Game & engine programmer

Hello, I am Luai Omer, aka Lasovar.

I'm a game development programming student who loves the part of games players never see — engines, editors and tools. Right now I'm working on BANX, an upcoming game on Steam, and building my own C++ engine, Quelos.

See my work Get in touch

// hello.cpp — no exceptions, no excuses#include "Quelos/Engine.hpp"struct Developer {    std::string_view name  = "Luai Omer";    std::string_view alias = "Lasovar";    std::array focus { "engines", "tools", "games" };};int main() noexcept {    flecs::world world;    world.entity("Lasovar").set(Developer{});    return Quelos::Run(world);}

No. 01 · now playing

BANX

A hand-animated action-adventure set in a solar-punk world.

Play as BANX, a hero who fights with a balloon as his weapon… and head? Fast, free-flow combat against hundreds of enemies, an epic cast of bosses, and a dense, vertical city to bounce through. It's the game I'm working on right now.

Free-flow combat
Hundreds of enemies
Epic bosses
Vertical city

studio: Uni Dreams
platforms: PC, PlayStation, Xbox
release: To be announced

Wishlist on Steam

BANX key art: the balloon-headed hero mid-punch, surrounded by the game's colourful cast

No. 02 · about

About me

Programmer by trade, engine nerd by choice.

Who I am

I'm Luai — online I go by Lasovar. I'm a game development programming student, and the part of game development I enjoy most is the part players never see: engine architecture, rendering, tooling, and the editor workflows that make everyone else on a team faster.

Right now I'm working on BANX, an upcoming hand-animated action-adventure on Steam. Alongside it I'm building Quelos, a cross-platform C++ engine and editor, from scratch, and I prototype gameplay in Unity and join game jams.

What I care about

Editors should be fast. A lot of engines treat the editor as “just a tool”, but it's where developers spend most of their day. I don't want to stare at a screen for five minutes waiting for code to compile or assets to reimport.

Tools are for the whole team. A game isn't made only by programmers. Level designers and artists need workflows with as little friction as possible — visual scripting that compiles to native code, version-control-friendly scenes, and file locking right inside the editor.

Timeline

Jul 2022
The Handbook · GMTK Game Jam 2022

A dark, dice-driven metroidvania made in Unity with a team of five.
Oct 2022
Catpire! · Mini Jam 118: Vampires

Engineer and level designer on a pixel-art vampire-cat metroidvania.
Jan 2023
Ludum Dare 52

Another jam, another game — written in C#.
Ongoing
Quelos

Building a cross-platform C++ game engine and editor from scratch.
Now
BANX

Working on an upcoming hand-animated action-adventure on Steam.

No. 03 · projects

Things I've built

My own engine, and a couple of game jam entries I'm proud of. (BANX gets the spotlight up top.)

Open source · MIT In development

Quelos

A cross-platform game engine focused on editor functionality and developer workflow — a fast, snappy editor that doesn't compromise the runtime's performance, or the developer's time. The editor runs on Windows, macOS and Linux.