Fazlı Özlemiş

Game Engine Developer · Founder · 16 years old

Fazlı Özlemiş
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About

I started programming when I was 10 or 11. My first project was a platform called Destan built with PHP, and by 13 or 14 I made a map editor and a search engine. I spent the next few years building projects like that until I turned 16. I started Conqueror at 15. At 16 I rewrote the search engine I made as a kid. During that period I became Chairman of the Board at Vertex and left to found TurcoLabs. I was also congratulated by the Chief of Staff of Lucky Robots, a venture backed startup.

At 16, I consider myself the youngest and essentially the best game engine developer out there. I believe my game engine will eventually surpass the big ones, and right now I think it is easily in the top 5.

Besides that, I started working on a custom graphics API called Reyes and a physics engine called Phaseic for the engine.

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Projects

Game engine I've been building since I was 15. Cross-platform, supports multiple physics and graphics backends. Still a lot of work to do but it's getting there.

Conqueror's Engine editor - Skyline Run sample
Conqueror's Engine editor - Skyline Run sample scene

Upcoming

  • ReyesA modern low-level, cross-platform graphics API.In development · coming in the next few months
  • PhaseicA real-time physics engine.In development · coming in the next few months
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Companies

  1. Jul 2026 – Present
    TurcoLabsOngoing
    Founder & CEO

    Started in July 2026. Conqueror's Engine is our main project.

    turcolabs.co →
  2. Jan 2026 – Jul 2026
    VertexPast
    Chairman of the Board

    Joined in January 2026, later became Chairman of the Board. Left after a while to do my own thing.

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Certificates

IBM DevOps and Software Engineering Professional CertificateIBMIssued Sep 2026Credential ID 153a2b33-4905-4ba7-9fbb-c89e210a727fShow credential
Elements of AIUniversity of HelsinkiIssued Sep 2026Credential ID 4hb0tz9zeksShow credential
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Blog

Posts coming soon.

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People I look up to

Richard Stallman
Richard StallmanFSF
Ada Lovelace
Ada LovelaceFirst Programmer
Linus Torvalds
Linus TorvaldsLinux & Git
Guido van Rossum
Guido van RossumPython
Andrew Tanenbaum
Andrew TanenbaumMINIX
Dennis Ritchie
Dennis RitchieC & Unix
James Gosling
James GoslingJava
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Greg Kroah-HartmanLinux Kernel
Steve Wozniak
Steve WozniakApple co-founder
Chris Lattner
Chris LattnerLLVM & Swift
Brendan Eich
Brendan EichJavaScript
Dario Amodei
Dario AmodeiAnthropic
Sam Altman
Sam AltmanOpenAI
Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne StroustrupC++
Terry A. Davis ❤️
Terry A. Davis ❤️TempleOS
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Contact