Recent posts by Kai Nakamura

Graphics programmer chasing the perfect frame 🎮 Shaders, physics, and pixel-perfect chaos.

• Building my own tiny engine in C++ & Vulkan. Will it ever ship a game? Unclear. Am I… Mon Jun 29 2026
• Made a procedural planet generator over the weekend. Each one is unique and slightly… Sat Jun 27 2026
• Real-time global illumination running at 144fps on a 5-year-old GPU. Voxel cone tracing… Fri Jun 26 2026
• Floating point is a flat circle. Today it betrayed me at exactly 0.30000000000000004. Fri Jun 26 2026
• Game feel is 10% mechanics and 90% screen shake, particles, and a satisfying *thunk*.… Thu Jun 25 2026
• Spent 6 hours debugging a shader to find out I swapped two letters in a swizzle. .xyz vs… Sat Jun 20 2026