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I have no delusions of having enough time to ever follow through all of these videos, but it's still an idea that appeals to me. Something I'm curious about though: If I wanted to follow along on a Mac instead of Windows, how different of a process am I looking at?
Wow this is crazy; I'm surprised its still going on after all this time. Doesn't seem healthy imo to stick just one project for so long without significant ROI. But yes, commendable indeed, and I hope people got significant value out of it, for his sake.
I have no delusions of having enough time to ever follow through all of these videos, but it's still an idea that appeals to me. Something I'm curious about though: If I wanted to follow along on a Mac instead of Windows, how different of a process am I looking at?
A comment thread from a couple years ago that resonated with me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11087399 I watched about a dozen Handmade Hero episodes, and I was a bit annoyed that every session resulted in a random hunt to fix a bunch of bugs because there was not sufficient abstraction. It wouldn't be so bad if the abstractions were upcoming, but Casey seems to have an aversion to abstraction and I stopped w…
You would likely still encounter bugs while building the abstractions to not have bugs. It might be neat if you could pick out a particular example and show how your approach would have avoided the problem or be quicker though.
This is a brilliant gimmick for promotion, catch the intersection of gamers interested in game design.
You cant fake this- this is heart, soul and spouse sacrificed to teach the world how to make games. I guess if you cant feel that passion for something -it must be kind of scary. I can not throw a basketball into the hoop - and if it would save my life. Now i could downplay all the NBA players, calling it a "nice hobby", a gimick to sell shoes. Or just admit with a nod of acknowledgment- that i will never be this goo…
If you want to put a bit of time in everything shown is easily attainable and that’s the point. None of this is cutting edge, it’s basic making games stuff without libraries and a fairly modest goal in terms of the actual game.
A comment thread from a couple years ago that resonated with me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11087399 I watched about a dozen Handmade Hero episodes, and I was a bit annoyed that every session resulted in a random hunt to fix a bunch of bugs because there was not sufficient abstraction. It wouldn't be so bad if the abstractions were upcoming, but Casey seems to have an aversion to abstraction and I stopped w…
And this is especially true in games because you need to get all abstractions right otherwise the game will be limited and/or not performant enough.
In many other programming fields you don't get punished for adding a few abstractions that are not strictly necessary, so usually other programmers are used to abstracting things away fairly early (eg in OOP: properties vs public variables, ...) because they're free as long as you don't overuse them.
Also you should keep in mind that the stream is educational so Casey sometimes takes the scenic route before getting to the point, and he's both implementing the engine and designing it, so sometimes he doesn't know yet what he wants exactly.
A comment thread from a couple years ago that resonated with me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11087399 I watched about a dozen Handmade Hero episodes, and I was a bit annoyed that every session resulted in a random hunt to fix a bunch of bugs because there was not sufficient abstraction. It wouldn't be so bad if the abstractions were upcoming, but Casey seems to have an aversion to abstraction and I stopped w…
I actually find it amazing that sometimes 400 hours of programming and 2 years later he goes back to code written in the first few weeks and is fairly easily able to modify it to work with a new system that's just been implemented.
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This is a brilliant gimmick for promotion, catch the intersection of gamers interested in game design.
You cant fake this- this is heart, soul and spouse sacrificed to teach the world how to make games. I guess if you cant feel that passion for something -it must be kind of scary. I can not throw a basketball into the hoop - and if it would save my life. Now i could downplay all the NBA players, calling it a "nice hobby", a gimick to sell shoes. Or just admit with a nod of acknowledgment- that i will never be this goo…
Spouse? What happened?
Wow this is crazy; I'm surprised its still going on after all this time. Doesn't seem healthy imo to stick just one project for so long without significant ROI. But yes, commendable indeed, and I hope people got significant value out of it, for his sake.
I don't think he's in it for the money. I think that he, and many game developers of a similar vintage, are frustrated with the direction that modern software has taken. It's slow, getting slower, and often doesn't work correctly. I think this is his way of expressing that frustration, by teaching how the machine you're programming ACTUALLY WORKS. I for one have gotten more out of Handmade Hero than any other single source of learning in my life.
A comment thread from a couple years ago that resonated with me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11087399 I watched about a dozen Handmade Hero episodes, and I was a bit annoyed that every session resulted in a random hunt to fix a bunch of bugs because there was not sufficient abstraction. It wouldn't be so bad if the abstractions were upcoming, but Casey seems to have an aversion to abstraction and I stopped w…