Young Programmers Podcast

Interviews about game development with Bay Area Video Game Development Meetup members at the January 19, 2010 meetup.

• Casey Holtz, group leader
• Turi Scandurra, www.salvatorescandurra.com
• Greg Damiano, Playdom
• Simon Amarasingham, dSonic
• Japheth Dillman, iJanda.net

Michael (Van) Van Riper, at a Silicon Valley Web Java User Group (see Joshua Bloch in the background) talks about programming.

Walkthrough of version 1 of the Invisible Player Escapes Maze game in Pygame.

Source code

Escape the maze. You are invisible, and so are all the obstacles unless they are close to you. Illustrates use of the ghost effect, and broadcast. http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/davebric/818925

Escape the maze before you grow too big. Illustrates use of the timer, and “if touching color.” The Scratch project is here: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/davebric/818258

A very quick look at version 2 of our Jython implementation of Conway’s Game of Life. Source code