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SIMAX / Simon Maxam

Creative technology — experimental systems

51.0447° N 114.0719° W
Calgary, Alberta

Simon Maxam builds immersive websites, interactive 3D worlds and games — and plays guitar. Seven disciplines, one field.

  • Creating since2010
  • Guitar≈7 yrs
  • Performed300+ hrs
  • Builds06
  • Credentials22
  • Awards02

Move to disturb the field · click to place a pole · hold to charge a shockwave · drag a pole to move it

02 — System

About Simon Maxam

7 disciplines · 10 links

The best projects come from bringing different disciplines together, not staying in one lane.

— Simon Maxam · How I think

Profile

Simon Maxam is a web developer and 3D artist in Calgary, Alberta, building immersive websites, interactive 3D worlds and games with Three.js, Blender and Unreal Engine 5.

A multidisciplinary creator combining technology, architecture, game development, web design, music and digital experiences — brought together into one creative identity: SIMAX.

Brilliant at
Producing a lot of work quickly, and getting a rough first version of almost anything in front of you.
Hopeless at
Knowing which of those versions is actually any good, and having the nerve to throw the rest away.

System map — drag a node; it snaps to the grid. Select one to reorganise the map around it.

03 — Builds

Build log · every build is an experiment

6 builds · 5 live

  1. Build
    log

    Games, websites, architecture and WebGL. Scroll to move through the archive; open one to reorganise the page around it.

  2. Build 001Educational gameIn development

    SOLARIS

    A space-exploration game — planets, environments and interactive systems.

    001 · 3 STACK · 3 DISC
    Stack
    Unreal Engine 5 · Blender · Photoshop
    Disciplines
    WEBAPPS3DCODEARCHGAMEMUSIC
  3. Build 002WebsiteLive

    YŪGEN

    Omakase restaurant, San Francisco.

    002 · 4 STACK · 3 DISC
    Stack
    Next.js · React Three Fiber · GSAP · Lenis
    Disciplines
    WEBAPPS3DCODEARCHGAMEMUSIC
    Live site
  4. Build 003Interactive portfolioLive

    SIMAX

    The interactive portfolio — a 3D guitar, music, and the studio's own site.

    003 · 2 STACK · 4 DISC
    Stack
    Next.js · React Three Fiber
    Disciplines
    WEBAPPS3DCODEARCHGAMEMUSIC
    Live site
  5. Build 004Personal indexLive

    Field Notes

    A drafting-sheet personal index — one page tying the other builds together.

    004 · 3 STACK · 2 DISC
    Stack
    HTML · CSS · JavaScript
    Disciplines
    WEBAPPS3DCODEARCHGAMEMUSIC
    Live site
  6. Build 005Interactive 3D experienceLive

    Ovenlight

    Pull a slice from the pie, build your own, grab a drink — an interactive 3D pizza shop.

    005 · 3 STACK · 3 DISC
    Stack
    Next.js · React Three Fiber · GSAP
    Disciplines
    WEBAPPS3DCODEARCHGAMEMUSIC
    Live site
  7. Build 006Interactive experienceLive

    MuseumVerse

    An interactive museum walkthrough — step inside, right in the browser.

    006 · 3 STACK · 3 DISC
    Stack
    Three.js · GSAP · JavaScript
    Disciplines
    WEBAPPS3DCODEARCHGAMEMUSIC
    Live site

  8. End of log

    6 builds.

    The artifacts from them are on the table below — pick one up.

04 — Archive

Credentials · Google · AWS · Adobe · Microsoft · PMI

22 credentials · 73 h logged

Credential
archive

22 completed courses and certificates, filed between Jul 30 and Sep 12, 2026 — across 3D, code, data and business.

3D & Design
07
Development
04
Data & AI
08
Business
03

Showing 22 / 22

Google

01 on file

AWS

01 on file

Adobe

03 on file

Microsoft

01 on file

PMI

02 on file

IIBA

01 on file

LinkedIn Learning

13 on file

05 — Field table

Artifacts from the work · drag, throw, inspect

6 artifacts · 1 grid

The
table

The working surface. Pick things up, throw them, let them settle — every object clicks onto the grid. Click one to inspect it.

06 — Sound

Guitar · double bass · worship

6 strings · standard tuning

Sound

“Guitar is my main instrument — I play fingerstyle and lead worship as a volunteer musician at church, and it's the thread running through everything else I build.”

Guitar
≈ 7 years — rhythm, acoustic, some classical
Performed
300+ hours as a volunteer guitarist
Also
Double bass · FL Studio
Performances on Instagram
Simon Maxam playing electric guitar on stage, black and white
Fig. 05.1 Performing — Ironwood Stage, Calgary
Simon Maxam playing double bass in a church performance, in a tuxedo
Fig. 05.2 Double bass — church recital

Fretboard — sweep across the strings to strum · tap a string to fret it · 12 frets, standard tuning

Last note: —

07 — Transfer

How the disciplines turn into each other

1 set of points · 7 shapes

String

A guitar string — one line under tension.

  1. 01StringMusic
  2. 02WaveMusic
  3. 03SignalCode
  4. 04Particles3D
  5. 05Geometry3D
  6. 06StructureArchitecture
  7. 07SurfaceWeb

Music → code → 3D → architecture → web. One field. The lime points are the same points all the way through.

08 — Record

Recognition · timeline

2 awards · since 2010

Recognition

Record / TÜBİTAK

3rd

Place — nationwide, Turkey

Year
2024
Organization
TÜBİTAK — Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye
Result
3rd Place — Nationwide (Turkey)1st Place — Province
Level
National · provincial

Record / Waterloo Newtonian Medal

Medal

Newtonian — Waterloo CEMC

Year
Not published
Organization
University of Waterloo — Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC)
Result
Medal

Timeline — 2010 → 2026 · hover to stretch the years

≈ 7 yrs guitar
2010Creating since

Where the index starts.

≈ 7 yrsGuitar

About seven years of guitar — rhythm, acoustic, some classical.

2024TÜBİTAK

3rd place nationwide in Turkey, 1st in the province.

202622 credentials

Jul 30 → Sep 12 · Google, AWS, LinkedIn Learning with Adobe, Microsoft, PMI and IIBA.

2026SIMAX

This index.

Undated — dates not published

  • SOLARISAbout two years in Unreal Engine 5.
  • Frank Architecture & InteriorsProfessional Revit work.
  • Waterloo Newtonian MedalUniversity of Waterloo (CEMC).
  • 300+ hoursVolunteer worship guitarist at church.

09 — Game

A small game about magnets and music

45 s round

Catch
the notes

You're the magnet. Notes fall from above — pull them in and each one plays. Sweep across to climb the scale.

  • CatchChain catches within 1.4 s to build a combo (up to ×5).
  • GoldWorth five, and widens your field for four seconds.
  • HoldPress and hold for a stronger pull.
  • KeysFocus the board, then arrows to move and space to hold.
Score000
Combo×1 —
Time—
Best000

Warm-up — the field is live, try it before you start

Your melody

Catch a note to start one.

10 — Contact

Projects · collaborations · talking shop

Calgary, Alberta

Have a project, a collaboration idea, or just want to talk shop about games, architecture, music or code?

Write an email →

Takes on

Anything at the intersection of design and technology — interactive websites, game development in Unreal Engine, architectural visualization, and music/creative collaborations. If it combines a few disciplines, I'm probably interested.

Elsewhere

Based in

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

51.0447° N 114.0719° W