This page is intended to be a showcase of my personal programming works I created over the last years. It’s been only since around 2001 and what you see here is the 6th iteration of my page’s design but this time it’s the first time that it’s totally dynamic (PHP) using WordPress as a blog as well as the CMS for e.g. downloads.
I develop all my programs with Borland’s Delphi (now maintained by CodeGear) and for graphics output I use OpenGL, and all demos/applications and games with physics use the free Newton Game Dynamics engine.

I’m Sascha Willems and as of the time I’m writting this I’m 26 years old. Living in a rather small town in southern germany (Saarland) I’ve been interested in programming my own games since I got my Commodore 64 at the age of 8, so instead of just playing games like all my friends I started to create some simple games using it’s built-in BASIC language. I then ventured on to the Amiga 500 before some years later I got my first PC where I started to do more serious developement. I started off with QuickBASIC and did some small games there before I saw an add for the (compared to today) cheap Turbo Pascal 7.0 which not only was a great IDE with a fast OOP-language but also came with a printed manual (3 books at all). So I just spent the 150 marks for it and since then never really left the Pascal programming language except for doing some minor stuff with other languages aside.

After creating a lot of different projects with pascal, mostly games which I sadly lost due to two dead hard-disk in a row and a bad backup-medium (you couldn’t buy CD-burners back then), I was shown a copy of Borland’s first version of Delphi (which was 16-Bit only back then) and quickly switched over to it in order to port my games to windows (actually I tried the awful “Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.0″ before there was a Delphi) and so my first game for Windows was a bomberman inspired game which I kinda honored with Napalm Bomber 3D. So since the first release of Delphi I never switched to a different IDE and as of now I’m using the most recent free version (the Turbo’s from CodeGear), and although Delphi isn’t progressing as much as other languages it’s still a solid IDE combined with a great and fast language so for a hobbyist it’s still a good choice.
Most of my projects are 3D-related (games, applications and tools) and for this I use the Open Graphics Library (known as OpenGL) and I know a lot of stuff concerning this topic like advanced 3D maths (which is a must as I also do realtime physics, see for example the Newton Playground I created), shaders (both high-level via GLSL and low-level via the ARB-programs) and different shadowing techniques (stencil volumes, shadowmaps).

But Delphi is not the only programming language I’m capable off, I also know C, C++, C#, even some Assembler and at school I also learned coding for the Simatic automation systems of Siemens using Siemens S5.

And as I don’t only do the programming stuff for my projects but also all (or most) of the art like 3D-models, textures, user-interfaces and so on I also know who to use some of the widely-adopted DCC tools like Adobe’s Photoshop, Autodesk’s 3D Studio MAX, Caligari’s gameSpace and so on.

If you want to read up on my development work on Projekt “W”, you can pick your free digital copy of the first issue of the Pascal Gamer Magazine, including a detailled interview with me, shots of the game and a review of it.

All the stuff I release on my homepage ist free (games, sources, tools, etc.) and it’s just my hobby. But if any off my stuff was useful to you, feel free to donate.

If you have any questions regarding my projects or problem getting them running, feel free to contact me :