#35 Mentored by our youngers

Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 7:20 p.m.

Justin has met another interesting character in the Roblox dev space. He's released about 100 games, has interned at Roblox itself and has over a million monthly players on his own games. He's been checking out Slider and giving Justin some advice\u2014primarily to make the game less linear.

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Mark has also been inspired by a game dev on YouTube gotten some useful takeaways from him. His name is "The Cherno" and uses livestreams as a way to create graphics engine development screencasts for his audience. He records very long livestreams, gets what he wants to screencast figured out and then does them live in just a couple or usually in a single take! The quality of his screencasts dropped when he started doing this, but the recent ones are very good.

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Justin also went on Startups for the Rest of Us for an interview, Starlink has some very eyebrow-raising clauses in its TOS and the NTD is getting strong.

\nToday's Topics include:\n
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  • Roblox dev
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  • Making non-linear games
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  • Recording screencasts during livestreams
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  • No code
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  • Self-driving cars
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  • Jurisdiction in space
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\nMentioned\n\nMark's goals for next time\n
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  • Record 4 screencasts
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  • Livestream or otherwise build in public every day
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\nJustin's goals for next time\n
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  • Work out the game mechanic changes for Slider
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On Apple Podcasts at https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/reactor/id1500109358