Currently I lecture at the SMU Guildhall. I teach my students how to build engine components (such as shader systems, skeletal character animation, scripting compilers), and supervise their Master's projects. I also have my own tech consulting company, dot3 labs, LLC.

Before that, I worked at Crytek on the original CryEngine and the game Far Cry, working on multiplayer, core engine systems, and a new scripting language. Prior, I was a consultant for Amiga Inc working on a new operating system and a new system wide programming language.

Some of my largest projects have been self-employed, or in the case of the Cube Engines, in cooperation with my business partner at dot3 labs. The first Cube engine started as an exercise in simplicity, game design, and in-game level editing, but has evolved into a rather complete open source game & engine project in Cube 2 / Sauerbraten.

My other Games, Engines, Editors & Maps.

Thinking on how we can better organize information has led me to create TreeSheets, a “hierarchical spreadsheet” as an alternative to text editors, spreadsheets, mind mapping programs, outliners etc.

Read about several other Productivity Tools I made.

I did my PhD at Southampton University (UK), and my Master's at the University of Amsterdam (NL), both in programming language research, with Aardappel and Bla being the respective resulting projects / languages.

I created one of the most widely used languages on the Amiga platform, Amiga E, which I sold as a commercial product for a few years, and the False language which started a wave of esoteric languages.

More on my Programming Languages projects.

Random Rants, Notes & Articles (for everything that doesn't fit elsewhere)

Besides programming I dabble in Photography, used to do a lot of level design (part of what motivated me to create better engines!), and used to do even music, comics and painting.

I am very much into natural languages, and actually studied Computational Linguistics and Italian before I switched to programming languages entirely. Besides Italian, English I also speak German and Dutch fluently, and can get around in French or Spanish.

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• Photography (2010/07/4)
• Bulk Fisheye Remapper (2010/07/4)
• Video 2 Panorama (2010/07/4)
• Overview (2010/07/4)
• Consumed By Greed (2010/07/4)
• Ultimate Card Game (2010/07/3)
• Math Card Game (2010/07/3)
• Game Design Ideas (2010/07/3)
• Random Music Generation (2010/07/2)