mediagreenhouse

nurturing beauty in the age of machines

portfolio of Ryan Green

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Ryan Green

Technical Creative Director,Senior Full-Stack Developer,Creative Coder,AI Artist

I tend and nurture art through crafting tools with technology. I am part gardener, part tool maker, on a quest to discover beauty through pruning what grows as a result.

This portfolio site is an exploration of my work from video games, to fine art, to tool making.

I care about meaningful narratives, accessible design, and novel creative tools.

Selected work

The Operative

2025–2026

Senior Full Stack Programmer

A spy game played through real-time voice calls, text messages, and video calls with AI-driven characters - on the player’s own phone.

Phone / Web / VR

  • Next.js
  • DynamoDB
  • Amplify
  • Unity / C#
  • OpenAI GPT Realtime
  • Go
  • WebRTC
  • Agentic Coding
  • Codex
  • Claude Code
  • Copilot
  • VS Code

AREA MAN LIVES

2022

Director · Designer · Programmer · Technical Artist

A voice-driven VR narrative: you speak aloud, and the characters answer.

Best of Quest 2022 · Cannes XR Official Selection · Venice Immersive, Best of Immersive.

VR / Quest

  • Unity / C#
  • Blender
  • Cloud Speech-to-Text
  • Behavior trees
  • Shaders

That Dragon, Cancer

2016

Director · Programmer · Technical Artist · Writer

A game of hope in the face of death.

BAFTA Game Innovation Award 2017 · The Game Award for Impact 2016.

Desktop / Mobile / VR

  • Unity / C#
  • Blender
  • Shaders
  • EC2 light-baking pipeline
GatherGameStudio

Gather Game Studio

2026

UI/UX & Scripting Language Designer · Full Stack

A browser-based 2D game engine for making multiplayer games with friends.

Web-based game engine

Media Greenhouse Studio

2026

UI/UX Designer · Full Stack

AI-native video production pipeline for the web.

Work in progress

MonaBrains No-Code Editor

2024

Co-System Designer · UI/UX Designer · Programmer

A no-code Unity editor tool for making games and immersive interactive spaces for the Mona metaverse platform.

Unity editor tool

Painted Waters

2022

Director · Designer · Programmer · Technical Artist

An accessibility-first game designed with and for children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

Desktop

Podcast Companion App

2026

Designer · Full Stack

A listening companion for a true-crime podcast: play the episodes, clip what you notice, and work the case with an AI co-sleuth.

Web / Mobile

DaVitaNeway

Healthcare UI/UX, pre-2011, 2021 - Lab ordering for nephrology patients at Neway; before that, the Falcon design strategy at DaVita - physician noting, scheduling, decision-support reporting, coding.

Johns Hopkins University

Former faculty member at the Immersive Storytelling & Emerging Technologies Lab, Johns Hopkins University.

Graduate Instructor, cinematic gaming - Johns Hopkins University (2021).

Recognition

Awards

  • BAFTA Game Awards, 2017Nomination - Debut Game
  • Games for Change, 2017Winner - Most Innovative
  • Peabody / Facebook Awards, 2017Winner - Future of Media
  • IGF, 2016Finalist - Excellence in Narrative
  • IGF, 2016Finalist - Excellence in Audio
  • IGF, 2016Honourable Mention - Grand Prize
  • DICE, 2017Finalist - Outstanding Achievement in Story
  • DICE, 2017Finalist - S.P.R.I.T.E. Award
  • IDFA, 2017Finalist - DocLab
  • Emotional Game AwardsWinner - Best Emotional Indie Game
  • Meta, 2022Featured - Best of Quest 2022
  • Cannes, 2022Official Selection - Cannes XR
  • Tribeca, 2015Interactive Playground - Tribeca Film Festival
  • FoST, 2017Official Selection - Future of Storytelling
  • SheffieldOfficial Selection - Sheffield Doc/Fest

Subject of Documentaries

Press

United States

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

Talks & appearances

Generative art

The Colors That Heal

Art Blocks

flora, fauna, false gods, & floods

Art Blocks Presents

Beauty in the Hurting

Art Blocks Presents

Elsewhere

Contact

ryangreen8@gmail.com

Open to collaboration, full-time remote, contract work, and profound conversations about the search for beauty and meaning.