{"id":1004,"date":"2011-06-22T23:16:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T06:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2015-02-06T15:47:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T22:47:43","slug":"how-to-program-independent-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2011\/06\/how-to-program-independent-games\/","title":{"rendered":"How to program independent games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1, 2011, I was invited by UC Berkeley's Computer Science Undergraduate Association to come give a speech. This was pretty interesting because that's where I went to school, and I was once a member of the CSUA. I approached it this way: if I were going back to speak to my undergraduate self, what would I say to help him be most effective at making video games, programming-wise?<\/p>\n<p>The talk's about 38 minutes long, with about 40 minutes of Q&amp;A afterward. Here's a slideshow:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"display: block; overflow: hidden; width: 400px; padding-top: 4px; padding-bottom: 2px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;\">\n<!-- YouTube Embed v4.3.4 -->\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JjDsP5n2kSM\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"How to program independent games\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"How to program independent games\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2011-06-22T23:16:32-07:00\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/JjDsP5n2kSM\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JjDsP5n2kSM\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"315\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"560\" \/>\n\t<iframe style=\"border: 0;\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JjDsP5n2kSM?amp;modestbranding=1&amp;fs=0&amp;rel=0&amp;wmode=opaque\" ><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<!-- End of YouTube Embed code. Generated in 0.00091 seconds -->\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If the above embedded player doesn't work for you, or you prefer to download the files directly, here they are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/number-none.com\/blow\/slides\/CSUA%20talk.mp3\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/number-none.com\/blow\/slides\/CSUA%20talk.mp3', 'audio track']);\" >audio track<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/number-none.com\/blow\/slides\/CSUA%20talk.ppt\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','download','http:\/\/number-none.com\/blow\/slides\/CSUA%20talk.ppt']);\" >slides (ppt format)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 1, 2011, I was invited by UC Berkeley&#8217;s Computer Science Undergraduate Association to come give a speech. This was pretty interesting because that&#8217;s where I went to school, and I was once a member of the CSUA. I approached it this way: if I were going back to \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2011\/06\/how-to-program-independent-games\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}