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What Casey Muratori thinks about video games

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Game and engine programmer, creator of Handmade Hero and of the Computer Enhance course on performance-aware programming, and a long-standing critic of object-oriented design orthodoxy. He worked on the user interface of Jonathan Blow's The Witness, which is the codebase his writing on compression-oriented programming draws its examples from.

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  1. Our readingOnce the barrier to making a game collapsed, making a good game stopped being enough: no game gets noticed organically any more, so shipping without a marketing plan is unwise.

    Their wordsIt's it's so massive that there is no way that your game will be organically noticed anymore pretty much period.

    ↗Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratoriyoutube.com 17th of 26 in this recording

    Interesting

  3. Our readingGraphics have stopped selling games: most of the market by revenue no longer cares how a game looks, so new games now compete with the entire back catalogue.

    Their wordsBut a large portion of the gaming market by revenue doesn't really care what the game looked like all that much uh in a sense that whatever we're doing today is good enough. So 10 years from now if the games look much better for some reason no one will really think of that as a huge differentiation differentiator in terms of sales.

    ↗Why performant code matters (but gets widely ignored), with Casey Muratoriyoutube.com 18th of 26 in this recording

    Interesting