[NTLUG:Discuss] VA Linux Systems -> Demo Days

[Steve Baker]

TJ Bell wrote:

> > I would say that four years of programming would be plenty enough. Let's
> > talk about this at the next meeting.
> 
> Even if it's not game programming experience??

Sure.  (Great Myth #23 exposed: Once you can program, you can program
anything!)

The only thing you need to be careful about with games is performance.

Suppose we write a MarioKart clone.  We need someone to figure out
the Kart's dynamics...physics, equations of motion...someone to figure
out how the other people on the track will drive....AI, neural nets
maybe?...perhaps we get ambitious and try to add a simple network
play option...UDP protocols, network programming skills.  Graphics,
sound, etc, etc. No one task is a GAMES programming task. It's
just a bunch of different skills lumped together.

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