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| 0s | oh |
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| 3s | this is like old code |
| 7s | my name is uh G2 and now my name is not |
| 11s | YouTube |
| 14s | my name is G2 |
| 17s | um my real name is Gustav and I work as |
| 21s | a lead programmer here for coffee |
| 24s | Studios why do people call me G2 |
| 28s | because I was the second ago stop that |
| 32s | started here |
| 36s | that's how easy it is |
| 38s | but you're the only good stuff now |
| 41s | now yes |
| 43s | should we change it do you want to be G1 |
| 45s | no no |
| 47s | okay yeah |
| 49s | I've been at coffee stand Studios for |
| 52s | almost 11 years |
| 54s | and the first game I started working on |
| 57s | was sanctum 2 and since then I worked on |
| 60s | code simulator and now on satisfactory |
| 64s | and I was a programmer on all of these |
| 66s | games and for the last part of |
| 68s | satisfactory I have been the elite |
| 70s | programmer so as a lead programmer I |
| 72s | have a bit more responsibility like |
| 75s | getting the bigger picture of the |
| 77s | project and the and the code and |
| 80s | planning a little bit around when we do |
| 82s | stuff how we do stuff interacting with |
| 85s | the rest of the team to try to think |
| 88s | I find ways to work |
| 91s | as a lead I'm also |
| 94s | responsible for the the perforce |
| 97s | branches we have perforce is our version |
| 99s | and control we use |
| 101s | to submit our code so we have a history |
| 103s | of all all the changes we have so if we |
| 106s | are working on a new update we might be |
| 108s | working here and then we are fixing bugs |
| 110s | for the current release over here |
| 112s | and then those two needs to be synced |
| 114s | right around the release there's a lot |
| 116s | of things to organize but then after a |
| 119s | release it's usually more common I get |
| 122s | more College time to program I do miss |
| 124s | programming |
| 125s | yes but I also like helping other people |
| 129s | with the organizing stuff and make sure |
| 131s | that they can focus on the programming |
| 133s | in the programming team we are seven |
| 136s | programmers on paper |
| 138s | but we also have a |
| 140s | Tech artist who is doing a lot of |
| 142s | programming and a build engineer and I |
| 145s | consider those two parts of the |
| 146s | programming team as well for software I |
| 149s | use jet paints writer for the |
| 151s | programming part and then I use |
| 154s | Microsoft Paint for the art part |
| 160s | uh what Hardware do you use |
| 163s | what Hardware do I guess |
| 168s | say the line |
| 171s | a computer |
| 174s | in studios we use Unreal Engine it was |
| 178s | the first engine we used so we have |
| 181s | developed contact with good contacts at |
| 184s | Epic and continued using their products |
| 186s | so the upgrade from 144 to 5 has been |
| 192s | a big task I think we underestimated not |
| 197s | the operating of the engine but the part |
| 199s | of migrating all of our systems to some |
| 202s | of the new systems provided in |
| 204s | the version 5. there have been a lot of |
| 206s | fixing and a lot of bugs to just picks |
| 209s | up the content when you migrate from one |
| 212s | system to a new system we used mainly C |
| 215s | plus for the game code and then we also |
| 219s | use blueprint when interfacing with the |
| 222s | UI and the design team blueprints that |
| 225s | is light code but it's a visual coding |
| 229s | language so you drag lines between boxes |
| 233s | basically and it's easy to use for our |
| 237s | designers and the UI thing to to get |
| 240s | things going so a typical day for me |
| 242s | usually start with me getting to the |
| 245s | office filling up my glass of water |
| 247s | having a look at my my teams see if I |
| 252s | have any messages having the standoff |
| 254s | meeting and after that it's helping Jace |
| 257s | with programming |
| 259s | for the rest of the day yep |
| 261s | all day |
| 264s | the stand up is where we programmers |
| 268s | talk together and |
| 270s | we tell each other what we have been |
| 272s | working on and what we are going to work |
| 273s | on and also bringing up any problems |
| 276s | that would arise during the day or any |
| 278s | questions we have about the code and the |
| 280s | project |
| 281s | things like that code simulator and |
| 283s | satisfactory is very different games |
| 288s | I think the day-to-day tasks |
| 291s | they are a programmer they're kind of |
| 293s | the same |
| 294s | but the challenges are a bit different |
| 297s | so go team is a single player game and |
| 299s | satisfactory some multiplayer game |
| 301s | I think that that's one of the big ones |
