other / built
Pascal
“I built a programming language and a full compiler for a language like Pascal because I didn’t know where you went to buy one of those.”
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Tim Sweeney
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other / built
Fortnite
“Our aim for that is with Epic online services, and the social systems that we built for Fortnite opened up to all developers to have cross-platform social features be super easy and free for all developers.”
other / built
Unreal Engine
“Do you just forget about it when you actually go off to do work or do you write down equations on paper? It was actually not clear as an early engineering student what you do, but when I started writing the first generation Unreal Engine and I was dealing with 3DMS, I was like, wait, I know this stuff.”
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01 / evaluation
In the course of building Fortnite, we’ve built a lot of other tools. They’re useful for us too because it’s not just a game powered by Unreal Engine, but it’s also a social ecosystem where people can make friends and voice chat and get together and party.
“In the course of building Fortnite, we’ve built a lot of other tools. They’re useful for us too because it’s not just a game powered by Unreal Engine, but it’s also a social ecosystem where people can make friends and voice chat and get together and party.”
- Speaker
- Tim Sweeney
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
02 / evaluation
We’ve been able to survive every financial downturn, and sometimes the engine’s been funding the business because we didn’t have a game.
“We’ve been able to survive every financial downturn, and sometimes the engine’s been funding the business because we didn’t have a game.”
- Speaker
- Tim Sweeney
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
03 / evaluation
If you have a 16 core CPU, we’re using one core for game simulation and running with the complicated game logic because single-threaded programming is orders of magnitude easier than multi-threaded programming.
“If you have a 16 core CPU, we’re using one core for game simulation and running with the complicated game logic because single-threaded programming is orders of magnitude easier than multi-threaded programming.”
- Speaker
- Tim Sweeney
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast