Interview (Audio only. Boo!)
Funny how different his voice is from the one in my head that reads out his posts.
I’ve got hayfever as well 
nose all stuffed up.
You know how some people don’t have a “face for television?” Well, I don’t have a “voice for radio”. Ahem.
Cas 
Nice interview. Why so few questions? (and why two last questions? :p)
It was kinda odd but we went on talking for 15 minutes after the interview finished, and he asked me all the interesting stuff I thought everyone might want to hear. Like, working with Steam, my thoughts on C++, why I use Java (because I’m an idiot), why don’t I do 3D games (because I’m not clever enough), why don’t I use Unity (because I’m too old, stupid and lazy to learn anything new), what’s Java performance like (half as fast as C++), when would I want to use C++ (to get on consoles), why don’t I want to get on consoles (because the business side of it is just so awful that I’d rather do something useful with my life), etc, etc.
Cas
Unless you’re being cynical, cas… unleash the recordings on to youtube, thecodinguniverse!
I always prefer to think of myself as “realistic” rather than “cynical”.
That statement itself is almost “optimistic”
Cas
I meant it like as if you were joking: “yeah, in the cut off part we solved most world problems” - but I guess the suggestion that you’d make stuff up just for fun, would be a bit far stretched. Sorry for the derailment.
No, really - we genuinely did talk about all the interesting stuff after he stopped recording! Bizarre. But I think he’s very young and inexperienced in the ways of interviewing yet (only 14!) so not a bad effort at all. Poor guy was very nervous. I could talk the hind legs off of an Arcturan megadonkey.
Cas
Great to hear Cas.
Although I probably knew all answers because of his questions thread 
He sounds a little like the 27bslash6, David Thorne. … It’s possible that I just think that becuse of the british accent though ;D
The ending ‘cherio’ really made me smile. I really love this kind of thing, I really hope to see more in the future, if possible.
Never heard that before…
I thought it was a cereal snack thing =D
I made this same mistake once. Only once.
I don´t know about that… I like your old-school BBC type of voice.
“if somebody is investing their time in you and you are investing your time in them, you really want to finish something other wise you let each other down”
This, I think is one of the most insightful things I have heard in a long time. I have always known it but you forget how much having someone to work with does. Very few people are truly self motivated. I think that this really is the best advice you could give to someone who is trying to program games.
Even fewer people are actually talented in all of programming, art, sound, music, game design, production, website construction, writing English*, business and marketing.
Cas
- Outside of China, English is the language you need to be an expert at to get taken credibly by the US and UK, which is where over 50% of the actual market is. It helps that most European countries noticed this a while back.
I don’t believe in talent.
Everyone can learn everything.
If only that was true!
I was one of these kids who couldn’t draw for shit.
And I practiced. You can learn to do these things…
Hard work > Talent
Learning improves your skills. Your talent determines your maximum skill.
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This is very true, but some people have to do less actively to achieve the same amount of “work” as others. (Intelligence varies a lot, unfortunately.)