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02:27 - Andrea Magnorsky Introduction
- GitHub
- Blog
- Andrea Magnorsky: The Tools that Shape Us
- BatCat Games
- @batcatgames
- Blog
- @roundcrisis (Andrea’s Game-Related Twitter Account)
02:56 - “What Game Developers Know That Business Devs Can Benefit From”
- Going From Enterprise => Professional Game Dev
- Andrew O’Connor, co-founder of BatCat Games
- XSplit (Xbox Comparison)
08:28 - Curiosity and Motivation
09:10 - Is game development more approachable than in the past?
- Unity Game Engine
- The Unreal Engine
- MonoGame
- Totality Engine
10:12 - Learning New Skills and Coding Practices to Write Games
- Unlearning to Be Clean
- Game Loop
- Levels of Code:
- Low-Level Code
- Intermediate Layer
- Scripts and Game Play
15:45 - Performance and Iterations
- Andrea Magnorsky: The Tools that Shape Us
- Testing
- Iteration Speed
- “Benevolent Dictator + You”
20:45 - Making Games Inviting
- FUN
23:11 - Techniques to Cope with State
24:16 - Releasing and Deadlines (Business Issues Between Developers and Management)
28:30 - Testing
- Property Testing
- FsCheck
30:45 - Writing Aspects of Games (Stories, Artwork, etc.)
32:22 - Why F#?
- Type Providers
- Tutorial: Creating a Type Provider (F#)
- Xamarin Studio
38:44 - Pair Programming or Agile Techniques in Game Dev?
- “Stupid Courage/Bravery”
42:22 - Teaching Game Development (Game Jams)
- Global Game Jam
- Indie Game Jams
- Game Jams on itch.io
44:39 - Onikira: Demon Killer
- Onikara - Demon Killer on Steam
- Hardware
- DmC: Devil May Cry
Picks
Carina C. Zona: Schemas for the Real World (Avdi)
Maryville, Tennessee (Avdi)
Monodraw (Jessica)
Elizabeth Naramore: Uncomfortable (Jessica)
ambient_spec (Coraline)
Cosmic Encounter (Coraline)
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Chuck)
Mastery by Robert Greene (Chuck)
Dixit (Andrea)
Michael Bernstein: Know Your Types (Andrea)
Philip Potter: Generative testing with clojure.test.check (Andrea)
Special Guest: Andrea Magnorsky.
