Vectors and Dot Product: Essential Math for Game Developers [Part 1]

Welcome to my four part lecture on essential math for game developers 💖 I hope you'll find this useful in your game dev journey!

This course will have assignments throughout, if you want to maximize your learning, I recommend doing them!

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00:00:00 - Intro
00:07:05 - Why math?
00:12:59 - 1D vectors
00:36:13 - 2D vectors
01:09:35 - Vector normalization
01:15:23 - Direction to point
01:23:11 - Length
01:31:49 - Distance
01:44:14 - Point along direction
02:00:45 - Radial trigger
02:26:21 - Dot product
02:44:30 - Examples from my game
03:03:13 - Assignments
03:03:29 - Asgmt. 1 (Radial trigger)
03:05:49 - Asgmt. 2 (Look-at trigger)
03:10:03 - Asgmt. 3 (Space transformation)

Assignments:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nou1ZAbNOkELggW9YqZ9LTRIW9Hc-isUpURbQ8gjiMM

Originally streamed as a course for students at http://futuregames.se/, who were super kind to let me both stream this live as well as upload it here! so massive thanks to the people at FutureGames!!

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