Carlo Iovino is a computer programmer and video gamer since the age of 14, who has a degree in computer science and has been worked as a professional programmer since 1996. They started to create game mods in 2015. They started their “career” as a “modder” by reverse-engineering a popular software in the sim-racing world called SimHub. Their very first mod was a co-driver for GTA5. Doing that they learned a lot about driving simulators, the ways they provide telemetry and how to use the telemetric data. Combining their experience as a professional programmer with the passion for rally and sim racing, they developed three hardware devices based on Arduino and Nextion displays, writing their firmware and drivers and they’ve sold them between 2017 and 2018. In 2017 they started to work on a new co-driver engine called Navigator. They developed Navigator as a SimHub Plugin. In 2018 they started to work on RBRPro, a “frontend” for RBR. Born as a simple game launcher, RBRPro has gone much beyond the original purpose, becoming an innovative way to play this immortal rally game, with its own server, teams and championships. Since the first releases, RBRPro captured the attention of the russian rally driver Nikolay Gryazin, who became a project patron, supporting it with donations and developing special contents. Besides the frontend development they also worked at the improvement of stages textures and cars liveries and developed new engine sounds by using the FMOD studio. In 2020 they added the support for add-ons to the Manager and started to convert the Navigator plugin into an add-on for RBRPro.Today RBRPro is a popular mod known in 42+ countries which counts on 3800 registered users and going towards 3000 followers on Facebook. The donations they receive are allowing them and their collaborators to develop the project day after day.
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