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Apr 15, 2021 56 min

28 // Learning from games

from Metamuse Hosted by Adam Wiggins, Mark McGranaghan

Video games are often on the leading edge of technical, design, and social innovation in the software world. Mark and Adam discuss what productivity tools can learn from games including the culture of performance; tools like Twitch and Discord; and end-user programming via scripting and modding. Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes Seattle cherry blossoms episodes with Rasmus Andersson and Andy.Works Serious Play “death march” in game development developer experience esports Age of Empires II Counter-Strike FEZ; Papers, Please; Baba Is You Core-A Gaming Playing to Win the metagame the Olympics Nvidia frame rate counters Nintendo Switch Makepad code folding Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) Cyberpunk 2077 and everything is securities fraud Duke Nukem Forever No Man’s Sky and launch controversy Mass Effect, Horizon Zero Dawn Muse onboarding scripting, modding, skinning tower defense A Small Matter of Programming My Life as a Night Elf Priest World of Warcraft free-to-play (F2P) games Team Fortress Valve Left 4 Dead Steam Valve employee handbook Candy Crush, Wooga, FarmVille Twitch Justin.tv CGP Grey on Twitch American Truck Simulator Among Us, US congressperson livestreams consumer surplus Discord T90 Zero Punctuation, Girlfriend Reviews Game Maker’s Toolkit Metroid Nintendo Power magazine haptic feedback Batman: Arkham Asylum / detective mode Tetris max-out score four-minute mile speedruns Twitch paid subscriber emotes Myst built in Hypercard Strider, Angband, rougelikes Lucas Pope, Return of the Obra Dinn

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