Hello! I’m Gabriel Gambetta.

I’m a senior software engineer at Google Zürich; the author of Computer Graphics from Scratch; and an aspiring writer, filmmaker and actor.

In the past I worked at Improbable in London for a few years. It was a seed-stage, 30-person startup when I joined; by the time I left, it was an unicorn with 500+ people. Experiencing this from the inside, and being a small part of it, was an amazing experience.

In the more distant past I founded and ran a small indie game dev studio for almost a decade. I also taught Computer Graphics at my university.

To get in touch, just send me an email. I’m also on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and IMDb.

Here are some of the things I’ve made over the years.

Tech

• Computer Graphics from scratch: A book about 3D rendering, covering rasterization and raytracing, based on the lectures I gave during my teaching years. You can buy the book, published by No Starch Press.

• Fast-Paced Multiplayer: A series of articles about Client-Side Prediction, and the architecture of fast-paced client-server multiplayer games. This series has become one of the main references on the topic found on the Internet.

  • Client-Server Game Architecture | Client-Side Prediction and Server Reconciliation | Entity Interpolation | Lag Compensation | Live Demo
  • Also available in Korean and Russian (links inside).

• Pathfinding Demystified: A series of articles about pathfinding, focusing on the A* algorithm.

  • Generic Search | Search Strategies | A* Demystified | Practical A*
  • Also available in Russian (links inside).

• Tiny Raytracer: A raytracer with lighting, shadows and reflections written in 912 bytes of JavaScript.

• Emulator-Backed Remakes: A proof of concept of a revolutionary way to make remakes of old games.

• libz80: An emulator of the Z80 processor (C library).

• Mystery Studio: The game development startup I founded and ran from 2002 to 2011.

Writing & Filmmaking

• The Golden Seed: a thriller novel. The Da Vinci Code meets Jason Bourne.

  • Buy on paperback or ebook.

  • Some notes about my creative and technical process.

    • How I wrote my first novel during my daily commute.
    • How I wrote my novel using only open source tools.

• Opt-in: an hour-long, no-budget feature film I wrote, produced, directed, and edited; made with a tiny, all-volunteer cast and crew.

  • “An idealistic engineer lands his dream job at the biggest social media company in the world. But when he discovers the dark side of the business, he must decide whether to stay silent or risk everything to expose the truth.”.

  • Watch it on Amazon Prime Video.

  • More info on IMDb.