#118 Indie Game Dev Jabrils talks about AI, Anime, and How to Build Games

The freeCodeCamp Podcast

Quincy Larson

Education, Technology

5.0 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of the podcast, I interview Jabril. He's an indie game developer who's building a turn-based fighting game called ultrabouters.

Jabril has developed tons of other games as well. He runs the popular Jabrils gamedev focused-YouTube. He's also published a 5-hour introduction to programming course on freeCodeCamp.

We talk about:

- How Jabril got into gamedev as a kid when he got a copy of GameMaker
- Jabril's career working at a comedy club and a radio station
- The anime that Jabril's been working on for years
- Jabril's advice to gamedevs who want to make a career out of building video games

Can you guess what bass line I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's a 2009 song that became popular in the 2010's by being associated with a meme.

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Links we talk about during the interview:

Jabril's full length Programming for Beginners course on freeCodeCamp: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/programming-for-beginners-how-to-code-with-python-and-c-sharp/

That time Quincy angered the entire BTS army with a confused tweet: https://twitter.com/ossia/status/993171422863417344

"The best episodes of Shark Tank are the bad ideas." How Jabril created a Fake Shark Tank Episode Generator using AI tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcGjYivktyc

Subscribe to Jabril on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Jabrils

Transcript

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Welcome back to the FreeCote Camp podcast.
0:42.7	I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of FreecodeCamp.org.
0:46.8	Each week we're bringing you insight from developers, founders, and ambitious people getting into tech.
0:52.9	This week, we're joined by Jibril.
0:56.1	Jibrill is building a turn-based fighting game called Ultra Bouters.
1:01.7	And he's developed a ton of games over the years,
1:04.5	which he's featured on his very popular YouTube channel,
1:08.2	all about game development.
1:09.7	Got lots of links to cool stuff that he's built over the years that you can check out.
1:13.7	But first, Jabrille, how's it going, man?
1:16.6	Wincy.
1:17.1	Thanks for having you, man.
1:18.3	Thanks for the intro.
1:19.0	That's such a great intro.
1:20.6	Thanks.
1:21.4	Yeah, I just, I rehearsed when I told you earlier, I just rehearsed when I'm like walking
1:25.7	back from dropping my kids off at school.
1:44.7	Like, just kind of, yeah. Anyway, I'm thrilled to have you here, man, because, like, I've just enjoyed so much, like, watching your video late. I always watch it late at night because it's so entertaining and I find you, like, laugh twice as hard at things when it's, a little bit after bedtime. So, uh, yeah, man.
1:45.6	Like I was just watching like, for example, the fake Shark Tank episode generator tool that you created that creates, uh, the scripts from like, uh, shark tank and like they're very absurd product ideas.
1:58.2	But like, oh yeah.
1:59.0	You know, it feels just like an actual Shark Tank episode in terms of the absurdity of the show, which is if anybody spent a lot of time in business, you know that the show is pretty divorced from reality in terms of how business deals actually go down.
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