Our Machinery

The team discusses Entity Component Systems

Niklas, Tricia, and Karl finalize the Foundation series.

The crew continues to discuss The Machinery's Foundations.

Tobias, Niklas, Karl, and Tricia talk about The Machinery's foundation library. The fundamental building block that the rest of the application is built on.

Tobias, Tricia, Niklas and Karl sit down with Dennis Gustafsson @tuxedolabs to talk Physics, Games, and Voxels. His game, Teardown is in Early Access on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1167630/Teardown/

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/6vZT4Q9F49 Roadmap: https://ourmachinery.com/roadmap.html Pricing info: https://ourmachinery.com/pricing.html Robert Berg: https://www.artstation.com/pixelgoat Procedural Forest: https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/VA1v/procedural-forest-environment-unreal-engine-4?utm_source=artstation&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=homepage&utm_term=marketplace

The Team discuss the current tech roadmap.

We discuss Asset Import Pipelines.

Are you a Diablo, Torchlight, and/or Rebel Galaxy fan? We talk to Erich Schaefer about game dev and design in this episode. http://doubledamagegames.com/ Is Erich's current company.

We tackle Data-Oriented Design in this week's episode. If you have comments or want to discuss something about this episode you can post it here: https://github.com/OurMachinery/blog-comments/issues/18

The team talks about Advanced IMGUI. If you have any questions about this episode you can discuss them on here as well as look for references: https://github.com/OurMachinery/blog-comments/issues/13

The team discusses Fiber Based Job Systems.

Welcome to season 3! First up: Niklas and Tricia explore how outside help can improve your game with Jeff Green, Robert Coffey, and Ryan Scott of Min/Max consulting. https://min-max.net/

Season 2 Final with Bill Roper, Niklas Gray, and Tricia Gray. We discuss game dev and the Covid19.

Tobias, Karl, Niklas, and Tricia discuss whether code reviews are good or bad.

Karl and Tobias are back with Niklas and Tricia to discuss testing.

CCO of Author Digital, Bill Roper talks shop with Tricia and Niklas on all things game development.

Bill Roper, Chief Creative Officer at AuthorDigital guest hosts for several episodes this season. We talk about his history in the video game industry from his beginnings at Blizzard and his current adventure at AuthorDigital.

We go over 3 features in the Closed Beta: Creation Graphs, Plugins, and Collaboration.

We just launched our closed beta, feel free to sign up here: https://ourmachinery.com/beta.html Sorry for the shouting in the beginning, we are using new recording software due to us being in different locations. :)

Question of the day: Do you believe in the 10x programmer?

We tackle what to do when you've made a bad decision and too much is already at stake.

Tobias, Tricia, Niklas, and Karl talk about why documentation is important.

Our community loved the Style Guide, but some people wanted to know why we wrote one. This episode we talk about why we did it.

Season 2 starts with Tobias back in action, a new voice in the company- Karl!! And a Special Announcement on what we are doing FOR REAL!

Special Guest Ole Ciliox talks to us about Work/Life Balance in the Video Games Industry.

Ole Ciliox, the guest host this episode with Tricia and Niklas. They talk about what's the best engine for Indies and AA games.

This is the Summer Series with Guest host, Ole Ciliox.

Welcome to our Summer Series with Niklas, Tricia, and our special guest host, Ole Ciliox subbing in for Tobias. Ole is Senior Software Engineer, at System Era. He recently worked on awarding-winning games, Astroneer and HOB from Runic Studios (defunct). On this episode we'll talk all things Ole, so you can get to know him better.

Final episode this season! We answer "who are you".

We got asked about why we did the marketing blog series on this week's episode.

Martin Hajek asked, "Many game devs aren't happy with C++. You are using it more on the plain C side, Jonathan Blow is developing his own language. What do you think about such efforts?" We discuss our opinion on this week's episode.

This week's question is: "When do you decide to move along to the next feature?"

While programming do we encounter mental 'blocking'. As in unexpectedly encountering a complex problem requiring a lot of mental energy/effort to keep going and not get distracted. We explain our methods to get unblocked in this week's episode.

Martin Hajek asked "What inspiration you took from other engines?" We answer in this episode.

People are asking how our Alpha is doing, listen in and find out!

We discuss how we handle cross-platform graphics API in this week's episode.

We got asked on Twitter: "What it takes to be part of the team? And if possible, would you mind sharing if/when you are planning in expanding your workforce?"

In Our Machinery's first episode, co-founders Tobias Persson, Niklas Gray, and Tricia Gray discuss The Machinery.