About

Gökhan has been playing games for over 40 years — across every major platform era, every genre, every generation of hardware. He doesn't just play them. He dissects them. Within seconds of watching a game run, he can tell you whether it's good, generic, or broken — and exactly why.

That instinct is now Maniacs Engine++'s built-in quality filter.

Before Maniacs Engine++, Gökhan spent 25+ years building production-grade software systems. He owns Maniacs Engine++'s engine architecture, ECS implementation, and everything that runs inside SpatialForge.

The people who build the hardest things tend to be the people who understand them the deepest. Gökhan has spent four decades understanding games.

Bahar has spent 10+ years at the intersection of growth, product management, and UX design — building the systems that get products from zero to users who actually stay.

She's a two-time co-founder. WiseUp and defaro, both B2B EdTech, both backed. MSc in Design, Technology & Society from Özyeğin University.

Bahar is a Women in Games Ambassador, one of 2,600 ambassadors across 88 countries. The role isn't cosmetic. It connects Maniacs Engine++'s core thesis directly to the equity gap in game development: the people most likely to bring underrepresented perspectives to games are disproportionately hit by infrastructure failure. Maniacs Engine++ removes the infrastructure problem. That's the connection.