Making a Wii game in 2024
Published April 2024
Let's explore the unique challenges of porting a DirectX model viewer to an entirely different graphics architecture.
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Hi, I'm MatÃas.
I'm a cross-platform engine programmer passionate about Linux and C++
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You won't find my face online; but my cat Athos says hi for me :)
As a personal challenge I literally rewrote my university's Windows stack to also support Linux. What's next?
As a personal challenge I literally rewrote my university's Windows stack to also support Linux. What's next?
As a personal challenge I literally rewrote my university's Windows stack to also support Linux. What's next?
Featured projects
A custom-engine remake of the battle system from the original game.
Solo project, with a custom animation system driving sprites and multiple graphics backends.
Playable online!Minecraft in a QR code
A C demake that fits inside 3000 bytes via some insane tricks.
Solo project, raymarched voxel renderer on the GPU with no stdlib and custom build steps to save every single byte.
Has a blog post!Puzzle game made with one of my existing custom engines in 48h for a game jam.
I worked with a game designer and artist; all the code is by me.
Playable online!Paper on infinite world generation
Research paper about fast parallelizable infinite world generation.
Reference implementation in Godot with online demo.
Reverse Abduction Simulator
Game made in 48h in one of my custom engines designed around deferred tasks.
All code is by me, while art and design are by my teammate.
Playable online!Volumetrics Raytracer
Fast implementation of volumetrics raymarching, mixed with a CPU raytracer.
Raytracer supports PBR shading, reflections, and shadows.
Has online demo!Sud💜ku
Polished Sudoku app for Android.
Published on F-Droid!Biit Saber (Wii)
Beat Saber demake on the Wii.
Solo project, an experiment on unusual input methods.
Parses maps from the original game!Wreckage Runner
3D game made in a custom engine built on-the-fly in <1 week.
Worked with a programmer and four artists, using a novel technology (WebGPU) and dynamically molding the engine around the team's needs.
My favorite blog posts
DirectX? On my Linux??
Published December 2023
Setting up a Linux-native toolchain to develop a DirectX graphics app via DXVK-Native's Vulkan translation.
Adventures cross-compiling a Windows game engine
Published September 2023
In my journey to do all of my degree on Linux, I set up a build system to allow Win32 development with full IDE support.
Can you fit Minecraft in a QR code?
Published September 2023
Using some insane C, compiler, linker, executable, and binary patching trickery, I fit a playable raymarched version of Minecraft entirely into a QR code.
More about me
Some of the environments I've worked in include:
- Writing custom C and C++ game engines from scratch;
- Graphics programming with OpenGL, Vulkan, and WebGPU;
- Build systems (CMake) and CI/CD (push actions, webhooks);
- Tool development for both CLI and GUI (Qt C++. Avalonia C#, Java Swing);
- Linux server setup and administration (like this one!);
- Lua/C++ integration;
- App development in Flutter;
- Web dev with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly;
- Embedded operating systems in C;
My life has involved a lot of travelling: I've lived in Spain, the USA, France, and Belgium. I am now in my third year of game development studies at DAE (Howest), though I'm spending this semester on an exchange at Abertay University in Scotland. I am 19 years old.
I have completed the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which is a rigorous high school diploma focused on worldwide collaboration. I chose to specialize in Mathematics (Higher Level) as well as Physics (Higher Level) as they connect with my interest of game programming in both physics and graphics.
Working with other people is a large part of what makes development interesting for me. Almost all of my projects involved working with others across the world.
I believe strongly in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). I use FOSS pretty much exclusively, and no devices I use run proprietary code within possibility. I contribute to FOSS projects that I find useful, such as when I added trackpad gestures to my Wayland compositor of choice Hyprland.