Amir Rajan

Amir tells Jonathan and Nick about DragonRuby, his experiences with making games, playing them, and wondrous digressions. http://amirrajan.net/7-lessons-from-7-years-of-indie-game-dev/ http://dragonruby.org/Dragon Ruby Game Toolkit Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuY7CWdvyWM https://yzcroshaw.itch.io/the-life-of-erich-zannPerception game documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29kCOc6LjnY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_C._Gordon

Relicans host, Rachael Wright-Munn talks to full-time indie game developer and creator of A Dark Room iOS, Amir Rajan. This RPG conquered the world and took over the Number 1 spot in the App Store, and placed in the Top 10 paid apps across 70 countries. Amir is also the CEO of DragonRuby LLP, creators of DragonRuby Game Toolkit and RubyMotion.Should you find a burning need to share your thoughts or rants about the show, please spray them at devrel@newrelic.com. While you're going to all the trouble of shipping us some bytes, please consider taking a moment to let us know what you'd like to hear on the show in the future. Despite the all-caps flaming you will receive in response, please know that we are sincerely interested in your feedback; we aim to appease. Follow us on the Twitters: @PolyglotShow.

Amir speaks with Jonathan and Nick about A Dark Room on the Nintendo Switch, the saga of the secret programmability within, and whether Nintendo can take a joke. This is part 2 of our Amir Rajan double-feature.

Jonathan and Nick discuss Nier Automata with Amir Rajan, games, philosophy, and everything. We ended up recording for two hours, of which this is the first. We get really deep into this, and you won't regret listening.

02:27 - Amir’s Superpower: Sensitivity to Development Pain A Picture of Amir’s Keyboard and Battlestation Eye Tracker 06:59 - Developer Productivity and Breaking Constraints Magic Leap 16:58 - Idea Flow 21:00 - Building an Environment That Enables You File Watching Automating Leverage 28:18 - Optimizing Local Maxima Bret Victor: The Future of Programming Delta Time 41:01 - Questioning Fundamental Assumptions Continuity of Design™️ Gradual Stiffening 46:55 - Game Development Unity 56:05 - Extremeness and Pushing Boundaries: Being a Weirdo/Being an Outlier/Thinking Differently Off Meta, Super Smash Brothers Melee Gods Meta and Off Meta DragonRuby Game Toolkit Sandbox Reflections: Jess: “A pin on my upkeeps.” Avdi: Meta and off meta. John: Continuity of design. Rein: Continuity and discreteness. Janelle: Process-oriented thinking. Amir: Being consistent with philosophies. This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!Special Guest: Amir Rajan.Sponsored By:PagerDuty: This episode is brought to you by PagerDuty. In an always-on world, teams trust PagerDuty to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers every time. With PagerDuty, teams spend less time reacting to incidents and more time building for the future.From digital disruptors to Fortune 500 companies, over 12,000 businesses rely on PagerDuty to identify issues and opportunities in real time and bring together the right people to fix problems faster and prevent them from happening again.We’re like the central nervous system for a company’s digital operations. We can analyze digital signals from virtually any software enabled system, and help you intelligently pinpoint issues like outages, as well as capitalize on opportunities, while empowering teams to take the right, real time action. To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit PagerDuty.com.Support Greater Than Code

Amir Rajan is CEO of RubyMotion, a tool that helps you turn your ruby code base into an iOS app. He shares his own app building experience, and what developers should know when turning their project into a mobile app. Show Links Compiler (sponsor) Porkbun (sponsor) Metaprogramming A Dark Room RubyMotion Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Amir RajanIndie game developer and stewart of RubyMotion.

Amir Rajan is the creator of minimalist text-based gems like A Dark Room, The Ensign, and A Noble Circle. As someone who creates games often rooted in literature and filled with socially relevant themes, he's seen profound response to the things he creates — both positive and negative. Join us as we discuss dealing with interpretations of your work, creating lasting art in an ever-changing digital landscape, and reconciling your past with your creative future.

