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Hey audience, I'm just suggesting a video on game maths to Alana by Freya Holmer, which is an excellent video called Math for Game Devs.

If anyone wants to Google it, who's watching.

Down. The context is that because Layers Deep, the game that I'm co-directing is being made on Godot or GoDot.

I decided to learn how to use it.

And I've only done a little bit so far, but I'm enjoying it a lot more than I expected.

I expected to try and very quickly go, nope, can't do this, but I haven't had that experience at all.

Instead, what's happening is I'm going,

hmm, that's really interesting. Let me figure that out and then like having to research stuff pretty often, but I'm actually really, really enjoying it. I don't imagine it's really, but

it's fun. Well, I mean, in game dev, you only have to be as good as the game you're trying

to make and the bugs you need to fix

ultimately like you know that's true you can go away with murder frankly and goddorings i have

um but no i'm really i'm really liking it as well as an engine it's just it's it's nice it's fun to play

with like yeah it's just a pleasant experience. Yeah.

I mean, working at Sony Santa Monica Studio, part of my job was taking lines that I had written

and then working with a designer to put the lines in the level, right?

I wouldn't do that myself.

I'd put them in the engine, but I wouldn't place them time-wise in the level, like, where they would trigger.

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