John is an American video game designer and programmer that is well known for his independent games Braid and The Witness. He is also working on his own programing language known right now as JAI. John has accumulated a fan base of other game programmers and designers who share his views on coding and game Continue Reading »
Jonathan Blow did a talk about how he manages his psychology when working on long game and software development projects. It is very interesting to hear about these topics from someone in the game development industry. I have always found the mind and psychology interesting. I often time try to examine and understand my own thoughts Continue Reading »
In 2014 Casey Muratori started a live stream series called Handmade Hero. I have been following it for a while and I fully enjoy it. He is developing a professional quality game from scratch using no libraries. In the processs, he wants to teach everyone else how to do the same thing. As of this Continue Reading »
Jonathan Blow, the maker of Braid and The Witness, recently spoke at the Reboot Develop conference. The topic of his talk was about making game programming less terrible. He started off by describing what is wrong with the current world of software. He used Adobe Photoshop as the examples by showing how slow it was Continue Reading »
Here is a collection of all the HandmadeCon 2016 videos I could find. Update 9-25-2017: Casey Muratori has released official videos from the event so I have updated the list here. Compression Compression Followup Asset Systems and Scalability Technical Direction at Blizzard Large-scale Systems Architecture Emily Scherb: Anatomy and Health for Programmers History of Texture Continue Reading »