Panel: Charles Max Wood Dave Kimura Special Guest:  Amir Rajan In this episode, the Ruby Rouges speak with Amir Rajan. Amir is a game developer and is the most successful Ruby game developer. Amir is also the owner/CEO of RubyMotion. RubyMotion allows you to write Ruby for the Mac platform. Amir will be speaking at Ruby Dev Summit this fall. Amir talks about being apart of not web part of Ruby and the innovation including mobile. The panel discusses building application for mobile in Ruby Motion and the OS platform. The panel also discusses the easy of building with RubyMotion and how the language has come along way since Mac Ruby and others. Also, how to get started and all installations required to build with RubyMotion. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ruby - not on the web Mobile Ruby Google and Android don’t provide the same thing for app building. Mac Ruby  Language Translation compiler LLVM bit code - Low-level virtual machine How RubyMotion works with LLVM Complier backends LLVM Kaleidoscope Understand one level below Ruby Ruby Source code  Learning RubyMotion - Red Potion, AF Motion, Bubble Wrap Masonry Understanding Apple’s documentation Ruby Motion does Android Why pick RubyMotion? and much much more. Links:  We are the designated survivors/digging into Ruby: Heredoc pull request LLVM Kaleidoscope RubyMotion Twich - Game Development with Ruby Amir Rajan @amirranjan Picks: Amir Nier: Automata Idle Thumbs Podcast Literate Gamer Podcast (favorite show) Dave Rerun Chuck Ruby Gems FriendlyID Ice_Cube Recurring_Select

Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraSpecial Guest: Amir RajanIn this episode, the Ruby Rouges speak with Amir Rajan. Amir is a game developer and is the most successful Ruby game developer. Amir is also the owner/CEO of RubyMotion. RubyMotion allows you to write Ruby for the Mac platform. Amir will be speaking at Ruby Dev Summit this fall.Amir talks about being apart of not web part of Ruby and the innovation including mobile. The panel discusses building application for mobile in Ruby Motion and the OS platform. The panel also discusses the easy of building with RubyMotion and how the language has come along way since Mac Ruby and others. Also, how to get started and all installations required to build with RubyMotion.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ruby - not on the web Mobile Ruby Google and Android don’t provide the same thing for app building. Mac Ruby  Language Translation compiler LLVM bit code - Low-level virtual machine How RubyMotion works with LLVM Complier backends LLVM Kaleidoscope Understand one level below Ruby Ruby Source code  Learning RubyMotion - Red Potion, AF Motion, Bubble Wrap Masonry Understanding Apple’s documentation Ruby Motion does Android Why pick RubyMotion? and much much more. Links:  We are the designated survivors/digging into Ruby: Heredoc pull request LLVM Kaleidoscope RubyMotion Twich - Game Development with Ruby Amir Rajan @amirranjan Picks:Amir Nier: Automata Idle Thumbs Podcast Literate Gamer Podcast (favorite show)DaveRerunChuck Ruby Gems FriendlyID Ice_Cube Recurring_SelectSpecial Guest: Amir Rajan.

Panel:Charles Max WoodDave KimuraSpecial Guest: Amir RajanIn this episode, the Ruby Rouges speak with Amir Rajan. Amir is a game developer and is the most successful Ruby game developer. Amir is also the owner/CEO of RubyMotion. RubyMotion allows you to write Ruby for the Mac platform. Amir will be speaking at Ruby Dev Summit this fall.Amir talks about being apart of not web part of Ruby and the innovation including mobile. The panel discusses building application for mobile in Ruby Motion and the OS platform. The panel also discusses the easy of building with RubyMotion and how the language has come along way since Mac Ruby and others. Also, how to get started and all installations required to build with RubyMotion.In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Ruby - not on the web Mobile Ruby Google and Android don’t provide the same thing for app building. Mac Ruby  Language Translation compiler LLVM bit code - Low-level virtual machine How RubyMotion works with LLVM Complier backends LLVM Kaleidoscope Understand one level below Ruby Ruby Source code  Learning RubyMotion - Red Potion, AF Motion, Bubble Wrap Masonry Understanding Apple’s documentation Ruby Motion does Android Why pick RubyMotion? and much much more. Links:  We are the designated survivors/digging into Ruby: Heredoc pull request LLVM Kaleidoscope RubyMotion Twich - Game Development with Ruby Amir Rajan @amirranjan Picks:Amir Nier: Automata Idle Thumbs Podcast Literate Gamer Podcast (favorite show)DaveRerunChuck Ruby Gems FriendlyID Ice_Cube Recurring_SelectSpecial Guest: Amir Rajan.