"The super-powerful beam or whatever." Code Libraries; Game Overs [Nice Replay]

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"The super-powerful beam or whatever."

Roundtable

2024.06.27

This week, your nice hosts talk about code that isn't yours and ask about the natural conclusion of the narrative. Mark is handy, Ellen kinda wants to add a note, and Stephen is grounded.

It looked so easy in the brochure, but the brochure lied

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Antony Ingram

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Hagerty

Code Libraries

0:07:41

Mark LaCroix

Production

Programming

Tools

Best practices for writing code comments

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Ellen Spertus

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Stack Overflow Blog

Declare namespaces to organize types

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Microsoft Learn

Your nice hosts discussed licensing in a previous episode:

"What's a little grand larceny?"

Game Overs

Stephen McGregor

Game Design

Narrative

Alternatives to the Game Over screen

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Game Developer

We didn't mention it in the episode for some reason, but our "Metroidvania-lite" game Widget Satchel had no deaths, game overs, or failure states.