Jaylon Sifuentes

Programmer

Vulkan Engine

September 2025 / Solo Dev / 2 months
Github Repo

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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

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Notable Features
  • Photon Mapping Global Illumination
  • Multi-bounce utilizing BRDF and Russian roulette termination
  • Octree accelerated photon gathering
  • Real-time visualization with adjustable photon count and gather radius

Voxel Octree

March 2025 / Solo Dev
Horse model by Hadi Halimi

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Notable Features
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  • 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.
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Notable Contributions
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  • Turns
    • 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
Play on itch.io
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.

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Notable Contributions
  • Multiplayer Connection
    • Realtime data transfer between browser, local/online servers, and Unity
    • Up to 10+ player count
  • Gyroscope Controls

Happy! The Hippo

2024 / Grumbismal Games : SWD / Current
Play demo on Steam
3D Platformer collectathon where you uncover the ominous story behind this lost PS2 game's cancellation. Hidden in-game and within game files, scattered evidence reveals why this project never released.

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Notable Contributions
  • File Explorer
    • Retro-inspired file explorer used to discover story fragments hidden in game files
    • Option for exporting files into the game that unlock new content