| 304s | and such factor is much more scalable |
| 307s | that the place can build whatever they |
| 309s | want |
| 310s | and then go team you you really don't |
| 312s | have that got him was a little bit more |
| 314s | free as well I mean we could you could |
| 317s | add more more stuff like I have this |
| 319s | idea I had it in three games |
| 321s | satisfactory you might |
| 323s | want a whole discussion around it first |
| 325s | if it fits the game and things like that |
| 327s | my favorite thing about programming is |
| 330s | the creativity part like having a |
| 333s | feeling that that you are creating |
| 334s | something you are making making a game |
| 337s | you're making things in a game world |
| 338s | come to life I mean you have the idea in |
| 341s | your head I want to make this feature |
| 343s | for the game or |
| 345s | like for instance I want to make trains |
| 347s | and that is a creative process to to |
| 350s | code and to create solutions for how do |
| 353s | we have trains in satisfactory so the |
| 356s | process of making trains I was a |
| 359s | contributing factor to to having that |
| 361s | feature and getting people around |
| 364s | talking about how how do we make trains |
| 366s | what kind of systems do we need do we |
| 369s | have signaling how should the train work |
| 371s | and I started brainstorming on on IDs |
| 375s | and how we could technically solve this |
| 377s | issue and I'm also talking to to the |
| 381s | others involved |
| 382s | and starting the coding starting the |
| 386s | people starting the concepting how it |
| 389s | should look there was some challenging |
| 391s | parts and there's actually still a bug |
| 393s | in one of those challenging parts and |
| 395s | that is to get the trains to schedule |
| 398s | correctly when you have multiple trains |
| 400s | sharing the same tracks |
| 402s | and they can sometimes still look up in |
| 405s | what's called a deadlock so they stand |
| 407s | head to head just staring at each other |
| 410s | and that's not fully sold but that's |
| 413s | that's a tricky tricky thing to solve |
| 415s | it's a lot of |
| 416s | thinking about what happens if they meet |
| 420s | up in this way what happens if they do |
| 422s | this |
| 423s | that's definitely one of the most |
| 425s | challenging Parts there it sounds like |
| 427s | it should be simple but that that's a |
| 429s | big part of programming you can have |
| 430s | this great idea and then when you start |
| 433s | doing it you realize oh this is really |
| 435s | hard this is gonna take some time some |
| 438s | of the other features I were involved |
| 440s | with is pipes and the power system I |
| 445s | think those are two two big ones |
| 447s | since I've been here since the beginning |
| 449s | of the project I'll probably have my |
| 451s | hands on a lot of other features but the |
| 454s | main ones would be those so talking |
| 457s | about difficult issues for programmers I |
| 460s | think the fluid simulation is probably |
| 463s | one of the harder challenges I've had in |
| 465s | satisfactory |
| 467s | me and one of the other programmers in |
| 470s | Dylan we have |
| 472s | bounced a lot back and forth on on the |
| 474s | math and on that is how how do we solve |
| 476s | fluids like we are not a physicists or |
| 479s | scientists but |
| 481s | we have looked at a lot of resources |
| 483s | online tried to figure out okay how can |
| 485s | we fake fluids in a pipe |
| 487s | that's that's hard there is an issue |
| 490s | that I'm hoping to get some time to look |
| 492s | into right now you can you can set up to |
| 495s | buffers one is field and one is zero and |
| 497s | then you create a pipe between them and |
| 499s | they start flowing over |
| 501s | and then they go back |
| 502s | I'll only continue he definitely like |
| 505s | this so I wanted to settle like it goes |
| 508s | a little bit up and then slower and |
| 510s | slower until it settles at an equal |
| 511s | level that would be the solution my |
| 513s | least favorite aspect about programming |
| 516s | that's uh that's a hard question |
| 518s | programming can take time and sometimes |
| 521s | you have a great idea but |
| 523s | you realize it will take half a year to |
| 526s | make it so |
| 527s | that can be a bit of boring |
| 530s | I don't like merge conflicts probably |
| 532s | because I do a lot of the mergers here |
| 535s | at work between the different places |
| 537s | people work and you need to go to the |
| 539s | other person involved and say what |
| 541s | changes did you make |
| 543s | what should I keep if it's a lot of |
| 545s | conflict and emerged and you might need |
| 548s | to poke like five different people to |
| 549s | solve a resolve all the conflicts it's |
