Pilot: A Game Show for Developers - Leet Heat S1E1

[@WesBos]

Damn this is fantastic - great pace, hilarious and educational all in one. Nice work.

[@learnwithjason]

thank you so much! took lots of notes on how we can make future episodes even better 💜

[@WesBos]

@@learnwithjason needs to be significantly spicier. Cholula at a level 3?!

[@learnwithjason]

haha I know, I'm sorry. I have a new rack of sauces that are SIGNIFICANTLY more aggressive for future episodes

[@TattooGamerGuy]

@@learnwithjason The potential for this show is amazing. You have a chance to be on the ground floor of an entirely new genre of entertainment. Developers are itching at a chance to show the world thier abilties. Im a new developer as well, this kind of content is amazing. Id love to help any way I can with this.

[@coreydevs]

This is how companies should interview candidates

[@pixieshine77]

if you could leave the code snippets up for just a little bit longer with editing magic or whatever it would be more fun to play along!

[@afarber87]

Right. Jeopardy displays the question, giving enough time to consider the question. Maybe a few second delay before one can buzz in.

[@learnwithjason]

good notes - I'll see if we can tweak the timing a bit

[@EdFryed]

yer i had to pause every question just to understand what was happening / play along. awesome idea but the beauty of game shows is letting the viewer play along at home. Also i want to see the hot sauce having an effect on the players. more hot sauce.

[@ShengSlogar]

19:42 "so how do you know Mark?" This was so much fun, thanks for having me! Massive shoutout to cast and crew and JASON for making this such a blast 🙌

[@learnwithjason]

thank you for being part of this! 💜💜💜

[@JacobBolda]

Representing MKE! Great job!

[@ShengSlogar]

@@JacobBolda 🫡

[@donniedamato]

This is a good start, I think there's some small improvements to make here. The introduction only said getting questions wrong will "face the heat". It doesn't speak about how the wheel could also cause heat, either by landing on the black region or by landing on a region that no longer has questions. It might be ok to explain that a person who correctly answers can choose to stay on the category or dare to spin. Again, daring to spin doesn't seem like a dare until you realize that they could land on the region causing heat. After the first "heat", the pepper emoji counter didn't increase until Sheng got the first wrong question. It might be better to start the counter at 0 so that it counts the number of "heat" they have endured (questions answered incorrectly). Zero-index is probably better for a dev show anyway. ;) Then it was confusing that after getting the question wrong, they didn't have to take the "heat". They just had the counter go up. I was expecting them to take another bite of something. I was also surprised that the person that got the question wrong had the ability to stay or spin. My expectation would be that their opponent would now have control as a penalty. I realized later that the wheel determines WHEN they eat, the wrong questions increase the heat of the bite. It would be clear if the wheel said "Take the heat" (take a bite) on spaces where they were meant to do this; including updating spaces where questions were exhausted. There were some typos in the multiple choice, I was also thrown off by OPTIONS not being visible in the choices but being chosen by a contestant.

[@learnwithjason]

all great feedback, thank you! I ended up changing the bites to be on wrong answers in ep 2 because I felt the same way you did on watching this back triple checking questions and spelling is on my list now, too. great idea about zero indexing! 😆

[@buildervision7082]

Woww a gameshow for dev... What a time to be alive!

[@learnwithjason]

🔥🔥🔥

[@simeonGriggs]

Great episode! Just would've liked some banter to find out a little more about the contestants...

[@learnwithjason]

agreed - I realized we forgot that AFTER we cut 🙃

[@simeonGriggs]

@ will only get better 👊

[@shad-intech]

I don't know what was better the commercials or the game. Loved them all.

[@learnwithjason]

we had so much fun with the commercials 😅

[@Prodigal0961]

This is different! What a great way to learn even for us senior+ devs.

