Jaylon Sifuentes
Programmer
Vulkan Engine
September 2025 / Solo Dev / 2 months
Notable Features
- Full scene loading utilizing core glTF 2.0 PBR material specification
- Cook-Torrance BRDF
- Image based lighting employing Epic Games' split sum approx. for indirect specular
- Vulkan 1.3 Dynamic Rendering
- Parallax Occlusion Mapping
Vulkan Ray Tracing
November 2025 / Solo Dev
Notable Features
- Photon Mapping Global Illumination
- Multi-bounce utilizing BSDF and Russian roulette termination
- Octree accelerated photon gathering
- Real-time visualization with adjustable photon count and gather radius
Tiled Decals
February 2026 / Solo Dev
Notable Features
- Compute shader clustered rendering
- Over 3X performance compared to brute force
- Scene placeable decals
- Adjustable parameters for size, color, texture
Voxel Octree
March 2025 / Solo Dev
Notable Features
- GPU Indirect Instancing
- Real-time destruction up to 2M+ voxels per chunk
- Physics simulated variation
- Voxelized 3D models
Miskatonic
October 2024 / Team of 12 : Lead Programmer / Current
Miskatonic is a narrative-driven map management game where you play as an evil being from the cosmos. I served as lead programmer and developed core systems of the game.
Notable Contributions
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- Turn-based system to control game progression
- Skills
- Varied abilities used to manipulate the maze and steer enemy AI behavior
- Cards
- Roguelike card system used to unlock new abilities, resources, and narrative clues
Planetarium Marble
February 2025 / Team of 5 : Programmer / 4 Weeks
Planetarium Marble is a multiplayer party game created for encouraging an audience to interact with the planetarium in a new way. With a scan of a QR code, players use their mobile devices gyroscope to control their marble in an infected game mode.
Notable Contributions
- Multiplayer Connection
- Realtime data transfer between browser, local/online servers, and Unity
- Up to 10+ player count
- Gyroscope Controls