This is really neat! It's not very frequent that you see this new of a project running commercial games out of the gate.
Chinese universities are helping some of the most gifted students I've seen in years get sunlight here in the West. I can't tell you how many amazing repos I've found that were by students of Chinese universities that come out swinging with impressive projects. I wish this was more a trend in the States, and I have to wonder why it isn't. Possibly because people who speak English fluently are flooded with blog posts and internet forum comments browbeating them into avoiding difficult things?
I know the dev and he isn't actually a student, his GitHub profile was just not updated.
Not to say that there aren't many university students interested in challenging topics like emulator development - I am one myself and know several other students in the emudev scene.
Anyway, university doesn't play a big role for most people, you don't learn many relevant things regarding that there anyway (other than bare essentials).
You learn by doing. Just need to be curious enough to motivate you. That's true for most programming topics, not just emudev.
It could be the law of large numbers too. A large, wealthy society may have a relatively small range of percentage of gifted individuals. Three times as many people: three times as many as gifted people churning out amazing work.
Chinese universities are helping some of the most gifted students I've seen in years get sunlight here in the West. I can't tell you how many amazing repos I've found that were by students of Chinese universities that come out swinging with impressive projects. I wish this was more a trend in the States, and I have to wonder why it isn't. Possibly because people who speak English fluently are flooded with blog posts and internet forum comments browbeating them into avoiding difficult things?