[@ryandotfurrer]

Everything about this was killer. Mark as the host, the set, the music, the commercials. This was great dude, I’m excited to see how it evolves Only bit I can comment on is I’d like is to at least learn who the contestants are, where they’re from, what they do, etc. before they begin playing. And the host! I mean, we all know Mark but still 😂

[@learnwithjason]

yes, that's a great note. we realized after we cut that we forgot to do a "meet the contestants" segment 😅

[@ryandotfurrer]

@ ha! I figured you were on it

[@david_chuka]

19:26 Sheng:"how hot do these go?" Mark: "9.....thousand?" 😂😂😂

[@marcusotter]

Love the idea! The pacing felt a bit rushed, like others have mentioned, stuff like introducing the host & players, giving us more time to read the questions, and explaining the answers a bit would be nice for the tempo I think. You do this really well in your Web Dev Challenges! Them getting to spin their own wheel manually feels a bit like cheating, like at 17:50 Sheng easily avoids the heat with a very calculated spin 😄Maybe there could be a rule that it needs to spin at least two full revolutions or something. Another thing I thought about, it rarely feels worth to let the other person stay in a category (and to me just took some unnecessary time after each question), since if you make them spin there's a chance they get heat. The commercials and questions were great, especially the ramping up of difficulty was nice. I know you'll have this down to a T in a few episodes, keep it up 👏

[@learnwithjason]

this is all great feedback, thank you! I agree that we need to tweak the spin mechanic a bit. we’ve got ideas that will show up in ep 3

[@joesyte]

Something worth the time and seasons to come! This is what we have been waiting for, such a good initiative from the team!

[@learnwithjason]

thank you! I'm so happy you're enjoying this - it was SO FUN to make 💜

[@KevinPowell]

This was great! Looking forward to more episodes :)

[@learnwithjason]

thank you so much! more episodes on the way 🫡

[@nate_codes]

Incredible work! I love the concept, y'all CRUSHED it on execution, and a good blend of questions and topics. However, calling Cholula "Spice level 3" (4:39) is criminal, it's basically 0 heat seasoning...I think Sheng must have paid off production >.>

[@learnwithjason]

looooool this will be corrected in episode 3 and beyond. for the first 2 I was working off a limited set 😅

[@ShengSlogar]

😆 i'll have you know i had an out-of-body experience near the end, @learnwithjason roll the bloopers!

[@TheFern2]

Louisiana sauce will be level 4 lmao, great show, need to see a bit more of the heat build up process after they eat it though

[@erinmikail]

obsessed. Simply obsessed. thank you Jason for bringing yet another banger to our screens.

[@learnwithjason]

thanks so much Erin! 💜

[@thinkoffbeat]

Sheng over here spinning databases like its going out of style!!!

[@learnwithjason]

just RIPPING through that category

[@ShengSlogar]

if my team sees I got that NoSQL question wrong my ass is toast

[@learnwithjason]

@@ShengSlogar 💀

[@jeffreyhartman1633]

That was nerdy as hell, I loved it. Def need to up the spice level, give em the Hot Ones sauces and maybe you'll get a sponsership lol

[@learnwithjason]

yeah, a big takeaway was that I was WAY too nice with the spice levels 😆

[@JoelMartinez]

These commercials are epic!

[@learnwithjason]

we had so much dang fun making these

[@MichaelBTech]

This was so good! Great concept. Looking forward for more!

[@learnwithjason]

thank you so much! more on the way!

[@nununm3199]

the production is crazy keep going with amazing content

[@learnwithjason]

thank you so much!

[@RobertGroves]

The end of November and first half of December has been such a whirlwind for me... how did I miss the submission period for this. Dang! I feel like I need to go take a level 10 heat Dino Nugget for getting that wrong. I'm so envious of how much fun this looks like it was to do; but I'm not jealous of how much work went in to taking it from concept to reality. Congrats Jason and crew, y'all did it! Great job and it's only gonna get better. Looking forward to more. 🔥🥵🔥 If you want another game mechanic suggestion, hear me out on this... for each correct question a contestant gets a Bit; when they get 8-bits its a Byte; Bytes can be used by a contestant to avoid a Leet Heat bite and make their opponent take it instead; But if they choose to not use their collected Bytes, they convert to some point value at the end that gets added to the contestant's score.

[@learnwithjason]

thanks so much! the bits/bytes idea is fun! in early testing I experimented with something similar, but it ended up being a little confusing to track, so we simplified. I'll keep it in the back pocket as we keep refining, though!

[@TayambaMwanza]

Ay Mark nice one!

[@lucasneves7669]

This is awesome!! I'm excited for the next ones! This is too dang cool!! Thank you all the programers behind this show!🎉

[@learnwithjason]

thank you for watching!

