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Aug 17, 2017 1 hr 52 min

Puzzle Games with Mark Engelberg

from Programming Throwdown Hosted by Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Today we chat with Mark Engelberg about his background in software engineering and game design.

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Chapters

  1. 0:15 NASA Work and Programming Languages
  2. 7:11 The Evolution of VR Graphics
  3. 17:12 The History of MP3s
  4. 21:47 Programming Languages
  5. 28:16 The Benefits of Immutable Data Structures
  6. 35:50 REPL-Oriented Development
  7. 41:20 Puzzle Generation Methodology
  8. 47:09 The Logic of A* Search
  9. 51:53 Modeling Human Behavior
  10. 55:19 Manual vs. Machine Learning
  11. 57:27 Modeling Human Behavior to Measure Difficulty
  12. 1:11:07 Building Programming Instincts
  13. 1:15:01 Mental Execution of Code
  14. 1:17:33 Rover Control's Visual Programming Approach
  15. 1:21:09 Building Mental Models through Play
  16. 1:24:18 Rover Control vs. CodeMaster
  17. 1:31:26 Teaching Logic through Games
  18. 1:34:44 Boolean Satisfiability Problem
  19. 1:36:30 The 'Socket Wrench' Analogy
  20. 1:40:10 Designing a Logic Puzzle Game
  21. 1:45:57 The value of unplugged games
  22. 1:48:53 Closing remarks

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