1. Start Your 10000 Hours of
Making Games Now!!!

2. The Outliers
● Factors that affect
achievement
● Date of birth
● Location of birth
● Parents
● Socio-economic situation
of your era
● Culture
● Preparation – 10000 hours
of practice

3. 10000 Hours
● Magic number for true
expertise
● Magic number for greatness
● Rare cases for accomplishing
it in less time
● It's the thing you do that
makes you good
● Tremendous amount of time
● You can't do it alone
● Opportunities
● Under your control

4. Bill Joy
● Wrote a better UNIX code
● Wrote software that allows
you to access the internet
● Cofounded Sun
Microsystems, which
developed Java
● Comparable to Bill Gates in
Silicon Valley

5. Bill Joy's Story
● Math wiz
● University of Michigan opened
Computer Center in 1971
● Time sharing terminal
● Spent 8-10 hours of
programming throughout college
● System bug that allowed him to
sit on the terminal forever
● In graduate school, he was doing
it more
● Became proficient in his second
year in graduate school

6. The Beatles
● Started the British invasion to
US in 1964
● Very popular during 60s and
70s
● Changed the face of popular
music
● Released consecutive hit
albums
● Legendary band

7. The Beatles' Story
● Lennon and McCartney got
together in 1957
● Reached their greatest artistic
achievement in 10 years
● Hamburg, Germany 1960
● Nonstop striptease, nonstop rock
and roll
● Lots of alcohol, lots of women
● Played for 8 hours, 7 nights a
week
● By 1964, performed live 1200
times

8. Bill Gates
● College dropout
● Founded Microsoft
● Made the Windows operating
system
● Used to be the richest man
on earth

9. Bill Gates' Story
● Math wiz
●
8th
grade in Lakeside, started a
computer club in 1968
● Taught themselves programming
● Parents would raise money to
buy computing time
● C-Cubed, test their software in
exchange of computing time
● University of Washington
● 1971, Information Science Inc.
● 1500 hours of programming

10. Bill Gates' Story
● TRW called ISI for help with their
power station software
● 'Independent Study Project'
● John Norton
●
He spent his high school from 8th
grade with nonstop
programming
● Spent 7 years of programming
when he dropped out
● He is way past 10000 hours

11. What would you like to be?
10000 hour practice > Talent
A. Talent + 10000 hour practice
B. Talent
C. 10000 hour practice
D. no talent, no 10000 hour practice

12. In the games industry...
A regular guy/gal who made
games is much better than an
academically smart guy/gal

13. Start Your 10000 Hours of
Making Games Now!!!