[@ezekielthemack]

This was excellent. Well executed, entertaining and VERY engaging. More please!!

[@learnwithjason]

thank you so much! more on the way 💜

[@BrandonRobertsDev]

I could see this show spinning off so many ways. More! 🔥

[@learnwithjason]

are you going to come play this game? 👀

[@mkitche3]

Loved this to death, can't wait to see more!

[@learnwithjason]

thank you! 💜

[@diegogoethals2516]

This was so much more educational and fun then I honestly expected beforehand and I already expected it both to be quite amazing

[@learnwithjason]

this means a lot to hear, thank you so much!

[@ketsyprophete]

I loved every moment of this...Can't wait for the next one!!🎉

[@learnwithjason]

thank you! more coming early next year

[@amanranjan7825]

I am glad that i subscribed this channel ❤

[@learnwithjason]

thank you for subbing!

[@jamesmarx]

Great idea Jason. Love it!

[@learnwithjason]

thanks so much!

[@TattooGamerGuy]

Love the show, cant wait to see what it evolves into

[@learnwithjason]

thank you! I've got my doc going with ideas to make it better in future episodes. excited to test out some tweaks and improvements!

[@TattooGamerGuy]

@@learnwithjason I could definitely see this turning into a whole new genre of entertainment. The hunger that new developers have to network makes this an insane market

[@trevorphilbrick4074]

Killer first episode!

[@learnwithjason]

thank you!

[@shrutikapoor08]

How fun is this!

[@ShengSlogar]

👁👄👁

[@learnwithjason]

so fun! but is it the MOST fun? I guess we'll just have to tune in for episode 2 and find out 😆

[@shrutikapoor08]

@ I guess we will find out!

[@uCodes880]

Another masterpiece series, Jason be doing the most❤🙏🎉

[@learnwithjason]

thank you!

[@MatiasBaldanza]

Hey! At 4:49 you edited out the outcome of Sheng's encounter with level-3 heat! Must have been spicy! 🔥🔥🔥

[@learnwithjason]

ha! yeah, realizing now that we should spend more time on the aftermath of the bites

[@ifoxyprime]

Really enjoyed this❤

[@learnwithjason]

thanks so much for watching!

[@matomemaponya]

Insane video🔥

[@learnwithjason]

thanks!

[@code_kage_247]

Loving it, great content

[@learnwithjason]

thank you so much!

[@colbyfayock]

so good, nice one on all fronts

[@learnwithjason]

thank you Colby!

[@balogungbenga7041]

Man, I just have to say this is beyond great. Thanks for sharing this

[@learnwithjason]

thank you for watching!

[@SenthilkumarDeivasigamani]

Thank you Jason

[@learnwithjason]

thanks for watching!

[@sasquatch_devs]

Woah, this is great!

[@learnwithjason]

thank you!

[@katlegolionel1174]

This us such a great show, very enjoyable

[@learnwithjason]

thank you! 💜

[@DarshakParikh]

[1988] "Annie, are you okay?" [2024] Annie: "Are you okay?"

[@StayMellowBeEasy]

Love this! Y’all need to partner up with Hot Ones sauces on this one. Cholula for level 3? Bring the heat!

[@learnwithjason]

new sauces will show up in ep 3 and beyond that are a little bit less nice 👀

[@BolajiAyodeji]

This is such a great concept! Loved every bit of it and the commercial break tips! Great work on the shoot and editing, team! Would be nice to get to know the contestants a bit and maybe make it much spicier. They had no expression that it was really hot even as the level got higher 😅, making the “heat” section less interesting. It would probably also be nice to have a prize they’re competing for to make it even more fun (+ in between stories of what that price means for them and why they want it that bad or so).

[@learnwithjason]

fantastic ideas here. thank you!

[@ryanlynch2674]

Absolutely loved this! Fun idea, great execution! Would appreciate if the questions stayed on screen for a couple of moments though so we could play along. A few pieces of code were gone before I could read them and it pulls you out a bit having to pause so much

[@learnwithjason]

this us a good call. I took a note for future episodes 💜

[@davonne007]

Love this, great idea..! I’m over here testing my own knowledge. 😂

[@learnwithjason]

love it!

