#467 – Tim Sweeney: Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Future of Gaming

Tim Sweeney is a legendary video game programmer, founder and CEO
of Epic Games that created the Unreal Engine, Fortnite, Gears of
War, Unreal Tournament, and many other groundbreaking and
influential video games. Thank you for listening Check out our
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(00:00) - Introduction (08:25) - 10,000 hours programming (11:42) -
Advice for young programmers (19:54) - Video games in the 80s and
90s (22:02) - Epic Games origin story (34:40) - Indie game
development (40:34) - Unreal Engine (1:06:30) - Technical details
of Unreal Engine (1:11:23) - Constructive solid geometry (1:17:21)
- Dynamic lighting (1:21:51) - Volumetric fog (1:25:19) - John
Carmack (1:27:05) - Evolution of Unreal Engine (1:33:21) - Unreal
Engine 5 (1:44:32) - Creating realistic humans (1:53:41) - Lumen
global illumination (1:58:11) - Movies (2:12:53) - Simulating
reality (2:25:08) - Metaverse (2:27:44) - Fortnite (2:31:40) -
Scaling (2:47:04) - Game economies (2:48:33) - Standardizing the
Metaverse (2:56:46) - Verse programming language (3:18:19) -
Concurrency (3:25:56) - Unreal Engine 6 (3:30:34) - Indie game
developers (3:33:32) - Apple (3:48:12) - Epic Games Store (4:11:03)
- Future of gaming (4:17:03) - Greatest games ever made (4:22:39) -
GTA 6 and Rockstar Games (4:25:58) - Hope for the future PODCAST
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