Alexei comments on Rationality and Video Games - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Alexei 18 September 2011 07:26PM

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Comment author: Alexei 18 September 2011 09:49:34PM *  2 points [-]

Sounds good! Free brains are neat indeed. If you are interested in doing game programing, you'll have to learn C# (in context of Unity3D engine). If you want to become more familiar with game design, I would suggest reading A Book of Lenses. I'll keep your name in mind, and I'll let you know when the next game starts. Thanks!

Edit: From Luke's interview, I gather that people who are good at math can help with FAI research. Something to consider.
Also, while I was replying to AlexMennen, I realized I am looking for people who are already interested in game design / programming. People who can pull their own weight and more, since that's very important in the start-up world, which is what this will feel like in the beginning.

Comment author: Emile 19 September 2011 09:12:35PM 0 points [-]

Good alternatives to Unity3D: making web games in Flash, or in Ruby/Python (for text-heavy "static" games); or make Android games in java, or iPhone/iPad games in Objective C.

Comment author: Alexei 19 September 2011 09:23:35PM 2 points [-]

Unity3D can create executables for Android and iPhone/iPad, so you code once and it's pretty much automatically ported to all platforms (including Flash in very near future). You just can't top that.