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Is notch a HN member?
he just said on the stream he "likes HN but doesn't hang out on HN because there's too many nerds"
I hope Notch-senpai will notice us....
Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart
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Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart
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#123Each time there's a Ludum Dare or someone prolific livestreams themselves coding (usually Notch) I get all excited and want to do the same but I can never find a website or platform which really caters to coders. Am I alone in this? Is there somewhere? Is there actually any demand for this? Either way, I've created a quick landing page to see if anyone would actually be interested in a live streaming site specificall…
There is http://devstream.tv/ which is just a listing of relevant twitch streams.
Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart
#124Btw, this is 2014 and I feel like we would already be able to play a simple game like Doom in the browser, just like the real thing. But no.. --edit-- ...multiplayer with several people, of course.
Here: http://www.quakejs.com/
Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart
#125Btw, this is 2014 and I feel like we would already be able to play a simple game like Doom in the browser, just like the real thing. But no.. --edit-- ...multiplayer with several people, of course.
Try this in the latest Firefox: http://kripken.github.io/boon/inception/ The inner doom game is playable.
Also playable by itself at http://kripken.github.io/boon/boon.html
Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart
#126I'm so impressed watching Notch program in realtime. "Last Minute Christmas Chopping" was an eye opener for me. ( http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview... ). I was totally baffled when he started to draw the ascii character map pixel by pixel in an 48h competition, but the result was usable and actually quite simple. My takeaway is this: Doing something quick and dirty for a first draft and imp…
>Doing something quick and dirty for a first draft and improve it later on often leads to better results in the long run than planing and over-engineering a solution beforehand, because you can start refining details much earlier or throw away bad approaches without investing too much time.
If it's something not too big, sure. Won't work so well if you don't know what to even do because you don't have any idea what the structure of the program's going to be like. I've found planning much more beneficial for myself.
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is this really live? I mean -- hardly see him pause for thought or anything. Interesting to see he just uses plain 'ol Eclipse (Eclipse FTW!).
I've watched Notch code numerous times (mostly on Ludum Dare streams) and he's strongly in the always keeps moving camp of developers. He thinks as he goes and isn't scared to backtrack or rip stuff out when he changes his approach.
I imagine that having a live feed of you working also motivates you to avoid procrastinating.
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I would say that Bob Ross being the running ironic joke of the painting world says a lot more about the painting world than it does about Bob Ross. Every episode I watched contained a man with the calm manner of Mr. Rogers guiding his watchers through the process of creating something, providing them constant reassurance that they possessed the ability to create art and that they weren't making mistakes but merely go…
interesting fact, Bob Ross was a drill sergeant: "I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way anymore." [1] [1] http://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-…
There is a reason the military limits how long a person can be a drill sergeant for. 2 years, iirc, with an option for 1 more. My step father was a drill sergeant.
Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart
#129Notch's Ludum Dare video for Metagun ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV-AFnCkRLY ) was inspiration for a series of scripts I now use for clients and my own entertainment purposes (for some loose definition of "entertainment"). It's a series of shell scripts I use that screencap videos of coding and set them to music (so, for example, rendering a 48-hour coding competition to a 5-minute song, or as I more typically…
Chronolapse can do this on Windows for those looking for an alternative:
https://code.google.com/p/chronolapse/
Re: Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart
#130I'm so impressed watching Notch program in realtime. "Last Minute Christmas Chopping" was an eye opener for me. ( http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview... ). I was totally baffled when he started to draw the ascii character map pixel by pixel in an 48h competition, but the result was usable and actually quite simple. My takeaway is this: Doing something quick and dirty for a first draft and imp…
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