About Me

Hello there, I'm Martônio Júnior, a creative developer who's been programming since 2015 and specializes in:

Swift programming of apps and frameworks for Apple platforms (iOS, macOS, watchOS, etc.)
Unity Game Development for PCs, Mobile and XR
Game Design, with a focus on systemic games

As a Technician in Computing (2013-2017) @ IFCE, Bachelor in Digital Systems and Media (2017-2021) and Masters in Computer Science (2022-2024) @ Universidade Federal do Ceará, I focus on having a diverse background of skills, having also dabbled with: Electronics, Photography, Design, Audiovisual Works, Accessibility, Machine Learning, Data Visualization, Research, Presentations and many other areas...

⭐️ You can view some of the highlights of my work over the years in Projects

Currently, I've been dedicated to my personal projects as an Indie Developer, but I am open to work opportunities, so anyone reading this that likes what you see from this website and wants to hire me for contract, contact me here.

What can you expect from this site?

Posts talking about a variety topics from Design, Programming and Game Development and beyond
Showcase of projects I developed over the years and the process behind them
Devlogs about new projects I'm making
Some cool arts and crafts I made on my free time
Recommendations of cool content I find around the web as an Internet Explorer (get it?)
New things I'm doing and learning that could be useful to others
Updates about the Website and it's features
Essays and Rumblings about subjects I'm interested in

🔭 What projects I'm doing?

Improving this website with content and features ;)
Developing frameworks for Swift game development
Making a macOS app to link Notion, Obsidian, Logseq and Eagle together and use them in unison (maybe it'll become it's own Personal Knowledge Management)
Contributing to open source projects and designing some games in the background whenever time allows...

🌱 What I'm currently focused on learning?

Staying up-to-date with the latest Apple frameworks and technologies
Increasing my breadth of knowledge on Swift (Strict Concurrency, Interoperability)
General game development frameworks in Swift (RealityKit, SwiftGodot, Fireblade Engine)
Multiplatform Swift development
Deepening my knowledge of Godot and GDScript

🔮 What I'd love to learn/do once I get more time for?

visionOS and more Mixed Reality development
Swift on Server's tech stack (Vapor, SwiftNIO, etc.)
Computer Graphics using the Slang language
3D Modelling and learning how USD and MaterialX work
C++ development
More Game Design projects

What else should I know about this site?

Updates may or may not be consistent, as they depend on the free time I have and work-life balance comes first for me. This also applies to which topics are covered and when they're covered.
I tend to treat posts as full-blown pages that evolve over time instead of being one-and-done, so it's worth coming back to read an old post.
The source code used to generate this website is Swift with a smidge of CSS for styling, but the goal long-term is for it to be 100% written in Swift :)
- I plan to add new and interesting features to the website over time, but I'm currently not accepting feature requests and any pull requests will be closed.

License

Posts

Unless otherwise specified, blog posts for this website are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, which applies to text, screenshots, artworks, diagrams and other types of interactive media used to build them.

Code Snippets

The following applies to code snippets and example project files in posts: for packages and projects, please check it's respective repositories for licensing (and remember that no licensing doesn't mean it should be used).

MIT-0 (No Attribution)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Credit

If you want to credit me in your work you can do so by mentioning me—Martônio Júnior—and/or Arts, Blueprints, Code!. Don't forget to add a link to this website in the mentions or to the original post of the snippet(s) you grabbed.