#121 Ben Awad is a GameDev Who Sleeps 9 Hours EVERY NIGHT to be Productive
The freeCodeCamp Podcast
Quincy Larson
5.0 • 549 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2024
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of the podcast, freeCodeCamp founder Quincy Larson interviews Ben Awad, a game developer who creates developer tutorials on YouTube and TikTok.
I hope you enjoy our conversation. Can you guess what bass line I'm playing on my bass during the intro? It's from a 1979 song.
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Links we talk about during the interview:
Ben's game, Void Pet on Android and iOS (Built in React Native): https://voidpet.com/
XKCD coming on "Real Programmers" that Quincy mentions: https://xkcd.com/378/
React Native course by Ben Awad: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/create-an-app-that-works-on-ios-android-and-the-web-with-react-native-web/
I can't find my Mac Control hotkeys video tutorial that I mentioned anywhere, so I wrote a quick article explaining how to use these: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/mac-control-keyboard-shortcuts-hotkeys-that-work-everywhere-in-macos/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm The The Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of Freakocamp.org. |
| 0:39.2 | Each week we're bringing you insight from developers, founders, and ambitious people getting into tech. |
| 0:45.3 | This week, we're joined by none other than Ben Awad, who is a developer. |
| 0:52.8 | He is a prolific creator on both YouTube and TikTok. |
| 0:56.7 | And very importantly, he is working on a new game, |
| 1:00.9 | which already has like more than 100,000 installs in the app store called VoidPet, |
| 1:07.4 | which I would describe as emotional support Pokemon. |
| 1:13.1 | Thank you, Quincy. |
| 1:14.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, it's great to have you here, man. |
| 1:17.2 | I check my calendar before we joined this call. |
| 1:20.8 | And the last time you and I talked was four years ago. |
| 1:24.8 | And that's like a sixth of your life, right? Like, if you don't want me |
| 1:28.5 | asking, how old are you? I'm 26. Yeah. Yeah. So you do the divisions. Yeah. So, like, |
| 1:34.4 | that's a lot of time for Ben to be out of the fold. Uh, sorry, I'm a Ben Folds fan. |
| 1:41.1 | With, with the Free Code Camp community. Uh, but you've been getting a ton of stuff done but first |
| 1:48.2 | i just want to address the fact that like if you look at ben awad tick tock if you look at ben awad |
| 1:52.4 | youtube like production has slowed down a whole lot i just want to make sure that the mafia |
| 1:58.1 | didn't like do like a hit on your entire family at their family |
| 2:01.3 | were you even like in Punisher and that there's like that everything is cool they actually |
| 2:05.5 | did sorry we can't talk about it anymore all right all right man unless you if you want to continue |
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