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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?
Not too bad, Casey does a good job of separating the platform code from his game code. Also he's using emacs.
Not anymore.
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…
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.
Maybe the ROI is the feedback and such from the community that has popped up around the game? That, and the $15.00 per copy to get access to the source code as the series goes on. But I'd be willing to bet that the feedback and community is the driving thing for this guy.
This is a really good series by an experienced game developer that's basically free (or at least the Zed Shaw model of pay to download but free to view).
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…
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…
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…
With the same restrictions of course - relatively little dynamic memory allocation, and hitting frame rate consistently on the lowest supported platform.
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.
> Doesn't seem healthy imo to stick just one project for so long without significant ROI. Maybe the ROI is the feedback and such from the community that has popped up around the game? That, and the $15.00 per copy to get access to the source code as the series goes on. But I'd be willing to bet that the feedback and community is the driving thing for this guy.
This is a brilliant gimmick for promotion, catch the intersection of gamers interested in game design.
Casey is really well known in the gaming community - https://mollyrocket.com/casey/about.html Through Handmade Con, he's also interviewed many other creators like Jonathan Blow and Edmund Mcmillen. He also contributed to Blow's recent game, The Witness (specifically the movement system and the world editor).
This is a really good series by an experienced game developer that's basically free (or at least the Zed Shaw model of pay to download but free to view).