game vision.
Years of involvement: –Applied AI & knowledge systems
I designed and built LifeOS, a local-first personal intelligence system that connects email, documents, messages, tasks and knowledge while retaining source evidence and requiring confirmation before records are changed.
Years of involvement: –Commercial product launch
I helped turn a free community project into a commercial Unreal Engine product, shaping the positioning, brand, launch and route to market for its first paid release.
Years of involvement: –Multiplayer framework & studio proposition
I developed a technical partnership into a broader commercial proposition: a reusable multiplayer framework, studio identity and offer tested with game studios, alongside the operational structure needed for reliable distributed collaboration.
Years of involvement: –Multiplayer conversion & technical operations
I helped a distributed team move a difficult multiplayer conversion forward, improving diagnosis, documentation, version control, testing and cross-discipline coordination around a tightly coupled character-interaction system.
Years of involvement: –Interactive audio & real-time systems
I co-designed AMS as an adaptive music system for Unreal Engine, developing its musical architecture, compositions and interaction rules while my collaborator built the Blueprint implementation that responded to gameplay states.
Years of involvement: –World-building & prototyping
I developed and explored procedural tools for rapidly generating landscapes, cities and playable environments, reducing the cost of early iteration while making world-building and design decisions more tangible.
Years of involvement: –Applied AI & Unreal Engine workflows
I contributed to the early product direction of AURA, an alpha connecting AI with Unreal Engine tools and workflows, exploring how context-aware assistance could better support technical work in real-time production.
Technical toolkit
Best-fit engagements
Roles and projects that need product direction, technical depth and specialist delivery to work as one.
For teams that need someone to connect product intent, technical decisions and delivery across complex real-time systems.
For projects turning difficult technical work into dependable systems that can be reused, documented and developed further.
For multidisciplinary teams that need clear scopes, practical workflows, strong hand-offs and informed coordination across specialists.
For uncertain or ambitious ideas that need rapid validation, hands-on investigation and a credible path from experiment to product.
I continue to work hands-on across Unreal Engine, interactive systems and applied R&D, including the ongoing development of Fate of the Few and early product work around AURA.
The work spans Blueprint-driven systems, AI behaviour, navigation, procedural tools, multiplayer and interaction frameworks, technical prototyping, version-control workflows and AI-assisted development.
I am looking to bring that combination of product judgement, technical understanding and specialist-team leadership into ambitious Unreal Engine and interactive-technology work.
Marc Thornton
Development approach
Unreal Engine & technical product opportunities
I am open to permanent, contract and consulting work across Unreal Engine, technical product leadership, interactive systems and applied R&D.
Based in France, working remotely with international travel across the UK, Europe and North America.
