Essential Mathematics For Aspiring Game Developers 

Great Video. Well I guess basic knowledge of Physics like Motion and Optics will also help.

This is the best video, I really wanted something like that, thanks

thanks a lot!

I recently begin watching your videos and I really like how clearly explain the concepts. Here will help us some knowledge of linear movement, but the idea is very clear... thanks

(opinion, by someone who pass by to time to time) I've heard this expression (don't remember when, but was said by one of Joe Rogan's guest) "...people tend to have something called the learning curse..." which means that people usually tent to avoid information because they believe everyone knows that kind of information. First of all I find this video amazing to all the people who want to dive into math for game programming. But by watching your youtube feed some of the titles seem kinda alienating or the content is way too specific. Some comments for sure will have excellent content for beginners, but we are all here because it's one of yours. Anyway I really like the video and it will be nice to see similar content like this one in other areas.

Optics is also necessary.

Javid should add this to the video description now that youtube can create video margins.

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That joke was a sin().

@@sheepuff5999 I wave goodbye to you....

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a slight tangent, but that was almost acute joke

don't try angle jokes

He's gonna be all jacked next flick.

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Yes, those hundreds of BEGINNER tutorials then they stop uploading what to do next

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Consider that this is "simplifief" math! If he had to go trough all the demonstrations he would've bored the spectators.

These topics are not even that hard

That's constructive...

Make your words my words dude! Thanks so much javidx9!

Thanks for sharing, I'm gonna read this book.

I had a professor recommend me _Game Coding Complete_ by Mike McShaffry. I highly recommend that if you are at an intermediate or above level of programming.

Sorry to necro this but are the explanations complete? Like are there proofs for every procedure presented, for example, inversing a tangent function out of nowhere?

@@daniboy2619 The book is intended to give you understanding on what things are (e.g. quaternions, vectors, matrices, etc), how they work, what things mean, etc. It has good explanations on how things relate to other things (e.g. quaternions to matrices) and so on. It's not a _pure maths_ text book; it's a text book about math, but _focused_ on and aimed at game development, so you must understand that maths here are a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.

it's a great book, but the grassman stuff towards the end gets pretty hefty

its avaliable now

why?

Hey thanks Isaac!

For what?

@@andso7068 it's good to not forget Maths

He is 47,so it's not surprising

@@Tech.Library It doesn't mean that everyone over a certain age forgets mathematics or physics, or whatever.

me too! I exempted all my math in college, so I haven't actually studied this since the late 80's!

Same bro

Same. Math is more understandable and enjoyable if they could connect it to a game. Would've love math fr

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​@@Untoldanimationsmore like L education system

@@JungoFunko if you have access to the internet you can’t blame your education system

It's more like middle school.

that's not high school maths

@@antongerasin3871 ?? a lot of this is not taught in middle school and if it is its probably in brief..

Thanks, but don't be discouraged - everyone has their own way of putting a spin on things, when my stuff doesn't click with viewers, chances are someone else's stuff will, it's always good to have a range to choose from as people have different ways of absorbing information.

@@javidx9 You're a legend.

Go for it, because the level at which you 'can' teach will appeal to people who absorb information in a different way; people function best under differing methods from others and that's why you find you'll click with some teachers but not with others (just like college or school math). I started a math channel in another account a few years ago and did only one video ( like you I hesitate to start it up (again) ). It was such a simple video but I still got people thanking me for clarifying things for them and helping them through tests. If you bring your own experience of how you solved problems to your audience it will help other people who similar obstacles.

Glad it helped buddy! Keep practicing and it does click... eventually 😃

Cheers! Much appreciated Mikey!

Thanks Chris, will do!

Poetic justice it's called.

it is true, but what you got wrong here is the definition of "make games" I'd argue that only a *gamer* would expect not doing math if your aim was to make or build them, then it's incredibly shallow to expect you can do it just by fantasizing great worlds and characters, swords, spells and events. there is a great deal of technicality involved, from understanding geometry and trigonometry, to statistics and linear algebra, and further down to computation issues like data structures, memory management, randomization and encryption, file systems, design patterns, APIs, algorithms, and after all said and done, you still need to be tactful, appreciative of human cognitive and emotional psychology, computer usage practices and user experience in general, general arts and architecture, humanistic design, storytelling, and finally game design. so I'd argue that whoever thinks like that is not an aspiring gamedev, but an uninspired lazybag. and this is why it seems to be contradictory, when in fact it was a fallacy and severe underestimation from the get go. nobody ever said that everybody should make games, and making them was never EASY to begin with. to play them, sure. but if you can't keep all of this inside your head and close to your heart, maybe there are other jobs out there that you might find more suitable.

@@milanstevic8424 Okay I was with you until you said encryption. Why would you ever need that as a game dev? I mean if you're working for a large studio and can't afford to have source leaks, sure, but your company will probably hire security experts for that.

@@magdiel6709 it sounds wrong nowadays, but encryption is not exclusively for security. it has everything to do with data encoding, even wikipedia says "encryption is the process of encoding information" but modern usage makes it appear exclusively in cryptographic context. in fact, you can almost consider this a typo and read it simply as 'encoding'. regardless of how you use it, the mathematical concepts behind it are unavoidable. in its most basic format encryption is just a substitution. therefore even JSON is encryption. but one may go a step ahead: JPEG is an encryption just as well (with more merits). it's just that these formats don't do much in terms of data obfuscation to any potential decoder. however try to read it as a human and it becomes painfully obvious that your sister's wedding picture is written in a cryptographic manner. not knowing how data compression works, not knowing how to save game state, not knowing binary trees, or checksums, or CRCs, regardless of whether you need them or not, is equivalent to not knowing binary values themselves. such underappreciation leads to poor decision and poor performance. and there is a reason I have mentioned encryption right next to randomization and file systems, there is a huge deal of overlap. saving game states in an efficient manner, as well as organizing memory accordingly, to minimize heap access frequency and maximize throughput, always assumes encoding and some form of data encryption, and is paramount for game programming.

@@milanstevic8424 as a career changer that came to web development from Immunology, I can say that channels like this one and comments like yours brought me to that road and I'm absolutely happy with it. Please, write more of your thoughts - they are beautiful!

Great thinking! Will definitely be needing this when working with Unity.

Thanks Tom, we're doing just fine, but crazy times indeed. Stay well!

Maths is absolutely "use it or lose it"... its frightening when I think back to doing maths quite competently at degree level, and now struggle to differentiate a polynomial XD