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The Homegames Podcast

132 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago -

Joseph & Yazeed give monthly updates on Homegames - an open source game platform.

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Episodes

Episode 129: Literally 1984

October 15, 2023 01:00 - 1 hour - 71.7 MB

Joseph & Yazeed return from their hiatus to talk about fatherhood, physical media, the Homegames desktop app & more!

Episode 128: Coding Cowboys

July 04, 2023 23:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about Joseph's game Vegas Trail as well as updates for our newest release of Homegames. They also talk about the death of rap music, the nature of cringe, and plans for the future.

Episode 127: The Chomp

May 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about whether we live in a dystopia, the most amazing technology we've seen in our lifetimes, and the state of Homegames. 

Episode 126: In This Economy?

March 27, 2023 02:00 - 1 hour - 57.8 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about ChatGPT, Joseph's experience at an NFT museum, capitalism & more!

Episode 125: Truck Competition

February 13, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB

Joseph switched to Linux, Yazeed switched to iOS. Joseph & Yazeed talk about stoicism.  Homegames continues to exist. Apologies for the camera audio. Our mic audio was unusable.

Episode 124: Zero Index Dot Length

January 04, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about 50 Cent vs. Kanye, chess boxing, progress we made on Homegames over the break, and some changes to the podcast. Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 123: Homepad

December 21, 2022 08:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB

Joseph & Yazeed reflect on 2022 and talk about Joseph's progress on Homepad - a gamepad library for Homegames

Episode 122: TCP-Ness

December 07, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 47.8 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about bugs, network performance, Spotify Wrapped and more.  Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 121: A Programmer's Yarn

November 23, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about the state of public games, collision detection performance, data collection and more! Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 120: Public Games

November 09, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 4 MB

Joseph gives a quick update on the state of public games in Homegames. Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 119: Bust it In

October 26, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about public Homegames instances and collision detection. Recorded October 24, 2022

Episode 118: Demonstration of Music

October 12, 2022 07:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about a Pusha T concert, Joseph's video on Sponge, and a timeline for version 1.0 of Homegames. Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 117: Age and Mature

September 28, 2022 07:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about hackathons, “art,” sponge mommies, Squarer remastered and more

Episode 116: Fake Math

September 14, 2022 07:00 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about Flash games, speedrunning, Joseph's implementation of Pong, and more! Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 115: What Happened to Var?

August 31, 2022 07:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MB

Joseph & Yazeed argue about TypeScript and talk about Squarer & Pong. 

Episode 114: Why it Sucks

August 17, 2022 07:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MB

Joseph & Senovia talk about Joseph's recently scrapped project and what's next for Homegames.

Episode 113: Floor Thinking

August 03, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about Cities: Skylines, Joseph's first two-hour game, and more. 

Episode 112: Building the Rabbit Hole

July 20, 2022 07:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about pop culture, some recent Homegames updates and our plans for the rest of 2022. Check us out at homegames.io!

Episode 111: Big Red Button

July 06, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MB

Joseph, Yazeed and (technically) JC celebrate our first "official" release and talk about the future of Homegames!

Episode 110: 16,155

June 22, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about home defense robots, some Homegames repository data, and plans for the final two weeks before our launch. Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 109: Spritz of Budweiser

June 08, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about the state of homegames a month before our first “official” release and reflect on the past 4 years of homegames. 

Episode 108: Sheeesh

May 25, 2022 07:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about facial hair, learning Spanish, and the current state of Homegames.

Episode 107: Pastel America

May 11, 2022 07:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about Joseph's progress on rewriting Homegames core as well as trading cards & NFTs.

Episode 106: Uncut JavaScript

April 27, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about the current state of the Homegames dashboard as well as NFTs, thoughts on different programming languages and more

Episode 105: Code Flavor

April 13, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about project management styles, our Landlord & Homedome services, and "code flavor"

Episode 104: Matte Finish

March 30, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about their experience at the Benny the Butcher concert as well as progress on game publishing & our plans before we launch our beta in July.  Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 103: Red Octobers

March 16, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 48.2 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about goals of the podcast after we launch our beta. They also talk about frame rate vs. game rate and expensive sneakers.

