CJ Satnarine

Hallo, I'm CJ! I'm a 20 year old from Kitchener, Ontario with dreams of being a graphics programmer/technical artist/game developer. I attended Software Engineering Technology at Conestoga College between September 2023 and August 2024. Turned out software engineering wasn't my cup of tea, so I dropped out. Nowadays I'm just working on projects and trying to teach myself a few things.

I do not use generative AI in any of my work. At this moment, I do not plan on using generative AI because I do not need it. My goal is to learn, not to be productive and fast; AI is a tool that I'll prefer not to use for my projects.

I try to use mainly free and open source softwares (FOSS) for my projects.

Vaxandi Forritari

The phrase Vaxandi Forritari is Icelandic for learning programmer. I loved programming since I was 16, discovering my love for it in highschool when learning to make a game in the Unity game engine. I'm familiar with the following programming languages:

• C#: learnt it in 2021 for scripting in Unity
• Java: learnt it in Computer Science class in highschool, spent most of my time in Grades 11 and 12 using Java
• Processing: used it for making graphics in Media Arts class in highschool
• Python: learnt it for scripting with the Blender Python API, later used it to try out Pygame and Blender's game engine
• Arduino: this is C but I learnt this before learning C/C++, used it in Computer Engineering classes in highschool
• C/C++: used a bit of it for programming Mirobo UBMP4s in high school Computer Engineering classes, learnt way more in college when persuing software engineering
• 6808 Assembly: learnt it in college and I never want to touch it again
• HTML, CSS: learnt it to make this website
• JavaScript: learnt it to script in Three.js
• Lua: used to configure Neovim, used a bit with LÖVE

Aspiring Graphics Programmer

My admiration for computer graphics grew with my interests in programming and 3D animation. Since July of 2024, I have been trying teaching myself graphics programming (it's difficult but I love it). Currently, I am teaching myself OpenGL and GLSL. Eventually, I hope to move onto something modern like Vulkan once I'm more experienced. I also hope to experiment more with HLSL in Unity and the Godot Shader Language in Godot.

Amateur Linguist

From a young child I had an interest in linguistics. For a while, I was grinding Duolingo, but that felt more of a game than actually learning, so I stopped that and tried learning languages through other means. My native tongue is English, but I find interest in these other languages:

• Deutsch: currently learning both Hochdeutsch and Schwiizerdütsch from my Swiss friends
• Español: learnt some Spanish when I was younger, not really good at it but I can barely hold a conversation
• Français: learnt a bit in school, but my French is really bad as I often confuse Parisian French with Swiss French
• Nederlands: learnt some when I was younger, I'm not as good as I used to be
• Dansk: an unfortunate event occured
• Íslenska: I know this cool Icelandic guy and the language is so cool because they still use þorn
• Norsk: Norwegian is interesting but I already know some Danish and I'm not sure if I want to learn Danish but less funny-sounding
• Lingua Latina: learnt a bit in school, pretty cool language
• ελληνικά: Greek is kinda cool, I wanna learn it in the future
• Русский: I have no interest in learning Russian but I am going to torture myself by learning Russian just to read Tolstoy's War and Peace its original language
• Suomi: my brother is learning Finnish so I might learn it as well for the funnies
• Davvisámegiella: I discovered Northern Sámi through music, and I think it's a cool language
• Kalaallisut: Greenlandic was also discovered through music, I think it's also cool

Unfortunately, I do not think I'll be able to learn all of these languages. That's fine, I'm happy about learning as much as I can.

Wannabe Game Developer

I have had an interest in game development for as long as I have been learning to program. Throughout my time programming, I have used (and plan to use) a couple of game engines:

• Unity: this was where I learnt how to program in C#, and where most of my experience lies in terms of game engines (picked it up in 2021)
• Godot: learning Godot because I love FOSS, I use C# instead of GDScript for scripting (picked it up in 2025)
• UPBGE: tried out Blender's game engine for a few months but I wasn't a fan of scripting in Python so I ditched it
• GDevelop: yeah no
• LÖVE: tried it out but it was more of a playground than using it as an actual game engine
• Pygame: did a bit in highschool, but that's about it
• Kyzen: soon to be first beta tester of Kyzen 2D game engine

Adventuring Animator

While learning and falling in love with programming at age 16, I also fell in love with Blender. My introduction came from Media Arts class, where I initially learnt Blender for making assets for Unity. I fell in love with creating models and experimenting with shaders. The following two years of high school were spent developing my skills in the software. After graduating highschool, I stopped using the software to focus on software engineering for college for about two years. Now I hope to revisit this old passion of mine, and also venture into the unknown territory of digital art with Krita.

Music Enjoyer

I listen to a lot of music. Uh, what type of music? It's a complicated mess. The genres and languages of the music I listen to is very diverse. I hope to eventually learn how to make my own music for future animation and game development projects using LMMS.