alt Hacker NewsWhat games has he shipped?
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singleshot_ • today at 2:47 PM
Very interesting that the Christmas Disk still has not been released.
moefh • today at 2:44 PM
He works in the engine/tool side of things. He worked on some widely used libraries, mainly Bink 2 (video codec) and Granny 3D (3D animation) used in a ton of shipped games.
dundarious • today at 2:38 PM
He did middleware at RAD, home of a lot of good stuff, and worked directly on at least The Witness
The legendary games programmer thing is a meme.
Casey is professionally best known for his work at RAD game tools (a highly successful middleware provider for game development back in the day), not games he himself developed.
What he is most highly regarded for is his teaching, particularly the Handmade Hero series on YouTube, which various programmers directly attribute as being responsible for their own professional success to a large extent.
He did work on the video games Dungeon Siege and The Witness afaik, but that's not what he is known for.
He also made one of the fastest terminal emulators (refterm), purely out of spite, to show Microsoft they were full of shit in their answer to an issue he posted to the Windows Terminal github. This directly led to performance improvements in Windows Terminal.