My name is René "Havoc" Nicolaus. I'm a Senior Software Engineer / Indie Game Developer.
- havPreviewHandler - A shell extension DLL for File Explorer on Windows 11 that provides animated image previews and representative static thumbnails for GIF, WebP, and PNG files (including APNG content in PNG containers)
- Portals - A Doom-inspired custom game engine, currently in development for a future game project
- havIDE - An integrated development environment (IDE) for C++ projects, currently in development
- 03/26/2026 - havPreviewHandler v0.2.0 Released
- 03/25/2026 - First Video of My Road Rash-Style Game Released on YouTube
- 03/22/2026 - havPreviewHandler v0.1.1 Released, havIDE Development Update, and Web Speech API Fun(ctionality)
- 03/18/2026 - havPreviewHandler Released
- 03/01/2026 - havTermKit 0.2 and havTermViper Released
C++ 69.4%
C# 18.4%
C 4.4%
JavaScript 3.2%
Python 2.9%
CSS 1.1%
PowerShell 0.3%
CMake 0.2%
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