| 551s | not the work itself it's mostly time |
| 553s | consuming I did sign up to do problem |
| 555s | solving and this problem solving so yes |
| 559s | so the strangers bugged when I was |
| 561s | helping Jace with programming |
| 563s | we had a vehicle bug on our test level |
| 567s | we have like it's a flat level and we |
| 569s | have a little ramp and some other stuff |
| 571s | around the level |
| 572s | so when you would drive the vehicle off |
| 575s | the ramp in a specific way jumping out |
| 577s | than a vehicle is disappear when you |
| 581s | looked around like |
| 582s | on the map and where's the vehicle and |
| 585s | on this level we had a portal just the |
| 589s | designers were testing some things out |
| 590s | and when you looked at the portal and |
| 592s | went to it you saw the vehicle like |
| 594s | group coming out to the work portal |
| 597s | so that was a pretty funny bug uh we did |
| 601s | track it down to some wonkiness with the |
| 603s | math with the with the suspension |
| 606s | physics those were causing the the |
| 608s | bounce of the vehicles the bounce is |
| 610s | like what the vehicle is colliding with |
| 612s | so the physics went wrong |
| 614s | and the bonds started to grow like this |
| 617s | until it touched the portal and entered |
| 619s | it |
| 621s | yeah because it was a divide by zero |
| 622s | with a force |
| 624s | that's what it was and so so one of the |
| 626s | forces so the forces caused the vehicle |
| 628s | to scale infinitely large yeah uh and |
| 633s | then it touched the portal and then came |
| 635s | back on the portal with reset physics |
| 636s | yes |
| 638s | what advice I would give to |
| 642s | new programmers or those who want to |
| 645s | study programming first of all like why |
| 647s | do you want to learn programming and |
| 649s | what parts are you interested in |
| 651s | I would say it's the first thing to to |
| 653s | think about because that's going to |
| 654s | affect a little bit |
| 656s | which resources you get and stuff like |
| 658s | that so if you want to learn game |
| 661s | programming |
| 662s | you might want to learn C plus plus or C |
| 664s | sharp because that's used by the two two |
| 666s | major engines out there then I would |
| 670s | start with the basics learning like the |
| 673s | basics of the language |
| 674s | like what what's a variable what's the |
| 677s | for Loop |
| 678s | I will start with just the basics and do |
| 681s | some exercises on that and when doing |
| 684s | the exercises don't just follow the |
| 686s | tutorial but play around a little bit |
| 688s | with them and see what you can do with |
| 689s | it and I think it's important to choose |
| 693s | good |
| 694s | projects to to start |
| 697s | and not go too difficult like if you're |
| 701s | just starting to learn programming maybe |
| 703s | a console program to do rock paper |
| 705s | scissors is a good first start |
| 708s | and then move on to like Tic-tac-toe and |
| 712s | then if you want to learn some |
| 715s | some more game programming and a little |
| 717s | bit of math going into games |
| 719s | I would |
| 721s | do something like Space Invaders or |
| 723s | asteroids like those kinds of games what |
| 726s | programming languages |
| 728s | or what programming language you choose |
| 731s | doesn't matter too much I would say |
| 734s | because the basics of programming will |
| 737s | stay the same so if you start in one |
| 738s | language it will be easy to learn |
| 740s | another one |
| 741s | but if you if you do want to get into |
| 744s | game program then maybe |
| 746s | you shouldn't learn like a language used |
| 749s | mainly for web development things like |
| 751s | that some languages are easier to learn |
| 753s | yes |
| 754s | some languages are easier to get results |
| 757s | in |
| 758s | C plus plus is |
| 760s | known for being like |
| 762s | hard and boring to learn because you |
| 765s | spend your first hours days weeks just |
| 769s | in a console application |
| 771s | giving text input and text output that |
| 774s | can be a bit be motivating |
| 777s | but I wouldn't stress it too much which |
| 780s | one you choose |
| 781s | is there anything that you would like to |
| 784s | say maybe to the community I do love |
| 786s | your your feedback |
| 789s | to us developers because I I also play |
| 792s | the game and I love this game and I |
| 795s | I really like when I get some feedback |
| 798s | on on the features like oh we would be |
| 801s | cool to have this and this |
| 802s | but also getting cool saves sent by |
| 806s | people and just be amazed at what they |
| 809s | built programming is pretty cool yes and |
| 813s | good luck to everyone out there who is |
| 815s | trying it out |
| 817s | foreign |