Category: Game Dev’s Quest

Taylor and Rett set out to find the skills to create and program their own video games all while trying to embody the phrase, “if we can do it, you can too”

GAME DEV’S QUEST e98: COOL COMPOSURE

Rett is back! Taylor shares how trying this week has been on his personal life. And both of them are working on a project together. They share what little they can. Then Rett talks about composing video game music and time he’s spent studying it.

Check out 8-Bit Music Theory on Youtube.

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e97: STRATEGERIZING

This week, it’s just Taylor again. He talks about his overall experience interviewing for a Software Developer position and gives some recommendations if you are in a similar position. Then he introduces a new segment: Design Pattern of the Week! This week’s design pattern is the Strategy Pattern.

Resources used:
Head First Design Patterns
Theoritical Video
Practical Video
Game Programming Patterns

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e96: CES-POOL

This week, we talk about the Unity-Improbably feud, Taylor catching a feral cat, Taylor’s software dev phone interview, and Rett’s experience at CES 2019.

Watch the Craft Computing CES vlog
Free ASP.NET Core book
medium – blogsite

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e95: INTERVIEW PREP

This week, Taylor prepares for a programming job interview. He answers mostly object oriented and C# questions, with a few SQL and general programming questions. Definitely spend some time practicing for your interviews and feel free to use some of these questions and answers yourself to help you prepare. Here are the resources he used:

Lynda.com C# interview preparation course
50 C# interview questions
50 SQL interview questions
7 general programming questions

If you have any questions, clarifications on answers given, or recommendations on how to prepare for a programming job interview, please join the discord and let us know!

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e94: CARE-ACTOR DESIGN

This week, we discuss some new VR Tech, specifically the Pimax 5k (reviewed on Craft Computing here), and computer hardware because Rett is going to CES next week! Then we deep dive into things to consider when developing a game character. We read this article which inspired us to think about what makes a character stand out. Let us know your approach when designing a character!

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e93: NEW YEARS PREDICTIONS

Taylor and Rett are fresh off their x-mas celebrations, and wish all their listeners happy holidays. To help tie off the year they make their predictions for gaming, gaming technology, and game dev for 2019.

Do you agree with their judgment? Have predictions of your own? Let us know on twitter!

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e92: BELATED BDAY

It was Rett’s birthday last weekend, and he’s back to tell us about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Taylor is taking a swing at a new job. And fiction is sometimes sexist, who knew! /s

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e91: RETT DEAD REDEMPTION

This week, Rett declares his love of Red Dead Redemption 2. Later, the conversation evolves into how and why AAA and MMOs are worse than indie games. And Taylor continues his journey in web development.

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e90: RETURN OF THAT RETT GUY

Rett returns from his long adventure overseas and Taylor spends the show picking his brain about his time. Rett visited Barcelona, Venice, Florence, and Rome over the course of a month.

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GAME DEV’S QUEST e89: GGGGDQT (Ghost Goats Game Dev’s Cutie)

We are joined this week by special guest host, Ghost Goats Games, popular GDQ streamer/gamedev/voxel artist. We discuss how to land your first development job, Frank’s Kitchen (GGG’s current game project), AAA games vs indie games, and more.

Make sure to stop by the Ghost Goats Games stream on twitch, it’s a good time, and play his games on itch.io!

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