Improving world loading times for my custom game engine today. fastgltf is proving to be a serious ally. #gamedev #customgameengine #indiedev #detisengine

Investigating potential upgrades for my custom game engine's post-processing chain. I’ve started by replacing the old threshold-based Bloom with a physically based downsample/upsample approach. Source: lnkd.in/d6FGE9uW #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #customgameengine #detisengine

How it Started vs. How it’s Going 2025 I built a custom C++/OpenGL 3D game engine and editor from scratch in less than a year, and just ~2h average a day. Now, let's see how far I can push it with a small proof-of-concept game next. #gamedev #indiedev #engine

I realized I hadn't really tested the engine's interior lighting capabilities yet, so I threw some boxes together for a quick test. No shadows from point lights yet, and no GI of any sort, but still pretty decent results. #gamedev #customgameengine

I haven't been posting much, but after about 10 months, the goal is nearly achieved. I now have a proper game engine and toolset! I'm shifting my focus to the fun part. Making that small proof of concept game I had in mind. Time to put the tech to the test! #gamedev

Updated my Quake-style lights addon for Godot to v2.1.1. Check the changelog below for details. I hope it lights up your projects!

Pace slowed down lately with other stuff taking over, but I managed to find time this week to create this very basic material editor for the engine. #gamedev #indiedev

Simple shadow mapping in action. Quite a bit of a visual improvement since last week. #gamedev #indiedev

Experimenting with skies, reflections, and ambient lighting. Obviously wip, not properly implemented with pbr yet. Shadows are up next. #gamedev #indiedev

A very early version of the renderer, but making some progress. #gamedev #indiedev

Added static sky support. I might look into dynamic blending and weather effects down the road. #gamedev #indiedev

The execution has always been easy. It’s the game design based on the available resources that takes the most effort.

Materials now support emission and transmission. #gamedev #indiedev

How it started vs. how it's going #2. #gamedev #indiedev

Some good progress this week. PBR deferred rendering up and running. Lighting seemed tricky, but normal mapping took things to a whole new level of madness! #gamedev #indiedev

Renderer refactoring in progress. Getting somewhere. #gamedev

After over 6.5 years and 3 amazing projects, last Friday was my last at Frictional Games. Working with such brilliant minds blew my expectations away. Learned tons, made awesome friends, and I’m crazy proud of this epic chapter. Sad to say goodbye, but also hyped for the future!

One last addition before jumping into lighting and graphics. Added a simple GUI to manage entity components. A bit rough around the edges, but good enough for now.

Added file access GUI. Handy for quickly managing assets and testing environments as I get into rendering. #gamedev

Today's progress: I’ve added the ability to select and manipulate multiple entities simultaneously. #gamedev

Adding, duplicating, and deleting entities is possible in my custom game engine editor now. It's slowly coming together. I still need to implement basic component management before diving into graphics. #gamedev

Late-night progress. Starting to look like an actual game engine editor.

A humble start for the editor GUI, paired with a very interesting bug 🚀

How it started vs. how it's going. Building a custom 3D game engine from scratch. Started coding this in between diaper changes this Christmas 🎄👶. Let's see if I can find the spare time to pull this together. #gamedev"

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm a game designer and programmer. I've had the privilege of working on some exciting projects including: Amnesia: The Bunker Amnesia: Rebirth Lethe: Episode One I'll be using this account to share personal gamedev projects, and thoughts on games and the industry. Let's connect!