About

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.

Typography

The following fonts are used in the making of parts of this website or used as fallback fonts if your computer doesn’t already have them (click to see their licenses):

Berylium

Licensed under Public Domain

Poetsen One

Copyright (c) 2012, Pablo Impallari (www.impallari.com|impallari@gmail.com), Rodrigo Fuenzalida (www.rfuenzalida.com|hello@rfuenzalida.com), with Reserved Font Name Poetsen. This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 . This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: https://openfontlicense.org

SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007

PREAMBLE
The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with others.

The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives, however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.

DEFINITIONS
“Font Software” refers to the set of files released by the Copyright Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may include source files, build scripts and documentation.

“Reserved Font Name” refers to any names specified as such after the copyright statement(s).

“Original Version” refers to the collection of Font Software components as distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).
“Modified Version” refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting, or substituting – in part or in whole – any of the components of the Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a new environment.

“Author” refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.

PERMISSION & CONDITIONS
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify, redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font Software, subject to the following conditions:

Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as presented to the users.
The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written permission.
The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the Font Software.
TERMINATION
This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are not met.

DISCLAIMER
THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.

Primer

Licensed under Public Domain.