The iPad is an amazing learning device. You can read shader books on it. Draw shader ideas on it. And ever since iOS playgrounds got a major boost you can even develop Metal shaders on it using Playgrounds. It was the only device I had with me on my easter vacation in the woods. Most of the time was spent like this: But you need to catch your breath every once in a while and what could possibly be better than coding shaders on the iPad, in the hammock? Read more

I’ve been coding professionally for over 20 years and I still learn new things every single day. One of the most fun and rewarding ways I use to get better is to recreate things in games I love. And I’m in love with so many games. It never ends. An endless, lovely, gamedev tutorial! One of the games I love is Beat Saber. I wanted to recreate it as a VR learning experience on my HTC Vive. Read more

I <3 the Metal shader debugger in XCode. It’s one of those things that feels like they’ve been sent from the future. I’ve been doing shaders in OpenGL for years and years. The last five years I’ve been helping a nice Swedish game company to code casual games with a lot of Candy. And Crushes. More than once I’ve realized that the demos and shaders I did for fun in my teens are the very things that’s putting food on the table for my kids over 100 years later. Read more