conferences.adoc

Conferences

Michalis Kamburelis enjoys speaking at various conferences about Castle Game Engine.

• Upcoming:

  • I will attend (and give a talk) Zlot Programistów Delphi 2025, Polish conference near Warsaw on 8-9 October 2025.

• 17-21 September 2025: Pascal Conference organized by Sorpetaler in Germany (Sundern).

  • See also my announcement close to conference.

  • I gave a short talk about using IFC and the use-case of it at Sorpetaler Fensterbau GmbH.

  • We also showed the engine during a lecture for students teaching Pascal.

  • I was also proud to help presenting a cool new thing made by Benjamin Rosseaux (BeRo). It’s not open-source (yet), watch his GitHub for updates :)

• 20th June 2025: Delphi Day in Italy (Piacenza).

  • Slides

  • New example shown during presentation is now part of the engine examples: examples/physics/physics_throw_chickens.

  • I also shown a few of existing examples:

    • platformer,

    • explore_impressive_castle,

    • dungeons_and_skeletons_fight (complete FPS game using Blender, Sketchfab, Quaternius models, TCastleMoveAttack).

• 5-6 June 2025: Delphi Summit in Netherlands (Amsterdam).

  • News about gamepad support, which we shown at the conference

  • Example shown at the conference - simple walking (with game controllers or keyboard/mouse) around the farm, talking with weird NPCs and a small story

  • Slides shown

• 9-10 April 2025: modern Pascal course.

  • online, organized by BSC, Embarcadero branch in Poland.

  • Repository with all the examples: https://github.com/modern-pascal/modern-pascal-course . Can be build with both FPC and Delphi, GitHub Actions check it.

  • Slides (in Polish): Day 1, Day 2.

  • News with details.

• 29 March 2025: Presentation at Pascal Cafe 2025, organized by Blaise Pascal Magazine.

  • Slides

  • Sample application using 3D scanned object

  • Something big presented during the conference, as a gift for the community :)

• 9th December 2024: Presentation at Meetup Delphi in Bielsko-Biała (Poland). This was a bigger presentation about engine features, physics, Blender, Sketchfab, Steam integration.

  • Slides (in Polish).

  • If you don’t speak Polish, but you’re interested in the topics — slides from my previous presentation in Cologne are the closest equivalent in English.

• 15-16 October 2024: Presentation at Zlot Programistów Delphi 2024 ("Delphi Programmer’s Meeting 2024", in Polish).

  • examples/3d_games/dungeons_and_skeletons_fight: Demo application: complete FPS game using Blender, Sketchfab, Quaternius models, TCastleMoveAttack.

  • Slides (in Polish)

• 10-11 October 2024: Presentation at FPC and Lazarus event in Cologne (Köln).

  • Slides.

  • See announcement before conference.

  • thoughts after conference.

• 21st August 2024: Presentation at Dev Days of Summer 2024:

  • Watch replay of the presentation

  • Sample project

  • Presentaion slides

• 6th April 2024: Pascal Cafe 2024. I made a presentation introducing Castle Game Engine and then discussing some details about mobile (Android and iOS) development with CGE.

  • Presentation slides

  • Sample application (for slides "Physics and Coding" section)

• 26-27 October 2023: ITDevCon - Delphi conference in Rome. I had 2 talks about CGE.

  • Announcement.

  • Example projects

  • Presentation (slides) from 1st talk, "Creating 3D games and applications using Castle Game Engine"

  • Presentation (slides) from 2nd talk, "Advanced Castle Game Engine: forms, 3D generation, shaders, customization"

  • Recording of the first talk

  • Recording of the second talk

• 20-21 September 2023: Zlot Programistów Delphi, Polish conference.

  • Slides from my talk presenting Castle Game Engine - editor, coding, plans

  • Examples from my talk. These examples are ready and complete, as usual — i.e. you can just build and run them from CGE editor or Delphi or (non-FMX examples) from Lazarus.

• July 2023: I had a talk and CGE course at the International Pascal Congress in Salamanca.

  • I collected my positive thoughts about Pascal future after the conference here.

  • Recording of my talk "Developing games and graphic visualizations in Pascal".

  • Read slides from my talk "Developing games and graphic visualizations in Pascal".

  • Castle Game Engine Workshop (course) with sample application source code.

• February 2023: Online conference DelphiCon 2023, I gave a talk about CGE physics.

  • Watch my talk "Getting Physical in Your Games with Castle Game Engine"

• December 2022: Online conference organized by Embarcadero CodeRage 2022.

  • Watch my talk on YouTube. I presented TCastleControl for FMX and VCL.

  • The latest documentation about TCastleControl for FMX and VCL is here.

• October 2022: I gave a talk at the Game Industry Conference in Poznań, Poland.

  • Watch my talk on YouTube

  • Slides: Castle Game Engine and the joy of making and using a custom game engine

  • Thoughts after my GIC 2022 presentation

• November 2020: I gave a talk at the MiniDebConf Online “Gaming Edition”.

  • Watch my talk here: Castle Game Engine - overview and upcoming features.

• 2011: I published and presented a paper at the Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2011 conference. The paper presented our Compositing Shaders, aka "shader effects", which continue to be our advised way to use shaders in CGE.

• 2010: I published and presented a paper at Web3D 2010 conference. I presented our X3D nodes to use shadow maps, which continue to be how you can use shadow maps in CGE.