Oct 19, 2026, 12:37 PMEvery project needs chickens and eggs, and the best way to get them is by playing some table tennis.
A new video about why video games take so long to build, conversations about concepts, and what you can do to have good iterations: https://youtu.be/6E9VyoHj8z0
Or read it here:
https://rystorm.com/blog/chickens-and-eggs-table-tennis
Oct 19, 2026, 12:59 PMMaking these short 5 minute videos still takes hours of work, but it's a nice change of pace between the 30 minute videos that take weeks or months of work.
There are also some topics, like this one, that are hard to fit into any other topic. So as an aside, I hope folks like it!
Oct 19, 2026, 7:33 PMBig thanks as well to Arvy for posting something that inspired me to dig into this further, a few months ago: https://bsky.app/profile/rystorm.com/post/3mqozbjznjk27
Oct 19, 2026, 7:33 PMI am very glad for the reception so far. I had a fear that programmers would heavily dislike my sketching of the situation, but everyone who has seen it so far understands the scope of the message!