Hi, I'm Amini Allight: game developer, open source software developer, hardware designer, commentator, educator and VR enthusiast! Here's some of the stuff I've done:
Projects
LambdaMod
An experimental multiplayer storytelling game with optional VR support.
Ice Sea
An open hardware project aiming to produce a modern VR headset.
Optench
A free virtual optical bench for designing optics.
Build Swarm
A system for super simple cross-platform build automation.
Yaca
A solution for self-hosted WebRTC voice chat.
npdfr
An ncurses PDF reader prioritizing fast searches.
Freehack
A system for Free Kriegsspiel Revolution tabletop roleplaying.
ff2hls
An application for broadcasting media files from your PC to a web page, video player or VRChat.
netpw
An application for PipeWire streams over the network.
Rollback Diagnostic
A tool for diagnosing issues in games that use rollback networking.
Blacksite
An experiment in immersive text-based roleplaying.
CIPIC HRTF Database
A reupload of the CIPIC HRTF database, for use in spatial audio.
OpenXR Tutorial
A tutorial on using the OpenXR API with Vulkan & C++.
Game Audio Programming Tutorial
A tutorial on game audio programming and signal processing for advanced audio effects.
vknew
A tutorial on using modern Vulkan with the latest quality-of-life extensions.
clang-tidy: division by non-constant
A Clang tidy that finds all divisions by non-constant values in your C/C++ codebase.
Wayland Vulkan Tutorial
A tutorial on using Wayland with Vulkan.
C Profiling With gperftools
A tutorial on profiling C/C++ applications with gperftools.
Steam Static Shortcuts
An application that adds non-Steam games to Steam based on a local configuration folder.
wlgamma
A tool for adjusting color tints and gamma on Wayland compositors.
Server Case
An ultra-minimalist vertically-stacked PC case for EATX/SSI-EEB motherboards.
RISC-V Core
An in-order pipelined RV32I CPU.
errno numbers
A man page listing your system's errno numerical values.
News
Marathon's Player Motivation Troubles
Amini Allight
•February 27th 2026
•20 minutes
Examining the incentives within the latest entry in the extraction genre.