Episode 102: Sprinkles on a Soft Summer Day

March 02, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about green screens, the Homegames color scheme, some updates on our catalog API, Kanye’s Netflix documentary and more!

Episode 101: Stunt 101

February 16, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about progress on our catalog service, the idea of a Homegames public beta, and Joe Rogan. 

Episode 100: Field Day

February 02, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MB

Joseph, Yazeed & Senovia reflect on our first 100 episodes and talk about the next 100

Episode 99: Blow This Pop Stand

January 19, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MB

Joseph & Yazeed celebrate our (technically) 100th episode by talking about our AWS infrastructure, Yazeed's thoughts on Joseph's latest batch of code changes, and a bit of a deep dive into how we use DynamoDB. 

Episode 98: Views

January 05, 2022 08:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB

Joseph & Yazeed kick off 2022 by talking about our new dashboard and the system that powers it, as well as some ideas for dependency management. 

Episode 97: Zamboned

December 22, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MB

Joseph & Yazeed wrap up 2021 by discussing the state of Homegames, our 2022 goals, and our Spotify wrapped.

Episode 96: Complexify

December 08, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about Joseph's progress on our new "view" interface as well as our Homegames plans for the rest of 2021. Joseph continues to be a mess.

Episode 95: Gobble Gobble Turkey Time

November 24, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MB

Joseph & Yazeed take a break from the usual format to talk about Thanksgiving, Fallout: New Vegas, and Joseph's hatred of video games.

Episode 94: Fever Dream

November 10, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

Yazeed is joined by sick Joseph to discuss game-building interfaces, refactoring & more Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 93: Atomicity

October 27, 2021 07:00 - 39 minutes - 27.5 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about Joseph's progress on the rewrite, common libraries, "developer words" and more! Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 92: Slaw Bunnies

October 13, 2021 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MB

Joseph & Yazeed read some emails & talk about client-side animations, data transformation and our AWS bills.

Episode 91: Keep it a Buck

September 29, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about test-driven development, the current state of the Squisher rewrite, Joseph's most recent mental breakdown and more!

Episode 90: Knee-Deep in Squish

September 15, 2021 07:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about backwards compatibility, "layers" in Squish, developer tools and more.

Episode 89: Squish Work

September 01, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about rewriting code, documentation & geometry.  Check us out at homegames.io 

Episode 88: Mr. Worldwide

August 18, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about Unicode support, Yazeed's continued TypeScript-ification of core Homegames components, and Joseph's plans for the rest of the year.

Episode 87: The Big Hippie Dream

August 04, 2021 07:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about game sharing, Yazeed talks about struggling with Joseph's bad code, Joseph has a mental breakdown over our AWS bill and more!

Episode 86: Atomic Unit

July 21, 2021 07:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about Joseph’s bad management skills, Homedome progress, documentation and more! Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 85: The Cursed Episode

July 07, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutes - 37.5 MB

Yazeed forgot half of our audio equipment and Joseph's computer crashed during the creation of episode. Despite these facts, Joseph & Yazeed talk about edge cases in the Homegames Locker service, infrastructure goals & general code practice.  

Episode 84: Fun Facts

June 23, 2021 07:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about searching tags, Yazeed's "Who Tweeted that Tweet?" game, Joseph's struggle with deploying Homedome on AWS Lambda & more! Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 83: The Bone Zone

June 09, 2021 07:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about tags - including how they work & who has the power to delete them. They also talk about ideas for the Homegames locker service - a service responsible for securing sensitive data. Check us out at homegames.io

Episode 82: Ladies & Germs

May 26, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about code reviews, search functionality, constraints on terrain generation & more!

Episode 81: Scraping Cheeto Dust Off Of Your Finger With Your Teeth

May 12, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MB

Joseph & Yazeed talk about Elasticsearch & some changes to the podcast

Episode 80: That Day Was Me

May 05, 2021 07:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MB

Joseph attempts to salvage a lost podcast episode. Check us out at homegames.io