Benjamin Thompson
Benjamin is a designer-programmer and mathematician who loves handcrafted puzzle games and free and open-source software. Benjamin thinks that games, as a medium, have the unique ability to help us exercise our brains in atypical ways, and loves it when they do this. Based in Townsville, Benjamin is working on an unannounced 3D puzzle game about cubes programmed in Zig.
All Your steamcmd.exe Are Belong To Us
TG Lightning Talks @ Queensland Games Festival 2026
Using the Zig build system is easy, but using steamcmd is tedious. Luckly, the Zig build system is capable enough to automate calling steamcmd! We provide a brief overview of the Zig build system, and show how it can be used to both compile a project and push the resulting build to Steam with a single command. Your doctor likes this: research proves it massively reduces your chance of suffering a steamcmd-induced migrane.
Benjamin Thompson
Benjamin is a designer-programmer and mathematician who loves handcrafted puzzle games and free and open-source software. Benjamin thinks that games, as a medium, have the unique ability to help us exercise our brains in atypical ways, and loves it when they do this. Based in Townsville, Benjamin is working on an unannounced 3D puzzle game about cubes programmed in Zig.