Building Rawbots - A Sandbox Robot Crafting MMORPG w/ CEO Neil Haran

Neil Haran is CEO of Rawbots, an online sandbox game where players can build and enhance their own robots as they explore the online universe. More than that, the game will enable players to learn concepts as they create and figure how to venture out into different planets and environments as a new category of "play-to-learn". In this episode Neil talks with Sasha about: 

• Originally wanting to be a pilot

• Building a game with educational value

• The most important thing to focus on when building compelling gaming experiences

• Can you build a sandbox game together with a community?

• Making education more personalized with web3 gaming

• The Unreal engine and the features and capabilities it enables

• Words of wisdom he'd give someone who's thinking of joining web3

Episode links:

Rawbots: https://www.rawbots.org/

Neil Haran: https://twitter.com/realneilharan

Rawbots Discord: https://discord.gg/KZXqDAfDbv

[Textbook] Game Programming Gems by Mark DeLoura: https://www.amazon.ca/Game-Programming-Gems-Mark-DeLoura/dp/1584500492

[Textbook] Multiplayer Game Programming by Todd Barron: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/multiplayer-game-programming-wcd-prima-techs-game-development_todd-barron/772443/

[Textbook] Black Belt C++ by Bruce Eckel: https://www.amazon.ca/Black-Belt-C-Masters-Collection/dp/1558513345