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Awesome interview, thanks! This is easily the best gamedev related podcast. Keep up the great work, Lukasz.

Very good Engine: compact, easy to use. I might use it for my next project.

He's clearly super talented, but there's no way any serious studio would bet their livelihood on a single guy's side project. He should get funding and start to work on the engine full time, with a proper team.

mind. blowing. most programmers are livin' in the cave-age meanwhile the chosen few are meta-programming with elegance in lisp 'n ruby

Playing a game of Call of Cthulhu, or whatever the tabletop rog system, with these guys must be quite a blast! I'm no fan of point an click and the gameplay of the game isn't one that resonates with me, but man, the story telling, the characters, the sound effects; this all gets me hooked on the game. They got it on point.

Watched it all the way through! Really great conversation and game :)

As a South African, these guys are an incredible inspiration to me. Thanks very much for pulling this interview together.

Oh yeah, I remember Mandy covering this back in 2023.

This was so interesting and exciting……….oh wait….that’s not exactly what I meant to say……

Shardpunk is such a great game, thanks for uploading this

Amazing video!

Would you consider inviting Casey Muratori (Computer Enhanced; formerly RAD Game Tools, Thekla) or Jonathan Blow (Thekla games, Witness, Braid, Jai programming language). It would be a great conversation talking with them

Thanks for the interview! Lots of good details and insights from Amir, for technical details, the game dev process, and the business. I can see how important hot reloading would be for ideation, and how Ruby helps with that. I'm used to thinking more on the "compile everything up-front to avoid errors" side of the spectrum, but this was a good pitch for the dynamism of the other side. I wonder how this affects the bug fixing process though? How often a bug comes from state created by now-updated code and you just wash it away, or whether objects changing each others' contents at runtime makes detection or reproduction tricky?

"Politics" very much matter in community building. I assume he is referring to the Code of Conduct, anything else would get removed as out of scope. A CoC is like a rule of law and making basic value statements (no discrimination, be nice) known is better that arbitrarily banning people. Godot has a nice and productive community, devs and minorities don't have to put up with harassment, you can feel safe doing business with them. Meanwhile nimlang has no CoC, the same mostly white men who would feel belittled by one or just don't care (intended subtext: it's not about you) run a semi-toxic community. Turns out the lead dev believes in all sorts of conspiracy theories and promotes 'violence for Jesus' to 'protect the children' from LGBQT world domination, main contributors have quit, you can imagine the future of the project. Godot has done everything right.

Thank your for this interview. It was enlightening

You both know what you are talking about. Good. I like the vtable discussion especially. Atm. i am unfamiliar with Flax, but not for long..

i tried flax when unity made that mistake and i think the engine is good but two days trying was enough for me to understand that it was not good enough for me 😅specially for mobile dev... so i tried another game engine :) anyways, is a good project and i have high hopes on it

Never heard of the game and didn't see anything when i scrubbed the tracking besides 2 people talking. Wish there were images from the game or some video clips of it being played. So I leave with no idea what it's about but at least kept my hour from being wasted hoping to see what wasn't anywhere in this long extended interview.

i really like its fast

Hm, insightful technique with roughness from R channel of base color. Is there any papers on it? Thanks for the talk 🙏

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

omg only 40 peope for such a stunning game 😮

oh cool.

Lovely interview and interesting subject matter. I'll check out the full thing 👍.

Just like Ted, getting introduced to Handmade Hero and Casey was a big eye opener for me as a professional programmer. I have no problems admitting I'm guilty of working more on my engine than I am on games, but for now that is also fine, as that is what I enjoy, and is what is keeping me from depression from working a web dev day job :D I have pretty clear ideas of what my game will be though, but engine dev is just so fun haha

Nice to see others doing the crazy thing of developing their own game engine.

Great to see people making these arguments. I've written many engines and I'm on the eighth generation of my own engine now. For me the engine creation is part of the creative process.

Godot Engine and Bevy Engine are literal game changers

Hi there! Nice to find this video suggested by algorithm. I like the guest since I am subscribed to Ted's channel and I agree with his philosophy regarding creating your own game engine. It is a tough deal, but in the end of the day, you do not rely on the company that it makes it. It is a strong point that overweight downside like "you need to maintain it". Duh, for me, it is advantage, since it is the way to learn. Speaking of learning, he has also a great video about learning in the hard way, which is the best one for me on Ted's channel. Your channel is new for me, I will subscribe. Cheers!

subbed. fantastic video.

Two sexy guys talk tech, me like.

I might've gone a bit too crazy with the exposure of the camera here.. but I blame the constantly changing sun!

I can relate with not wanting to fight the engine. I know that fighting the engine is actually a super rare thing to happen, and that even when I do there will always be a way around it to do what I want, but it's like I have OCD for this one small thing. I can't stand it at all. Also, I hate OOP as well. Not because I have any real criticism of it, the `class` keyword just confuses me because I am very dumb.

It's a really fun game. I was playing it the other weekend :-)

Data Oriented Design or bust

Oh my goodness. Thank you/

Respect to the guy, but he looks very young, like he is still in his twenties. I always thought that a mature engine has to be made by mature developers with lots of experience and formal education. You are just too young for that in your twenties, except you started at a baby age and your life is basically occupied by nothing else than game-engine related things.

0:52 GAAAH!!! Automatic storage is what happens on the STACK not the heap. Bad teacher. No apple for you.

An engineers approach to art: simulate real life I am trying to escape real life by playing games, oh well

Thank you!

flax looks good i downloaded and played with it. But learning content for flax is almost zero and being a beginner thats what stopping me to start with flax.

Thank you, flax really looks like a serious engine

I think Flax is the best for 3d! Unreal is just too heavy for basic games and it already takes 15Gb just for the lib without any assets and the editor is so laggy its just pain using it. Unity is good for 2d but the way it spam saves the things u do eats my memory and it doesn't provide any engine runtime access also the plans are just bad paying $1800 for abonnement that isn't permanent is just wrong. I started with Unity and still use it for 2D I wanted to make 3D game and I had issues with the runtime and couldn't fixed I even started reverse engineering it got some success but wasn't worthy. About Godot its the worst trash the source is a mess the community is terrible and aggressive and the gdscript is useless. I started searching for alternative engine found Stride It was good but the C# or whatever didn't handle the performance quality as I expected after some time I saw Flax in someone's description and I decided to try it and loved it. I prefer flax because its not mess of random codes like other engines and the editor is just lovely to use and it compiles for seconds.

flax 🔝

Nice 🌹

I think the "politics" in the Godot documentation was probably just OOP 🤣

A really great talk. Finding the right information is one of the hardest things usually.

Very motivating

Great video, I was looking for stories like this!

Good job guys I appreciated this