I’m learning c++ via exercism because I’d like to use it for game development and other high performance use cases, and because it’s a good pip for the resume.

In fact, I mostly did this because so many job listings mention it, haven’t even come up with a high-scale game dev problem to solve.

I’ll probably continue because I find it interesting and no amount of practice is bad, but my question is how is everyone letting this affect their outlook on c++ in their career vs side projects, etc. Really, I’m having a hard time imagining why it was important for this to be said in this way instead of just changing internal policies and job listings.

It’s nuts how a difference of hundreds of millions of people doesn’t actually feel like a ton more people or provide any better quality except in some niche spots

Dragon Warrior Monsters 1 was my first game, 1 and 2 are both classics and this looks fucking sick

Blender for the texture painting

Material Maker for turning those textures into game engine ready materials. It’s also capable generating textures using noise and other patterns. Examples

My deck’s the talk of the town