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You're hurting my elbow(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 15y ago
I just put my "place" on top of my todo list, or leave the editor up there.
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by agavin 15y ago
If you are truly banging your head against a wall getting some distance can help. I'm just a stubborn mofo and can't relax if I have series ongoing bugs. They haunt and torture me -- so I prefer to terminate them before moving on to somethi
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by agavin 15y ago
There are no magic bullets here. Becoming a great programmer takes a LOT of time and effort. It's fun and rewarding, but not exactly easy. :-)
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by agavin 15y ago
And a part 5: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/09/11/video-game-progr...
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Secrets of the Masters - An Algorithm for Learning to Program(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
71 points by agavin 15y ago|10 comments
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Crash Bandicoot 15th Anniversary Memories(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
2 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 15y ago
I posted a comment complaining about his intellectual property theft (of my work) and he deletes it. LOL
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by agavin 15y ago
Uh yeah. This is the original author, and Tech Talks shouldn't be posting my entire copyrighted text (even if I give it away -- which I do) without permission. I have no problem if someone does a little introduction or comment, and then a c
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by agavin 15y ago
and a part 3: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2941688 and a part 4: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2950413
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So you want to be a video game programmer?(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
4 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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A Video Game Programmer Origin Story(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
14 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 15y ago
I posted a part 2 -- except I actually made it a prequel -- but it's new nonetheless. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2937426
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So you want to be a video game programmer? - Reasons Why(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
4 points by agavin 15y ago|1 comments
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by agavin 15y ago
Why? I'm very NOT large studio oriented. I don't think anything stated in my post (which is just part of a larger series I'm writing) is even about studio size. In this particular post I'm just broadly breaking down some of the sub-speciali
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by agavin 15y ago
It's all of the above. As lead you have to fill in, to do what no one else wants to do, to keep try of all the things that need to be done in the say 48 hours to the next deadline and sort them by priority. But you often have to work just a
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by agavin 15y ago
All the studios that consistently turn out brilliant games: Naughty Dog, Valve, Epic, Blizzard and many many others are really well run. Working there might often be brutal because of how hard the job is and pressure, but they know the proc
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by agavin 15y ago
I'd have to content that my own games (Crash + Jak) are far far less buggy than the typical web or desktop application. We had a VERY low tolerance for bugs. I NEVER EVER shipped with a known crash bug (there were some I didn't know about o
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by agavin 15y ago
Physics, collision, animation, and certain types of compression also use a lot of math. I also found that just plain gameplay programming in 3D games required a pretty decent command of matrix math and analytic trig.
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So you want to be a video game programmer? - The Specs(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
117 points by agavin 15y ago|79 comments
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Eyeborg – Resistance is Futile(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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Creaky Old 20 Questions on Crash Bandicoot(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
1 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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Save the Cat - To Formula or Not to Formula?(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
2 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 15y ago
Scrivener blows the pants off of monolithic WPs like Word for large structured writing (books or longer articles). I have a pretty detailed analysis on my blog as to why: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/25/scrivener/
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Crash Bandicoot - More Development Secrets(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
7 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 15y ago
For those of you who can't get enough GOT CGI, the SFX company released yet another 3 minute before and after video: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/08/05/more-game-of-thr... Cool stuff.
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Game of Thrones - Even More CGI - The action shots(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
2 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments
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by agavin 15y ago
The titles were pretty amazing, simultaneously being cool and helping to give new viewers some sense of the layout of the world. Like a 3D jacket map.
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Game of Thrones CGI(all-things-andy-gavin.com)
210 points by agavin 15y ago|67 comments
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El Bulli, 'world's best restaurant' serves its final 49-course supper(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by agavin 15y ago|0 comments

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