About Me

Simon Canas

I am an engine and graphics programmer.
I have some Gameplay Programming experience.

Timeline

SAE Institute

The school I'm studying in.

Sep. 2021
Last year of my studies, obtaining my Bachelor of Science [Current]

May. 2021
Release of Aer Racers

Jul. 2020
Release of the Minecraft-Like prototype

Dec. 2018
My first Unity game

Sep. 2018
Start of my studies

My Skills

My Projects

Clicking on the titles will lead you to the project / download page for each
Additonal links with more info are available under each project

NekoEngine

A 3D game engine made by Elias Fahran (my teacher), on which I worked
I'm sorry, there are no cats

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Link to the Github repo

My teacher's website

A blogpost on my implementation of vectors in the engine

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My custom Vulkan-based Graphics Engine

My first attempt at creating a Vulkan-based graphics engine
Should've been used in Aer Racers, but ended up being too hard to maintain

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Link to my personal fork of the NekoEngine, which contains my work on Vulkan.

First blogpost, describing the first steps in creating the engine

Second blogpost, describing how I adapted my implementation for the NekoEngine

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Aer Racers

A racing game that I co-developed with my classmates during my final year of study using the NekoEngine

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Link to the Release download

Postmortem

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Minecraft-Like

An experimental attempt to recreate a chunk rendering system similar to Minecraft's made during my second year with my classmates using the NekoEngine

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Link to the Release download

A blogpost on my work

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Cosmyx

A very simple arcade-like shoot 'em up
My very first game made in Unity

Link to the itch.io page

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