About the studio
“I like games that make curiosity feel physical.”
I’m Adam Quane, the person behind No Evil Star Studios. I make riddles, scavenger hunts, story worlds, and experiments that blur the line between a game, a field notebook, and a very elaborate rabbit hole.
No Evil Star began as a music name and slowly became the right name for a game studio: a little mysterious, a little handmade, and broad enough to hold a haunted riddle house, an outdoor scavenger hunt, a treasure-research vault, and an RPG set beneath a very old sky.
The common thread is curiosity. I like clues that change how you look at a room, a street, a map, or a story. I also like the machinery behind games: rules, collections, rivalries, economies, and the moment a pile of ideas finally becomes something another person can play.
“A sturdy model gives a strange idea somewhere solid to stand.”
Before the studio became the focus, I spent years working close to operational data: SQL, ETL, partner integrations, reporting, metadata systems, scheduling, file movement, APIs, and data-lake work. That experience still shapes how I make games, even when players never see it.
It taught me to make rules explicit, track state carefully, test the important paths, and build tools for the repetitive work around the creative work. I use AI-assisted development in the same spirit: move quickly through possibilities, then make the result understandable and reliable.
Clear models, reliable state, useful automation, careful testing, and respect for the boring parts that keep a game alive.
Data engineering and integration leadership across healthcare and benefits systems. The detailed chronology lives on LinkedIn; this site keeps the focus on the studio.
Tools I reach for
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
Conservatory training and composition work before the software chapter.
