12 years, 8,000 commits: solo dev takes Spartan engine from yellow triangle to drivable island
ssh4net · x · 2026-11-08
Solo developer Panos Karabelas reflects on twelve years of building his Spartan game engine: from a yellow triangle in 2014 to, after 8,000+ commits on the same codebase, a 30 km island with towns, an airport, 200+ roads, forests, an FFT ocean and cars simulated at 200 Hz — all path traced.
For him, "finished" means something specific: enough features to ship real games, not tech demos — including an editor, Lua scripting, a standalone runtime, and a game builder that packages a world for release. He also explains why the engine was his rocket, and why it won't be yours.
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