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), plus still-frame preview / thumbnail support for MP4 files
- 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
- 04/08/2026 - havPixEdit and Minor Website Update
- 04/06/2026 - havPreviewHandler v0.3.0 Released
- 04/04/2026 - Asphalt Strike and havSeriLite v0.2 Released
- 03/26/2026 - havPreviewHandler v0.2.0 Released
- 03/25/2026 - First Video of My Road Rash-Style Game Released on YouTube
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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See icons/ATTRIBUTIONS.md for full attribution and license details.