[@carnagebfr]

Keep the episodes coming

[@learnwithjason]

🫡

[@ThomasSerio]

Really liked this. Not sure if it's possible with that board, but could you place a leet heat card or sticker over the categories once they are done?

[@learnwithjason]

YES! you'll see my (absolutely terrible) workaround for this in episode 2, and then we'll solve it for real in episode 3 😆

[@Munch_92]

I think they where making rules up as they went along, but thats what a Pilot is for I suppose. Good laugh.

[@learnwithjason]

we were definitely figuring things out as we went 😅 thank you!

[@wesleycoder]

I really like this format

[@learnwithjason]

thank you!

[@ScottStewartWebDev]

Super creative. Fun idea. Great breaking news. As a pilot episode: nailed it.

[@learnwithjason]

we had so much fun doing the news 😆 thank you!

[@ScottStewartWebDev]

it shows! Robot sack head on the catfisher made me LOL

[@sudhansubhushanmishra]

Absolutely enjoyed it. Great concept!

[@learnwithjason]

thank you!

[@marwen_dev]

Congratulations 🎉 This is truly fantastic! Great work

[@learnwithjason]

I really appreciate it, thank you so much!

[@egekara684]

looks fun

[@learnwithjason]

I hope it's as fun to watch as it was to make!

[@dontaskmewhatogudimeans282]

Amazing work from the team, please keep rolling them out… and the host is very good. But, I would like to make a suggestion; how about when the questions of a given category is exhausted, we indicate it on the spinner. This will allow more engagement and tracking of the contestants AND the viewers. Thank you.

[@learnwithjason]

excellent idea. I'm working on something to solve this better going forward (don't judge me by ep 2 - we... made some choices lol)

[@alexscorer1]

Interesting ! - thanks for keeping it beginner friendly =)) .. since this is the pilot .. here are my ideas that come to mind while watching: 1) Put the moderator between the contestants (like family feud) 2) have a girl turn the wheel.. now your audience ;D 3) This screams for a collaboration with "Hot Ones" .. also 4) Chicken wings > Chickennuggets. 5) I'd suggest putting a board of chickenwings in the middle.. with increasing heat (see hot ones) .. then with wrong answers you take turns.. and the heat gets worse.. 6) Consider making it teams from time-to-time (family feud).. also good to invite creators in the space and get eyeballs.. What do you think about those ideas? :D Looking forward to more..

[@learnwithjason]

team-based could be a lot of fun 👀

[@jasminepvodev]

Whoever thought of this is absolutely genius and Mark makes the perfect host! My question is, what does the winner get?

[@learnwithjason]

thank you! I couldn't imagine anyone but Mark hosting this. right now the winner gets bragging rights (and probably a tummyache) but I'm scheming something up - stay tuned 👀

[@hemantsaini3304]

From Starting I was with Austin and somehow he bounce back in the middle of the game. Nice Game 🔥🥵

[@didier2839]

This is awesome!

[@chrisjarvis1374]

Great show.

[@learnwithjason]

thank you!

[@nooobdev1]

Love this !

[@CodingMountainMan]

Well done!

[@learnwithjason]

thanks so much!

[@techgirl1908]

LOVE!!!!

[@borfast]

Good stuff. I would just argue that this is "A Game Show for *Javascript* developers" (unless you're planning on doing other episodes focused on other technologies), and that the questions in the computer science category are not really computer science questions. Software development is a lot bigger than JS and React.

[@learnwithjason]

categories will span all of web dev. we definitely came out of the gate JS-heavy, though

[@optimus_cruz]

You gotta quiz 'em and feed 'em

[@X21XXI]

Omg I love this!!!!!

[@learnwithjason]

thank you!

[@matthewm1963]

This was really great! Surprised web dev takes so well to this format. For the question about what color does this text render, it's actually green! I would have put my money on black ...

[@learnwithjason]

I would have just taken the spicy bite, tbh 😆

[@jmon24ify]

This was fun! Got most correct and learn something new. Though I would have purposely kept choosing the spicy food section just to eat more food.

[@learnwithjason]

ha! we're making some tweaks to increase the number of spicy bites

[@isaacdruin]

A little bit more time talking about the answers would have been good, I think!

