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One of the contributors is creating a video game from scratch in a series of videos.

He just did day 60 today. It's probably going to take at least a year. It's quite educational to start from scratch without any libraries.

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I've been thinking of binge-watching this rather than Netflix shows :D

I'm not into game development or C... but it looks so well done I'm sure I'd learn tons... even just watching it casually.

It's really good. Lots of stuff applicable to general programming, os, architecture etc. Very watchable. I love the guys style.

I highly recommend it, even if you just want a refresher on C.

My only issue with the series is that he uses WinAPI instead of something more... sane, like SDL or OpenGL; which makes the code much more obscure and low level, and the code not portable at all.

I guess, however, that I could learn a thing or two about getting stuff done and structuring an engine/game. Wish I had the time to watch this.

Actually I found that to be one of the major strength, it encouraged me to look into how the corresponding Linux API's work and made me realize that it isn't all that hard to get something like an OpenGL window (at least if you use GLEW) with basic input working. Even something like the dynamic code reloading he does by using Windows API calls, can be ported fairly trivially to Linux.

He addressed this in the FAQ. There are already ports to other platforms.

https://forums.handmadehero.org/index.php?option=com_content...

Thanks for the link, cool series!

Cool project, thanks for the link !

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