Developer Highlight - Programming

[Munin]

Check out and discuss the most recent development video here.

This week we're bringing back the Developer Highlight series with our Lead Programmer: G2! Creator of pipes, trains, the power system - and more.

He discusses challenges, his day-to-day, and fun stories with bugs.

Show him some love!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqj6l9wXip4

➥ Watch last week's video here.
➥ Read last week's thread here.

[Huren Ogeko]

nice
he says "we are seven programmers on paper"
How many is that not on paper I wonder
I never realized how small of a team they really are. I knew they were small but didnt expect it to be 7 "paper" devs small. This just makes what they have done so much more impressive.

[ZoomMan24]

Nice update, but not surprising to see so less enthusiasm on the forum. Just one comment till now!!?!

[Vectorspace]

I assume that by 7 developers he means coders. As opposed to texture artists, 3d artists, environment designers, game designers, sound engineers, etc.

[Huren Ogeko]

I am still amazed at how programming works these days. When I used to write stuff we had to make functions and routines in actual code. They seem to be able to just point and click dragging thing A to thing B and that somehow makes a game. It seems that 90% of the work is just making the graphics and animations and the actual coding part is so simplified now that is near comical to me. I just cant get my head around how this even works.

I used to write bare metal code for very specific hardware and also some utility programs in C and later C++. Its just wild to see how much things have changed in the past 20 years.

[bloodthaw]

Originally posted by Huren Ogeko:

I am still amazed at how programming works these days. When I used to write stuff we had to make functions and routines in actual code. They seem to be able to just point and click dragging thing A to thing B and that somehow makes a game. It seems that 90% of the works is just making the graphics and animations and the actually coding part is so simplified now that is near comical to me. I just cant get my head around how this even works.

I used to write bare metal code for very specific hardware and also some utility programs in C and later C++. Its just wild to see how much things have changed in the past 20 years.

Its still programming. Its just "visual programming", you still have most of the same struggles as normal (minus the pointers and memory management). I am a full time dev for work, and a game dev as a hobby. Visual programming is just a wrapper for the actual code itself.

[evoBanger]

Well, I'm bored to waiting new Update. It's been too long. C'MON!

[Huren Ogeko]

Originally posted by bloodthaw:

Originally posted by Huren Ogeko:

I am still amazed at how programming works these days. When I used to write stuff we had to make functions and routines in actual code. They seem to be able to just point and click dragging thing A to thing B and that somehow makes a game. It seems that 90% of the works is just making the graphics and animations and the actually coding part is so simplified now that is near comical to me. I just cant get my head around how this even works.

I used to write bare metal code for very specific hardware and also some utility programs in C and later C++. Its just wild to see how much things have changed in the past 20 years.

Its still programming. Its just "visual programming", you still have most of the same struggles as normal (minus the pointers and memory management). I am a full time dev for work, and a game dev as a hobby. Visual programming is just a wrapper for the actual code itself.

Its just that part I cant get my head around. I understand its still programming but its just so foreign to me.

[Huren Ogeko]

Originally posted by evrenTheBanger:

Well, I'm bored to waiting new Update. It's been too long. C'MON!

Update 6 took longer then this update did. I think there was other updates that too even longer as well.
It will come first to experimental then in a month or so later to everyone else on early access.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by evrenTheBanger:

Well, I'm bored to waiting new Update. It's been too long. C'MON!

I bet if they deliver a broken update that you will be the very first to complain that it is broken and that the devs should have taken more time to improve it.

[orthostatic]

shout out to the build engineer. tool-chain management is the real art of programming.