[ensiferum]

True words. There's so much YAGNI and NIH that people pour their motivation/time/effort into and end up with nothing.

Btw, Handmade Hero is really a prime example of this stupidity.

Personal addendum: https://github.com/ensisoft/pinyin-invaders

[tashi]

Stupidity!? Handmade Hero seems to me to be a uniquely great resource for learning the guts of game development. He's made it clear from day one, and has reiterated often, that the aim isn't to make a game as fast as possible, and that there are lots of good engines available if you just want to make a game. Are you sure you're not judging it by the wrong standards?

[ensiferum]

Handmade Hero, day 325 ticket mutexes. Yawwwn.... Most of the stuff that he spends (wastes) his time on is really not relevant to a game development, at least not initially if at all.

I personally view it as an "exploration in NIH" under the ruse of "game development".

It does make up for an kinda amusing show tho. "Day 4524, debugging my shitty vector implementation" (;

[psyc]

Handmade Hero very explicitly has the opposite goal. Calling it stupidity in that context is extremely asinine.