How Coding as a Kid Led to Making Path of Exile
Prior to co-creating Path of Exile, I had been doing hobby game development since age 7. In this video I describe my childhood and teenage years learning to program and offer some advice to parents who want to help nurture their kids' interest in coding.
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0:29 Amiga 500 Photo © Bill Bertram 2006, CC-BY-2.5
1:15 The Mystery of Silver Mountain by Chris Oxlade and Judy Tatchell, published in 1984 by Usborne Publishing Ltd.
2:02 AmigaBASIC Inside and Out by Hannes Rugheimer and Christian Spanik, published in 1988 by Abacus Software Inc.
2:39 King's Quest, published in 1984 by Sierra On-Line. Footage from
World of Longplays: • Amiga 500 Longplay [020] King's Quest: Que...
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4:14 Amiga Machine Language by Stefan Dittrich, published in 1988 by Abacus Software Inc.
4:21 Amiga Format issue 39 (October 1992), published by Future Publishing.
0:00 Introduction
0:25 My First Computer
2:28 Graphics Programming
5:08 Teenage PC Years
6:45 University
7:18 Path of Exile
8:07 Teaching Kids
9:44 Outro