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#1
Suggestion Board / Re: Zig topic?
Last post by hermit - Feb 19, 2026, 02:40 PMQuote from: travisvroman on Feb 18, 2026, 11:49 AMI'll be interested to see how your project comes along in the future!
I'll be sure to share about it on this forum for sure!
#2
Welcome / Introduce yourself!
Last post by travisvroman - Feb 18, 2026, 07:31 PMHello, and welcome to the Kohi Game Engine forums! After reading the Rules, introduce yourself! Tell everyone here a bit about you.
Give us a bit of background, maybe things like where you are from, what you love to do, and what brought you here.
I'll go ahead and start us off. I'm Travis Vroman, although if you're here you likely already know that. I started programming at the age of 7 on an MS-DOS machine using QBASIC writing simple menu-driven games. That means I've been writing code for 30+ years, technically.
Aside from this one, I have a personal website that I update every once in a while at travisvroman.com. You can find out a lot more about me there.
In 2021, I launched the Kohi Game Engine series on my YouTube channel as an educational resource on a way to build a game engine. Not the only way, not even always "the right way", but my way. It's a massive, ongoing experiment, and now I'm using it to build a game called Shadows of Illumina.
A couple quick facts, I switched to C from C++ when starting this project, and haven't looked back since. I've technically had my YouTube channel since 2009, though I only seriously started posting to it around 2017. It started off as a car channel, believe it or not! Most of those videos have been moved though.
I live-stream twice a week typically at around 9PM Eastern time over at my Twitch channel.
Give us a bit of background, maybe things like where you are from, what you love to do, and what brought you here.
I'll go ahead and start us off. I'm Travis Vroman, although if you're here you likely already know that. I started programming at the age of 7 on an MS-DOS machine using QBASIC writing simple menu-driven games. That means I've been writing code for 30+ years, technically.
Aside from this one, I have a personal website that I update every once in a while at travisvroman.com. You can find out a lot more about me there.
In 2021, I launched the Kohi Game Engine series on my YouTube channel as an educational resource on a way to build a game engine. Not the only way, not even always "the right way", but my way. It's a massive, ongoing experiment, and now I'm using it to build a game called Shadows of Illumina.
A couple quick facts, I switched to C from C++ when starting this project, and haven't looked back since. I've technically had my YouTube channel since 2009, though I only seriously started posting to it around 2017. It started off as a car channel, believe it or not! Most of those videos have been moved though.
I live-stream twice a week typically at around 9PM Eastern time over at my Twitch channel.
#3
Suggestion Board / Re: IRC Feedback!
Last post by travisvroman - Feb 18, 2026, 11:51 AMQuote from: Ramon on Feb 17, 2026, 08:09 PMI'm happy using posts and DMs if needed.
This is me too, if I'm honest. I much prefer this way.
#4
Suggestion Board / Re: Zig topic?
Last post by travisvroman - Feb 18, 2026, 11:49 AMIt's a fine balance, for sure. However I think language specific topics do make sense.
I'll be interested to see how your project comes along in the future!
I'll be interested to see how your project comes along in the future!
#5
Suggestion Board / Re: Zig topic?
Last post by hermit - Feb 18, 2026, 11:10 AMQuote from: travisvroman on Feb 18, 2026, 07:41 AMThank you for the suggestion! I've gone ahead and created it.
Awesome! I'm glad you decided to, even though I realize it's a balance between endlessly diluting the activity and making things more discoverable.
I'm currently stuck writing some .NET web app for a community effort, but once I'm done with that (hopefully in the next 2 weeks) I plan to start playing with Vulkan and Zig.
#6
Suggestion Board / Re: Zig topic?
Last post by travisvroman - Feb 18, 2026, 07:41 AMThank you for the suggestion! I've gone ahead and created it.
#7
Suggestion Board / Zig topic?
Last post by hermit - Feb 18, 2026, 01:47 AMI suppose we could just use the general topic since otherwise we might end up in a situation where there is a topic for every single language out there, but I thought I'd suggest it anyway!
#8
Suggestion Board / Re: IRC Feedback!
Last post by Ramon - Feb 17, 2026, 08:09 PMQuote from: travisvroman on Feb 17, 2026, 07:40 PMRe: IRC - Is there something you'd rather use, aside from Discord?
Not really, but don't take my opinion into account, I was never a fan of IRC even when it was popular. It's useful as a collaborative tool just like slack: you can start conferences, share the screen, code, etc. Other people might be more interested in that kind of interaction, I'm happy using posts and DMs if needed.
#9
Suggestion Board / Re: IRC Feedback!
Last post by travisvroman - Feb 17, 2026, 07:40 PM@Ramon thank you for the feedback! I'd agree with this, I know I usually think a lot more about what I post, and tend to even edit a bit, before actually posting. If anything it'll also help eliminate some noise in what might otherwise be a concise and organized conversation.
Re: IRC - Is there something you'd rather use, aside from Discord?
Re: IRC - Is there something you'd rather use, aside from Discord?
#10
Suggestion Board / Re: IRC Feedback!
Last post by Ramon - Feb 17, 2026, 07:06 PMI always prefered forums because in my experience people think before they write so it's harder to spam. Also it's much easier to follow conversations and search interesting posts.
But I understand IRC has it's uses even though I probably won't use it.
But I understand IRC has it's uses even though I probably won't use it.