An interview with Jake Birkett on YouTube

[Jackdaw]

[RemiD]

i don't like these types of games, but i respect the work and the perseverance. 👏🙂

[Steve Elliott]

Good to see a coder from the BlitzBASIC.com days still going.

[RemiD]

listen at 1h06m40s

Jake runs (build) the game with blitzmax and the guy is surprised how little time it takes compared to unity.

that's why we use the term 'blitz' 😎🔥🚀

[Steve Elliott]

Yeah he laughed at a computer language also being the engine - rather than a language and bloated engine. But thought hours compiling was acceptable. 

[Jackdaw]

Yeah he laughed at a computer language also being the engine - rather than a language and bloated engine. But thought hours compiling was acceptable. 

That had me in stitches. Guess he's never heard the saying that time is money.


I'm surprised that Grey Alien isn't already a member here yet.

[Naughty Alien]

..those match3 games and what not, are not my cup of tea, but im happy to see him making living out of it since obviously, there is a substantial audience for such games..

..as for that guy wondering about Unity compilation time, it just shows direction of whole game development or majority of it..no more fine tuning or things such as fast inverse square root (evil hack), and so on. All is packed, stacked, redacted..result? Well..ocean of crap games painted with AAA brush..

[Jackdaw]

..as for that guy wondering about Unity compilation time, it just shows direction of whole game development or majority of it..no more fine tuning or things such as fast inverse square root (evil hack), and so on. All is packed, stacked, redacted..result? Well..ocean of crap games painted with AAA brush..

If those types of people that have only ever used tools such as Unity or Godot start making claims that they are games programmers. I would tell them when you can make a simple guessing game in C, then you can come back to me and make that claim. Using a script language of a unified game engine, isn't to my eyes real games programming. Even users of the Unreal Engine prior to UE 4 had to use UE's own built in script language. And by the sounds of it, they could be switching from C++ back to their own custom scripting language.

[RemiD]

those types of people that have only ever used tools such as Unity or Godot start making claims that they are games programmers

i would no be so harsh, what matters is the finished game / app.
some people are 'experts' in programming and have not finished any good game / app...

i stick with blitzbasic, to make little games / apps, fast ! 🔥🚀