A game engineering course in C++, OpenGL, and Vulkan, taught in Brazilian Portuguese. You write a game from scratch, without a pre-made engine and without AI-generated code, and you understand every line you wrote.
Doors open January-February 2027. First batch: 50-100 students. The waitlist locks in 50% off the early bird price (R$ 397 instead of R$ 797).
AI is an excellent tool once you know what to ask. I use it every day. The problem with learning low-level game dev from scratch is exactly that: you don't yet know what to ask. You don't know descriptor sets exist, that command buffers have a lifecycle, that swap chain plus presentation mode is a whole class of bugs.
YouTube has excellent material (The Cherno, Brendan Galea, Acerola, Casey Muratori), but it's spread across hundreds of hours, in different orders, in English. You become your own curriculum editor. The Forge is that curation done for you: the right sequence, one project from start to finish, in Portuguese, with support when you get stuck.
No job promises, no income promises. What the course delivers is what it teaches: solid fundamentals and a real project built by you.
Three fronts, one spine project: an isometric game written from scratch in C++ and SDL2, then refactored to OpenGL, and finally a Vulkan renderer. In total: 35 modules, about 80 hours of lessons and 50 hours of guided practice.
From build system (CMake) to game loop: window and input with SDL2, sprites, isometric projection, tilesets, game mechanics (planting, time, HUD), and a deep dive into memory, RAII, and smart pointers. Ends with building and distributing the binary for Linux and Windows.
Deliverable: a complete isometric game, written from scratch, running on your GitHub.
What actually happens on each draw call: GLSL shaders, VBO/VAO, textures, model/view/projection matrices, 3D camera, Phong lighting, framebuffers, and post-processing.
Deliverable: the same game from Front 01, refactored to run on OpenGL.
The explicit API from scratch: instance and validation layers, devices and queues, swap chain, render pass and pipeline, command buffers and synchronization, buffers and descriptor sets, SPIR-V, an intro to compute shaders, and debugging with RenderDoc.
Deliverable: a Vulkan renderer running the course game.
It's for you if: you want to build your own games instead of assembling parts in Unity or Unreal; you already code in a modern language (JS, Python, Java) and want to cross the C++ barrier; or you're an experienced dev who wants to understand what the machine actually does again.
It isn't for you if: you want a finished game in a week, you're after a LinkedIn certificate, you want the click-and-deploy engine experience, or you bail at the first segfault.
R$ 397 early bird (waitlist, 50% off, 7-day window after doors open), or up to 12 interest-free installments of R$ 33.08. After that, R$ 797 (up to 12 installments of R$ 66.42): same content, without the monthly live and the discount.
No fine print and no price-by-country tricks: the course is priced in Brazilian Real and built for Brazil.
If any of these doesn't work for you, don't join. Better for both of us.
Deep C++, OpenGL, and Vulkan content barely exists in Portuguese today. That's the gap the Forge fills. Heads up: the course is taught in Brazilian Portuguese. If you don't read Portuguese fluently, this isn't the course for you yet; an English version (Forge) is planned to follow in 2027.
Doors open January-February 2027. The waitlist hears first, locks in 50% off the early bird, and gets the bonus PDF. No spam: that's all.