Hello, to the future! And now, my contentful first post. These won\u2019t be public for a while, so if you are reading this, it\u2019s because you scrolled back in time.<\/p>\n
A normal person writing a game, here in the year 2015, would get a nice framework & IDE, like Unity, and get to work. I read others\u2019 dev blogs and they say things like, \u201cWow, wasted 3 weeks on a game concept before I decided it wasn\u2019t that interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not me. I fire up Xcode and start typing C++ code talking to OpenGL. Why? Indeed. The shortest answer is, because I like writing code. Also, 3 weeks to me is inconsequential. I\u2019ve been assembling my libraries for close to six months now. And they are not bad.<\/p>\n
Also, I know exactly what the game concept will be, and have 100% confidence in its viability. This is somewhat mitigated\u00a0by the fact that I don\u2019t care if, ultimately, anyone else likes it.<\/p>\n
And also, having not written any video games in 30 years \u2014 literally, a lifetime ago \u2014 I was curious how it\u2019s done. I wanted to truly feel the shaders, the collision testing, the lists of millions of triangles. All that.<\/p>\n
Also, if you\u2019re reading this, it\u2019s because I\u2019ve chosen to make it public. Hello, to the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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