Hi! I’m Elias Farhan, an indie game programmer from Switzerland. I mostly do C++ and C#, teach some games programming, work on game engines and develop some silly games.

• Head Instructor of the Games Programming Department at SAE Institute Geneva.
• Co-founder of indie game studio Team KwaKwa, based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Co-organizer of the Game Developers Suisse Romande Meetup.

Games

Beach Slap, Splash Blast Panic, Soup Raiders and a decade of game jam entries are all on the games page.

Projects

CompGraphEditor, SplashOnline, NekoPhysics, NekoLib and more, over on the projects page.

Talks & CV

I speak about rollback netcode and optimisation at conferences like CppCon 2024 and ADDON. Slides and videos are on the talks page. My CV has the longer story.

Blog

I write about graphics programming, game engines, C++, teaching and travel. Browse everything, or dive into gamedev, graphics, c++, thoughts or travel.

Recent posts

• Why I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0

• 2025 wrapup

• Graphics Programming Conference 2025

• Herofest + Stunfest 2025

• SAE convention 2025

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