5 Things Every Game Programmer Should Know 

I think you hit the nail on the head - and, that this happens in every field Beginners don't care about fundamentals, they care about showing off, proving something to themselves, or having fun They also don't want to be scared off by jargon - I believe Feynman cracked this part pretty well... Combining the two: simple language + creating the feelings beginners want. I think that's the best way to *earn* the time of the learner. Once you've earned the time, you can tackle the dry but important fundamentals, as they'll be, not dry, but much more interesting to them when they understand the importance This is all just a hypothesis at this point, something I'm striving for in my work

Cheers, I will add them

You fool, away!

There are a few ways to get into graphics. Any way you choose, there's good explanations of the concepts on learnopengl dot com

Yeah, I guess you don't *have* to go back to front... Just conditioned to do that from school I guess

The short answer is joy of coding. I suspect you have a similar feeling with Zig. I'll make a video for the long answer 🤠

What would you like to see? There are some interesting experimental 4D games that mess with time

@@DylanFalconer I'd like to see more realism in video games in regards to physics. For instance, bullet drop, simulated sound (using fluid dynamics), and even an upward acceleration on gas in vehicles (not constant like in real life). I am aware that some games do have these features, but it's not widespread. Come think of it, there aren't a lot of physicists in the industry.

Hey Darth! So true, it can be a rabbit hole sometimes

Yeah, I've gone off doing deep dives that have lasted years at times because I've felt I've needed to level up. I don't regret learning the things I did, but I should've balanced it out and focused on just learning the immediate things I needed.

There's also a challenge of not knowing what you don't know. You'll start running into XY problems where you are asking a specific question about how to do X, but it's the wrong approach to the general problem of Y.

They are provided by default and can be overwritten with other Allocator types if you want - the defaults are arenas Then you just call free_all(context.temp_allocator) at the end of each frame

@@DylanFalconer Thanks, sounds good!

I think it was mostly about fragmented memory allocation. I'm going to make a video about it 🤠

Yeah but I'm going to do it anyway 🤠

Me too brother. One step at a time

@@DylanFalconer Thanks, I'll be working through your pong course. I'm sure I'll learn a good amount