Tim Sweeney
Person on 4 sites
Founder and CEO of Epic Games, creator of the Unreal Engine and of Fortnite.
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22 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Most of the pain a beginner feels while learning to program is not the difficulty of the craft but the failure of programming language design. (opens korrents.com)
“A lot of what they're facing isn't the challenge of learning a new art. It's friction introduced by failures of programming language design.”
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Society keeps rebuilding itself around credentials, but the companies that build great things hire the people who do great work, not the people with the certificates. (opens korrents.com)
“There's ever more pressure to rebuild society more and more around credentials. Do you have this certificate? Do you have that proof? But companies that are focused on just building great products and doing great…”
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A new developer should not release into an existing competitive genre: unless you happen to be the world's best at that one thing, you will not win. (opens korrents.com)
“I think the big thing to realize for indie developers right now is there's massive, massive competition in every major genre, and it's very unlikely that unless you just happen to be the world's best at a particular…”
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Most of the pain a beginner feels while learning to program is not the difficulty of the craft but the failure of programming language design. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens rcmnd.app)
“I’m most impressed with the games that have created what appears to be a full living, breathing world. Games that give you the sense that you’re just a part of it and there’s a lot more happening and there’s always…”
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Grand Theft Auto (opens rcmnd.app)
“With Grand Theft Auto, it’s just the realism and feeling that you’re in this huge city and that anything can happen and it’s all living and breathing and you’re just a part of it. The level with which Rockstar has…”
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Zork (opens rcmnd.app)
“And then the other game that I really got immersed in was Zork, which was a text adventure game. It would tell you where you are and what you see and you type in commands like go north or pick up sword or open door and…”
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens rcmnd.app)