Story: Video Game Programming From Scratch
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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Why I Don't Know How to Build a Text Adventure Game
As a child, when i was looking at those tex adventures, what i imagined them to be doing under the hood, even though i couldn't conceptualize t ecause i didn't know. In other words, it's not harder to build something from scratch. It's easier. You learn c and i bet how computers execute code. And you just start going, and casey's there to guide you. Casey's trying to build the guidance system he wished he had when he was young - but he never figured out how. He says: "I don't think i'm providing any kind of swammy programming wisdom."
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