Absolute Beginners

Finn Smith and John Turman
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John and Finn are absolute beginners learning game development. Join them as they figure out Unity, Unreal, C#, C++, and everything in between.

Episodes

  1. 07/09/2023

    AB 3 of X — Unity vs. Unreal

    Finn has started a new job! He's now product manager of Data Services at Candid. John, in the meantime, has been watching videos by Unreal Sensei and decided to switch from Unity to Unreal. He's grateful for everything he learned with Unity, but it seems like Unreal is a bit better suited for the kinds of open-world games that he loves. John has been learning C++ and has been experimenting with building in Unreal. We aren't sure if Unreal is trendy right now — it seems like more people are using Unity, but that it's the best solution for mobile games. Who knows; we're just beginners!

  2. 06/28/2023

    AB 2 of X — John's new games

    Finn and John have been learning Unity and C#. John has made a lot of progress with online tutorials and the book, but Finn has been a bit busy with professional networking. John has been developing an intuition of how different things interact in C#, such as the relationship between variables and structs. He's also been playing around with two functions that always come built into a new Unity C# script:

  3. 02/21/2023

    AB 1 of X — Learning what we want to learn

    This is a podcast about learning new things. Join us as we explore game development by building things together. We'll try to document our conversations here so that the next person who comes along can move faster. We (Finn and John) are literally absolute beginners when it comes to game development. Finn works in tech in the Bay Area, and John has a PhD in philosophy. Both of us have been interested in game dev for a while but haven't had a chance to pursue it yet.

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John and Finn are absolute beginners learning game development. Join them as they figure out Unity, Unreal, C#, C++, and everything in between.

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