Raylib is a lightweight, beginner-friendly, and open-source C library for game development, known for its simplicity and lack of external dependencies.

It's designed to streamline the creation of 2D and 3D games and has an intuitive API for managing graphics, audio, and input.

Ramon Santa Maria is the founder and lead developer of Raylib. He joins the show with

Joe Nash to talk about the Raylib project. Joe Nash is a developer, educator, and award-winning

community builder who has worked at companies including GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal. Joe got a start

in software development by creating mods and running servers for Gary's Mod.

And game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts.

Rebecca. Ray, welcome to the show. Thank you for joining me today.

Hello, Joe. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure.

So, as we mentioned, you are developer of Raylib, which I'm sure lots of our audience are familiar with, a fantastic C library for, you know, game development and all kinds of

other, I guess, graphical application development. What I want to start with is the path leading

up to Ray Lip, which as I understand it, is 11 years old today. So we've got quite a journey.

Where did your interest in game development come from? Like way back before Ray Lib,

what led you to where we are today? Well, actually before Raylib, I was working in video games development.

I worked in EA for some years and also work in small companies.

I also tried to create my own company, published a couple of mobile games for Windows

phone at that moment.

And after that, I got a job as a professor in a private education institution.

Actually, it was the first one to start teaching video games,

an official video game development course here in Spain, I think, actually.

And my task was teaching video games programming to mostly art students.

And yeah, that was a challenge because, well, usually the artist students were not that

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