What I did at Recurse

I heard about The Recurse Center from a friend and applied with the hopes of exploring creative coding in a structured and social setting.

The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers based in New York City.

It turned out to be a fantastic decision. I learned a ton, made great friends and came out with the skills, knowledge and determination to pursue game development as a career.

I still hang out with the community on their servers :)

During my batch and a half which lasted 4.5 months I studied and worked on these things:

Game Development #

Games #

• Worked on the networking and shaders of ungroup (a multiplayer game with a custom engine). Pairing with friends helped a lot.
  

• Organized a game jam and made the first version of mimic with a friend.
  

• Worked a bit with a friend on their open-world unity game where you can freely talk to NPCs using a language system.
  

• Started a Game Dev Interest Group at RC with a friend which I still attend a year and a half later!

Graphics #

• Wrote a rasterizer from scratch with a friend using the Scratchapixel tutorial.
  

• Made an environment to implement solutions to 3D math problems in opengl for practice using learnopengl.com.
  

• Read through some of The Book of Shaders.
  

• Attending a raymarching workshop and implemented marching in PICO-8.
  

Math #

• Read through almost all of 3D math primer for graphics and game development and worked on the problems.

Unity #

• Worked through many of the Catlike Coding tutorials to gain a better understanding of Unity.

Creative Coding #

Livecoding #

• Created a livecoding environment in atom using hydra and p5 that produces typographic visuals from midi input.
  

• Messed around with TidalCycles and made a short procedural song.

Images #

* this post was created retroactively in june 2021