joemanaco

I've wasted many, many years thinking OOP is the right way to do things and just realized in 99% it's the wrong approach to develop software. In the end you always end up in a big mess of classes, dependencies. And every now and then new there are new best-practices, design patterns or solutions to fix the problems only to make it even more complex.

Please watch this video. I don't agree 100% but with most of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM

Watch Handmade Hero from Casey Muratori.

I think you should have a good concept/idea how to reach your audience without to rely on the app stores.

When I started that wasn't required. You just released your game and users are coming in for free. So I decided to do lots of small apps - but in the long run it would have been wiser to do apps that engage the users for a long time and constantly update with new content to keep those users engaged.

For myself I'm currently moving to bigger projects and also release for consoles and PC/Steam. But it's very risky for a small developer - because if you develop serveral months or years and the game flops you're basically out of business.

Don’t ever bother learning or using object-oriented programming.

I've done press releases here and there but never put money in advertising or stuff like that.

I'm making between $3'000 and $10'000 Dollars with native apps/games and html5 games. I made much much more a few years ago but app store revenue is decreasing each month and all my latest apps made me nearly nothing. (My portfolio: http://intermediaware.com).

These are exactly the talks that had the most influence to the way I write software, too. Great list!

i dont have a favorite language, but i really enjoy to play around with BlitzMax and Monkey.

Hmmm, I'm thinking you're right. I've renamed it to "How to move prime calculation from execution to compile time". I hope this title fits better with the content.

yes, it's brute force, and the there are much faster algorithms. I just wanted to show, that it's possible to move expensive calculations to compile time with C++ Templates.

It's why I love C++ :-)

hmmm.... I've used that together with a friend for quite some time now and we never had problems. I assume we were just lucky. Thank you people, for clearing that up.

And yes, of course you're right, it's not really a server.