I'm Tom Evangelou! I'm a driven programmer who loves learning and tinkering with Rendering and Engine dev. At the moment
I'm working on a custom OpenGL game engine, and am tinkering with Vulkan on the side.
Here I've got a selection of my finest messes, along with blog posts and devlogs talking about
my experience working on them.
I began my education in Philosophy, wanting to go on to become a teacher, but felt the entirely academic environment of academia was not
what brought me joy, and so I moved to AIE to study Game Design. I immediately found a particular passion for programming in my design course,
and made it the focus of much of my work. This eventually led to my decision to abandon my initial plans of being a Game Designer, and dive into
programming headfirst, a decision I have not regretted once.
So stick around and have a look! If you'd like!
Still under construction!
Following my exploration of OpenGL last year, I wanted to learn more about everything rendering.
Vulkan seemed the best way to do it. Check out my devlogs!
- Graphics (3D, 2D)
- Engine Development
Since moving to Programming from Game Design, I had a goal of developing
and rolling my own tech stack for a game project. This was affectionately known to me and
my friends as 'Bustom Bengine,' and has developed into one of the largest projects I have
worked on, and one of my proudest pieces of work.
- Graphics (3D, 2D)
- Engine Development
- Tooling
An extension of my first assessment as a 2nd year student at AIE. This is a custom physics simulation that features a small, game-like
testing environment inspired by Peggle! Built from "Line Renderer," a library provided by my trainer.
- Collision Algorithms (SAT)
- Engine Design
- Physics Implementation
Completed for my Complex Game Studies unit at AIE, I dove into creating (programmatically) and implementing Vertex Animation Textures for use in
a custom project! This was inspired by discussions of optimisations for Real-Time Strategy games with mass amounts of animated units.
- Tool Design
- Animation
- Alternative Graphics Techniques
A project that I am contributing to as programmer, as well as a designer in some capacity.
- Unreal Engine 5
- Gameplay Programming (Blueprints and C++)
- Dialogue and Narrative Systems
- Advanced AI
An entry for the 1-Bit Game Jam I was the sole programmer for! A lot of fun building some dialogue systems and overarching narrative logic stuff!
Watch this space to see my next projects!
If you wanna chat about what I'm doing, or just generally ask me whatever
feel free to reach out!.