Elias Farhan

A port is not simply "the same game in another engine" or "just an emulator". It is a long series of decisions about what to do with the original content (art, code and audio) to create a new version with its own set of constraints. In this blog post, I w

According to VGInsights, about 13% of games released on Steam in 2024 used a custom engine, down from 71% in 20121. So looking at this trend, why should anybody try to make their own game engine? Video Game Insights, The Big Game Engines Report of 2025. h

Two weeks ago, I announced that my talk was accepted for CppCon 2026, happening in about a month in Denver (on Tuesday, September 15th, to be more exact). The talk is about building a small but non-trivial C++ game engine and all the nice things modern C+

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This week, I went to Breda to attend the Graphics Programming Conference, thanks to SAE Institute. My goal was to delve into more advanced Computer Graphics before starting the module the week after. Breda is a lovely city, south of the Netherlands, that

This month was eventful for Beach Slap. First stop was Herofest in Bern. We bought a new TV that we needed to setup on the first day. After this littel rush, we could let the game play. I added a special expo mode in the game that automatically reset the

This week, my colleague from SAE Geneva and I went to Cologne for the SAE Convention, a gathering of the different SAE in the world. Like last year for Frankfurt, I took the train early. I arrived in Cologne in the early afternoon to have a meeting with t

Right after Busan Indie Connect, I spent some times visiting South Korea, starting from Busan: Then I went to Gyeongju, the capital of the Silla kingdom back in the day: Next stop was Daegu: Heading back to Seoul to go to the Seoul Indies meetup, where I

Last time that I went to Korea was in 2018 for BIC Fest (post here). So I was happy that I could back this year and then enjoy some holidays afterwards. One of the big achievement for this time is that we localized the title from Beach Slap to 해변의 귓방망이 wh