Behnam Iranzad

Game Programmer. Currently working on my own game.

[Behnam Iranzad @Behiiri]

@Jonathan_Blow Congrats!

[Behnam Iranzad @Behiiri]

It's amazing to witness the release of an incredible game that has been in development for 10 years.

Best of luck to the team and the game!

[Behnam Iranzad @Behiiri]

I made this cube using Direct3D a couple of months ago during the inhuman internet blackout. I’d like to continue working on it someday so I can render textures on the screen and finally replace SDL. Doing things from scratch is a lot of work but I love it.

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It’s been raining all day here. I used to hate the rain because it interfered with my internet, but I love the sound of rain, so sometimes I listen to a rain noise while programming.

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@valigo Medal of Honor
https://t.co/mYERh6opY8

Silent Hill
https://t.co/tfern7DP7t

The Revenge of Shinobi
https://t.co/LooKQCEZDQ

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Kinda late on this but here are:

Three games I played and loved as a kid
Three games my cousin gave me when I first got my PC
Three games I absolutely love but have never finished

There are many more games that I love...

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One downside of participating in a game jam for me is that it takes away my time from working on my own game.

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AI should be used to enhance learning, instead of bypassing it.

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If I'm not learning then I'm wasting time. To me being a good programmer is a life long goal and I know that I might never be as good as good programmers but at least I can be better than most.

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I participated in a game jam last week to try something new and also practice some game design. I couldn't finish it in time, but at least I learned a lot by not using AI. I would rather not finish a project and learn a lot than finish it and not learn anything.

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I'm currently working on a placeholder inventory UI, and I feel like programming the UI is taking as much time as the game itself. I know it's better to spend time making the game fun instead of implementing UI, but I need to be able to test things.

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@tsoding I guess, instead they ask why you don't use LLMs.

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This book has also inspired "The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses" which I started reading today.

[htmx.org / CEO of the Anti-Squeeslop League (same) @htmx_org]

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing programmers rather than actual architects to pay attention to Christopher Alexander

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Meanwhile, I'm implementing this debug/developer console with my own UI library, which is still missing scrollbar and text input.

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Soon I'll have to work on the game design aspects of my game. I had a lot of ideas but I decade to keep most of them for the next game. and instead make the current one as simple as possible. but of course designing a game is a long time process and it can change.

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So far, 2026 has been a crazy year here, first the massacres and then the war, and all the internet blackouts. which all of this discouraged me from working on my game for a while, but I'm back on track now. making games is hard on it's own.

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In 2026, I'll focus more on graphics programming, as I've been doing so for the last couple of weeks.

[Behnam Iranzad @Behiiri]

In 2026, I'll focus more on graphics programming, as I've been doing so for the last couple of weeks.

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Sometimes these changes are actually hard to apply, but most of the time it's just a feeling, and the actual work takes about a day or two.

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It's been about a month since I last posted about the game I'm working on. I think I've been going through some kind of burnout. whenever the existing code needs a big change, I always feel like it will be so hard to do because of all the bugs that I have to fix.

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Rest in peace Danya.