Adventures of an indie game developer trying to succeed without his life exploding
Episodes
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Thursday Jan 03, 2019
Jay and Matt take a deep dive into Unity's upcoming ECS and why its data oriented design is important.
Breakdown
- 2:06 - Personal experiences with mice and bats in the home
- 8:31 - Discord server
- 13:02 - Optimized code vs easy to use code
- 20:06 - Reactive vs Pure ECS
- 25:45 - Benefits of data oriented design and caching
- 32:13 - Unity job system
- 37:14 - C# managed memory and blittable types
- 42:54 - limitations you must follow when using Unity ECS and job system
- 50:51 - Jay's tips for Unity ECS hybrid mode
- 55:51 - Matt's thoughts on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- 1:04:22 - Jay's thoughts on Marvel's Spider-Man
- 1:13:47 - Matt recommends playing Total Chaos
Links
- Unity video about caching - great info about how caching works
- Blittable types - if you want to actually know what blittable types are
- Total Chaos - indie game Matt recommends
- Game Maker's Toolkit Skill Trees video - referenced when talking about Spider-Man
- Spider-Man Animation Anaylysis - another Spider-Man video we referenced
Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
Tuesday Nov 20, 2018
We talk about the experimental preview for Super Mario Bros. Crossover released for WebGL, and then Jay and Matt debate The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Breakdown
- 2:55 - Super Mario Bros. Crossover 4.0
- 17:00 - Emulated music and Game Music Emu
- 22:55 - Why the flash version could not be salvaged
- 26:53 - Foundational code and the EcsRx framework
- 34:40 - Rebuilding the Exploding Rabbit Community
- 40:13 - What does this mean for Glitch Strikers?
- 43:35 - Debate about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- 1:05:15 - Jay's experience with Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
- 1:12:22 - Broaching the tense subject of politics and morality
Links
- EcsRx Framework: A reactive take on the ECS pattern
- No Cartridge Podcast - Podcast recommended by Matt
- Exploding Rabbit Patreon - Support the show
- Play Super Mario Crossover 4.0 - Play the preview version we talk about
- Exploding Rabbit Discord - Join the community
- Matt Kap Bandcamp - Intro music
Wednesday Jul 18, 2018
Wednesday Jul 18, 2018
In this completely different episode of the Exploding Rabbit Podcast, Jay Pavlina and Matt Gyure talk about technologies unrelated to games, like cryptocurrencies. Game development will return next episode.
- 0:01:01 - Matt's Job
- 0:06:42 - Bike Accidents and Injuries
- 0:12:46 - Mac v. Windows
- 0:17:11 - Crypto-rabbit hole Part 1
- 0:22:06 - FPGA and Electronics Tangent
- 0:28:11 - Crypto-rabbit hole Part 2
- 1:05:01 - Jobs, work, and new opportunities
- 1:18:01 - Web technologies
- 1:26:35 - What We've Been Playing, Fortnite, Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker, God of War
Friday May 18, 2018
Friday May 18, 2018
Jay Pavlina and Matt Gyure dive into an Exploding Rabbit Hole full of code architecture. We also talk about making levels in Super Mario Bros. Crossover, what we've been playing, and quantum computing.
- 2:28 - ECS Architecture (Entity Component Sytem)
- 11:00 - Thoughts on Unity and the Godot Engine
- 19:54 - Engine Agnostic Code Design with Entitas
- 26:07 - View abstraction
- 31:06 - How levels were made in Super Mario Bros. Crossover
- 41:31 - Matt's been playing Super Meat Boy
- 44:56 - Jay's been playing Assassin's Creed Origins
- 54:24 - Interesting thing: Quantum Computing
References
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Sunday Apr 01, 2018
Jay Pavlina and Matt Gyure discuss how development for Super Mario Bros. Crossover began and what it was like working on it early on. Other topics include Jay's upcoming game development editor, what games they've been playing, and a few non-gaming topics like intermittent fasting and timeboxing.
Features music from the Castle in the Darkness Soundtrack by Matt Kap.