Wipeout is a futuristic racing game that was originally released in 1995 for the PlayStation.

The game fused fast gameplay, striking art direction, and licensed electronic music.

It was a cultural phenomenon in an early showcase for 3D graphics and console gaming.

Dominic Sibluski is an engineer, game developer, and hacker, who has released projects

such as VoidCall, Quake VR,

and Q1K3, which is a 13-kilabyte version of Quake written in JavaScript. A version of

wipeout source code was leaked in 2022, and Dominic created a nearly complete rewrite of the game

that compiles to Windows, Linux, MacOS, and Wassam.

Dominic joins the podcast to talk about the project.

Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning community builder, who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal.

Joe got a start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Gary's

mod.

And game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.

Welcome, Dominic. How are doing? I'm doing great. Thanks.

Awesome. Thank you so much for joining us today. So to kick off, you know, we're here to talk

about a rewai of a classic PlayStation game, but I wanted to know what was your game development

journey? How did you get to this point?

Oh, it's a pretty long journey. I think the first game I ever wrote was on my parents' 486 in QuickBasic.

But then it got really hard to develop games because developing games for Windows was complicated,

setting up compilers and whatever. And I didn't do that for a while. But then later, I completely ignored flash, but I remember when Steve Jobs announced that

the iPhone won't have flash on it, I thought that maybe there's an opportunity to do it

with like the things that the browser comes with, like HTML 5.

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