{"title": "Gamedev Makes You Better at Math", "timestamp": 1739281397.8769324, "description": "When I started with [Dani's Race](/games/Dani's_Race) I thought that the extend of my programming will be something like dynamically changing the speed of a car and maybe loading and unloading certain things on the map based on the distance from them. But quickly it became a mind-field of math and other programming cleverness. About which I will talk to you in this article", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film \"Moria's Race\" and the lead developer of it's game sequel \"Dani's Race\".\r\n\r\n[My Story](/about/who_is_blender_dumbass_)\r\n\r\nMore links to me ( view page source to see how I did those ):\r\n\r\n![internetarchive](https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22J.Y.Amihud%22) ![imdb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15214305) ![notabug](http://notabug.org/jyamihud) ![odysee](https://odysee.com/@blenderdumbass:f) ![codeberg](https://codeberg.org/blenderdumbass/)", "invited": ["AngryAlien", "Erwinjitsu", "trueauracoral", "Cricetus", "elban", "Troler", "johny", "RowdyJoe", "adgbeveridge", "doublelion", "alkyilcycloalke", "jedi66", "WanchaiMike", "Trolli123", "ddd", "ByteBlast", "dolphinana", "Madiator2011", "Uriel_Cohen", "mk-la", "TestUser", "Mr._MotherFucker", "MorsMortium", "cptbichez", "dbbs", "Xavi", "test", "Ozoned", "Tcll", "FranzoPow"], "invited_by": "blenderdumbass", "title": "Blender Dumbass", "website": "blenderdumbass.org", "mastodon": "@blenderdumbass@mastodon.online", "username": "blenderdumbass", "activity_pub": {"pub": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAupr+zzHFZXpPvayAbk8R\na3Yp2k+ymoI6IbfMkekWv5rTjrCBQRa1tcoy8o1cgxdFo/QYPb++s8+q4R/Xl4zV\nvSp40z1M6tI7zDQZv4BGInEqKgLpR5ahjqYVL4GVpYaw+FfQ3tc0J9Ui8/y/3HBX\nN5YzyaOpp0oxEW+tnnDHhHZSQ7G32MMWVL5DIZZKEAqxdgtw1s3sa2iAqcb3TSib\nCA1OvYQmPOicQS07/CVY+1OwKVKKV7CPNFk4SBYyCZ/CyC3Uujngl05jw9TpVR7T\n0WwVFijfMSSVFiBQmOQLFG0e4g8/XP+HvKDD8dB1PwreEAq+jrOBv6GvOgMOlGxi\nOQIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n"}, "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/account/blenderdumbass"}, "thumbnail": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/thumbs/gamedev_math.png", "license": "cc-by-sa", "views": {"amount": 135, "dates": {"2025-02-11": 36, "2025-02-12": 13, "2025-02-13": 2, "2025-02-14": 4, "2025-02-18": 1, "2025-02-24": 2, "2025-02-27": 1, "2025-02-28": 1, "2025-03-03": 1, "2025-03-06": 1, "2025-03-09": 1, "2025-03-10": 1, "2025-03-11": 1, "2025-03-12": 1, "2025-03-14": 1, "2025-03-15": 1, "2025-03-18": 1, "2025-03-21": 1, "2025-03-23": 2, "2025-03-24": 2, "2025-03-27": 1, "2025-03-29": 1, "2025-04-01": 1, "2025-04-09": 1, "2025-04-10": 1, "2025-04-11": 1, "2025-04-17": 1, "2025-04-20": 1, "2025-04-22": 1, "2025-04-23": 1, "2025-04-25": 2, "2025-04-27": 3, "2025-05-03": 2, "2025-05-06": 2, "2025-05-12": 1, "2025-05-14": 2, "2025-05-15": 1, "2025-05-16": 6, "2025-05-25": 1, "2025-05-29": 1, "2025-06-10": 1, "2025-06-11": 1, "2025-06-30": 3, "2025-07-04": 1, "2025-07-11": 7, "2025-07-20": 3, "2025-07-21": 1, "2025-07-23": 1, "2025-07-30": 1, "2025-11-02": 1, "2025-12-05": 1, "2025-12-26": 1, "2026-01-07": 1, "2026-01-15": 1, "2026-01-27": 1, "2026-03-13": 1, "2026-03-25": 1, "2026-04-30": 1, "2026-05-02": 1, "2026-05-18": 1}}, "recording": "https://archive.org/download/gamedev-makes-you-better-at-math/Gamedev_Makes_You_Better_at_Math.ogg", "comments": {"comments": [{"text": "2pi is not 180 degrees, rather 360, due to pi being equal to 180!", "username": "Anonymous Guest"}, {"text": "What was written is true, if a game developer such as Freya Holm\u00e9r can, without any academic background, dig into the weeds of vectors, then any dev can, willing he is to embrace the unknown. ", "username": "Anonymous Guest"}, {"text": "c:0\r\n\r\n@Anonymous Guest Patched, lol. Thank you for noticing. ", "username": "blenderdumbass"}, {"text": "c:2\r\n\r\n@blenderdumbass \r\n\r\nDid you?", "username": "ANONYMOUS"}]}, "hashtags": ["Gamedev", "DanisRace", "Math", "Programming", "Python", "UPBGE", "Blender3d", "GNU", "Linux", "GamingOnLinux", "FreeSoftware", "OpenSource"], "not_ai_proof": "https://peer.madiator.cloud/w/nu3sX9p99VYQg2WwQuDA9p", "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/gamedev_make_you_better_at_math"}