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Joel Croteau

Programmer / Data and Simulation Systems.

Technical Focus

Systems thinking, playable form.

Joel Croteau works across software engineering, data engineering, data science, and systems science, with public projects spanning simulation work, programming-contest tooling, machine-learning testbeds, and game systems.

At ForgeWalker Studios, Joel brings implementation depth, modeling experience, and a practical engineering lens to technical systems and gameplay development.

  • C#
  • Godot
  • Unity
  • Python
  • Simulation
  • Systems science
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Featured Work

Systems, simulations, and tools

C++

Systems Science

ethnocentrism-cpp

A C++ implementation of the Axelrod and Hammond ethnocentrism model, built to visualize generated worlds through a Godot GDExtension.

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C#

Game Prototype

Stranded

A C# strategy-game prototype framed around the question of what Kerbal Space Program might feel like as a strategy game.

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ML

Unity Testbed

NewUniverseProject

A Unity ML-Agents testbed exploring trained movement behavior, inference mode, and learning configuration workflows.

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ICFP

Contest Tooling

ICFP2024

A collaborative programming-contest project with interpreter, encoder, decoder, solver, and debugging tooling work.

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