"Handmade Hero is an ongoing project to create a complete, professional-quality game accompanied by videos that explain every single line of its source code. ... Although 100% of the programming for the game is captured in the videos, each step is also accompanied by continuous explanation of what is going on and why. It is meant to serve as a de facto class on game programming. "
Casey Muratori is generally worth watching. If you like what you see there, you might also be interested in the videos of Jonathan Blow (a friend and collegue of Casey) regarding the new programming language he is designing.
Designing a new language seems like it would be an extremely fascinating project. How exactly is that done. I'm only in my second semester of VB, so we haven't gone that deep yet.
Well, first you have to draft out the general idea behind the language, then you would design the usage by creating the semantics and syntax and defining the behaviour. This can take years, the result is a standard that can be implemented in a compiler infrastructure.
In this case you can watch how it's done very closely as Jonathan Blow is doing it openly and documenting the progress.
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1 u/DukeofAnarchy [OP] 24 Dec 2014 20:07
http://handmadehero.org/
"Handmade Hero is an ongoing project to create a complete, professional-quality game accompanied by videos that explain every single line of its source code. ... Although 100% of the programming for the game is captured in the videos, each step is also accompanied by continuous explanation of what is going on and why. It is meant to serve as a de facto class on game programming. "
1 u/glUniform4fv 25 Dec 2014 14:49
Casey Muratori is generally worth watching. If you like what you see there, you might also be interested in the videos of Jonathan Blow (a friend and collegue of Casey) regarding the new programming language he is designing.
1 u/Banthrau 21 Feb 2015 22:16
Designing a new language seems like it would be an extremely fascinating project. How exactly is that done. I'm only in my second semester of VB, so we haven't gone that deep yet.
0 u/glUniform4fv 22 Feb 2015 00:37
Well, first you have to draft out the general idea behind the language, then you would design the usage by creating the semantics and syntax and defining the behaviour. This can take years, the result is a standard that can be implemented in a compiler infrastructure.
In this case you can watch how it's done very closely as Jonathan Blow is doing it openly and documenting the progress.
0 u/Banthrau 22 Feb 2015 00:47
Thanks for the info