Robert Beckebans
Technical Director, Managing Director And Co-Founder at Masterbrain Bytes GmbH & Co. KG
Greater Bielefeld Area Germany
Summary
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RockstarRobert Beckebans is a game developer and technical director with 13 years of experience, co-founding and leading Masterbrain Bytes where he shepherded the farming simulator Cattle and Crops from concept to gold. He specializes in graphics and engine development, with hands-on expertise modernizing renderers—evidenced by contributions to the RBDOOM-3-BFG project updating DX12/Vulkan paths and multimedia subsystems. As a lead programmer he bridges technical leadership and artist-friendly tooling, prioritizing rendering fidelity and workflow improvements that make content creation smoother. Based in the Greater Bielefeld Area, he combines entrepreneurial drive with deep engine-level problem solving and a knack for refactoring legacy systems into modern, maintainable code.
13 years of coding experience
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
vulkan10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sdl10
ffmpeg9
gam8
multithreading7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Doom 3 BFG Edition source port with updated DX12 / Vulkan renderer and modern game engine features
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 7 reviews, 119 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on updating and refactoring core components of the game engine, specifically related to the Vulkan and DirectX renderers. Their work includes integrating SDL for platform-specific functions, refactoring audio handling, and updating the cinematic playback system with FFMPEG and BinkDec support. These contributions reflect a focus on improving the rendering and multimedia aspects of the Doom 3 BFG Edition source port.
64-bitglobal-illuminationlinuxgamingidtech4
RobertBeckebans/vkDOOM3
Aug 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 7 months
vulkan
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