Products & play
- Riddles, wordplay, geofenced clues, story worlds, treasure research, and real walks with a finish line.
- The design rule I hold myself to: an answer should feel fair in hindsight.
About Me
About the studio
I'm Adam Quane. No Evil Star Studios is a one-person creative laboratory in Colorado. I'm a data engineer by trade and a musician by training; the studio is where I combine those disciplines in games, private business software, research tools, and experiments.
The Studio
No Evil Star started as a music name and stuck around long enough to become the studio name. It fits — a little odd, hard to place, and mine. Today it covers mobile games, Budgy's private budget and wealth tools, a treasure-research site, an RPG, and smaller experiments.
The studio is deliberately small. I design, write, integrate, and build the work myself. Halloway exists because I love locked-door riddles; City Seekers because I wanted a reason to walk new cities; Budgy because the studio needed to understand its own costs. I stay open to collaborators when an idea benefits from another perspective.
Private systems
- Budgy combines business budgeting, cost allocation, receipts, reporting, and a separate personal wealth view.
- Private software still earns production habits: authentication, migrations, encryption, review steps, and monitored deploys.
Open questions
- Fantasy sports, cryptocurrency, market psychology, integrations, scoreboards, and rule sets that produce unexpected stories.
- Not every experiment becomes a public product. Some answer a question; some become a useful tool; some invite collaboration.
Data Engineering Background
My professional background is in operational data: SQL, ETL, partner integrations, eligibility and accumulator files, reporting, metadata systems, scheduling, APIs, and data-lake work. The same discipline now sits underneath the studio's games and private tools.
That work taught me to make contracts explicit, trace data through a system, test the important paths, and automate repetitive work. The studio applies those habits to app-store releases, payments, financial connections, cloud deployments, monitoring, and AI-assisted development.
What carries over
Clear models, reliable state, useful automation, careful testing, and respect for the unglamorous parts that keep software alive.
The résumé version
Data engineering and integration leadership across healthcare and benefits systems, alongside hands-on product work. The detailed chronology lives on LinkedIn.
Tools I reach for
Languages
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- HTML
- CSS
Backend & Data
- FastAPI
- Flask
- Jinja2
- SQLAlchemy
- Alembic
- PostgreSQL
Apps & UI
- HTMX
- Chart.js
- Capacitor
- Godot
- GDScript
- Pygame
- Pygbag
- React
Services & Integrations
- StoreKit
- Google Play Billing
- Stripe
- Plaid
- Coinbase
- AWS
- Cloudflare
- Sentry
- Anthropic
Quality & Delivery
- pytest
- Ruff
- mypy
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- Railway
- uv
Music
My background in jazz guitar still shapes how I think: patterns, structure, improvisation, listening, repetition, and knowing when to follow the rules versus when to explore. Software scratches a similar itch — creative, technical, structured, and open-ended all at once.
Before this site became a project map, music was the original lab: solo recordings, band records, small collaborations, and experiments where structure and instinct had to share the same room.
Formal music training
Music credentials
Conservatory training and composition work before the software chapter.
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Visit BandcampNo Evil Star Solo recording project -
Visit BandcampThe Hush Now Boston indie-pop quintet- Overview Boston indie-pop band with a catalog spanning The Hush Now, Constellations, Memos, and Sparkle Drive. (Bandcamp)
- Review PopMatters heard Memos pushing past local-band scale: polished, arena-ready, packed with massive hooks, and still versatile enough to make the next chapter feel open. (PopMatters)
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Visit BandcampAdamadA Portland / Boston collaboration- Overview Collaboration with Adam Trachsel (Mimicking Birds); Spilling Upwards credits Adam Quane on guitar, synth, vocals, and FX. (Bandcamp)
- Review Clicky Clicky heard Spilling Upwards as grungy psychedelia with clear pop moments running through the noise. (Clicky Clicky)