Some interesting media to watch and to listen to this time. One short, one medium, and two long ones:

  • Wat, from 2012, is a four minute comedy show by Gary Bernhardt about the quirks of some programming languages.
  • The new video game documentary channel Pixel to Publish did a 25-minute video on how Factorio was made. It’s interesting with the ups and downs even if you haven’t played the game.
  • In a recent episode of the My Perfect Console podcast the host Simon Parkin talks with Andy Davidson, creator of Worms. Andy talks us through how the iconic game came to fruition and how he got a publishing deal with Team17 when he was just a teenager. This show lasts for some 90 minutes.
  • Google DeepMind just published a 1.5 hour documentary called The Thinking Game that details the story of Demis Hassabis, the founder of DeepMind, and how he set himself to “solving the AI” from early on, and how last year he got awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his and his team’s work in protein folding. An interesting tidbit of knowledge was that before his time in the university Hassabis worked briefly for Bullfrog, creating the AI of the hit game Theme Park.