I saw this tweet asking gamedevs for gifs and read through a lot of the replies and was struck by how many of the pitches didn’t have enough to hook me on the game. As an exercise, I tried to figure out specific improvements to these pitches or must-have elements for a pitch.

For context: I recently shipped a game translated into 14 languages and I was the programmer who adapted our translation system from another game, updated our game to use the system, and managed importing translations.

I’ve worked in gamedev for more than a decade, and would like to help others get started. I’m also curating some links and notes about the business side of games since that’s where I have little experience.

I’ve used vim for more than a decade and written many plugins. Here are some collected thoughts on the editor, getting started, getting advanced, and improving your experience.

Some clippings of advice I’ve given to others on good places to learn about CPU performance. Or reminders for myself.

If you want to compile the code you’re working with right now, chances are you can do: