From Struggle To Redemption

edit: Slides Posted! Powerpoint here. Please install the font included in the zip first or the presentation will look super funky! PDF here – some of the slides are mangled, and there are no notes, but it works without powerpoint.   This post is meant as an accompionment to my GDC Lecture: From Struggle To [...]

Speaking at GDC Online!

Headed to GDC Online in Austin, TX next week to give a talk about the chat service for League of Legends! I will be speaking there Thursday afternoon at 2:30 come check it out! My talk is a history of the problems we had launching and scaling our chat service and about how we overcame [...]

Programmer Religious War – C vs C++ Style Casts.

There are many issues in the programming world that seem to divide people down religious lines. These issues seem to cause endless internet flame wars and programmer rants without ever coming to a consensus. photo credit: Philippe Put One of these issues I’ve been seeing a lot lately is about whether to use the old school [...]

5 Book Recommendations for Preparing for Your Game Programming Interview

I received a ton of responses from all of you job hunters out there to my last post on resume tips. Most of the questions I received was from people wanting to know how to prepare for the next phase of the process and be able to do well on their interview. There is already a ton of general interview prep [...]

5 Resume Tips for Total N00bs to Land a Job as a Game Programmer

Post GDC we received a lot of resumes. Which means that my team has to spend a lot of time going through resumes of game engineers and deciding which to follow up with, and which to pass on. And because of the high student population at GDC the majority of these resumes were from students with no [...]

Best of GDC 2011 — Talks and Lectures and Cheese*

Just got back from GDC 2011 and had an amazing time. As always I have come back from GDC feeling inspired. Talking to people at the top of their game, pushing the envelope on game development always starts a fire in me to do the same. At no time do am I more excited about [...]