[@learnwithjason]

can you say more? like, explaining the answers? or something else?

[@CorneliusRoemer]

The answer for the NoSQL table question was never given for example

[@nonstopper]

Great stuff

[@r-i-ch]

Forget Spicy, let’s see some Jaeger Shots!

[@AbdulhameedAlli-Shittu]

Nice content from JSON 🎉💯

[@CooperNkosi]

OMG THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!!!!!!!!!😭😭😭

[@learnwithjason]

I'm so happy I get to share this one! more soon!

[@leanprogrammer]

This is genius! 😁

[@learnwithjason]

💜💜💜

[@andyjiang]

love it!!!

[@learnwithjason]

thanks so much Andy!

[@MarcusWieland-vp5ec]

Hey…… I know Sheng….. lol

[@ShengSlogar]

sup Marcus!

[@vishsingh7235]

That was amazing! So, who moves onto the 2nd round interview?

[@learnwithjason]

...you just gave me a great idea 👀

[@vishsingh7235]

@@learnwithjason I'm a little afraid... ;)

[@ianraphael8968]

Not the breaking news segment🤣🤣had me on the floor

[@learnwithjason]

we had so much dang fun with that

[@taofeekob]

Missed a question. The Mongodb equivalent for sql table

[@WesBos]

This one got me too - a document is equivalent to a Row, while a *Collection* is like a table

[@learnwithjason]

oh no! 😅 making a big list of notes to improve future episodes

[@gibrains]

lovely, please do algorithm problems 🎉

[@learnwithjason]

I was thinking about this - how would we do algorithms in this style? giving people code challenges doesn't fit this format well

[@CodingWithMrM]

I love it😊

[@learnwithjason]

thanks so much! 💜💜

[@neeshsamsi]

Missed the opportunity for “Vite like Heat”

[@learnwithjason]

oh dang, Mark we messed up 😆

[@marktechson]

How did I miss this??!!

[@questionablecommands9423]

Ah. Man. S1E1? Rookie move unless you're only planning 9 seasons with 9 episodes and I'm rooting for more than that, man. I'm rooting for more success than that.

[@learnwithjason]

💜💜💜💜

[@questionablecommands9423]

@learnwithjason 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

[@nelsonedson]

I just missed some of the show format characteristics... Not presenting the host or the participants, stuff like that but overall, love it!

[@learnwithjason]

thank you! we'll improve this for future episodes

[@rikdeek]

S'nice, more please! ⌨️🧠🏆

[@learnwithjason]

🫡 on it

[@pixieshine77]

I like this, ship it

[@learnwithjason]

thank you!

[@markcasiano6501]

lol, the commercials.

[@learnwithjason]

these were so much fun to make 😆

[@r-i-ch]

Maybe add a sticker to the wheel when a category is used up?

[@learnwithjason]

agreed. we're getting that sorted for future episodes (well, not episode 2 - you'll see the terrible choice I made for that one soon 😅)

[@BraydonCoyer]

New obsession

[@learnwithjason]

💜

[@trsofttech5147]

great gameshow very entertaining

[@learnwithjason]

thank you!

[@SiviweXakaza]

Loved this. Cant wait to see some react questions in future episodes

[@learnwithjason]

episode 2 will have you covered 🫡

[@ronakronu]

commercials are

[@learnwithjason]

thank you!

[@neke989]

Losing it at the position: absolute commercial 🤣

[@learnwithjason]

when Annie pitched that one I was rolling 😆

[@ramb0lxmb]

Now I will always wonder how we check to see who logged in after today with >=

[@abdullahmomoh4653]

Even in spinning the wheel, devs are trying to be efficient and optimize the results 😅😅

[@learnwithjason]

it’s our way

[@jimsvolt]

This is interesting...but keep the snippets and qns for a bit longer😭

[@learnwithjason]

noted. we're working on some tweaks for future episodes!

[@jimsvolt]

@learnwithjason brilliant...looking foward🔥

[@AriJankelowitz]

Love this idea ❤What is the hot sauce you're using?

[@learnwithjason]

we used an assortment of things I had in my fridge 😆 for future episodes we’ll have a full list available

[@AriJankelowitz]

@@learnwithjason nice! Always on the lookout for some quality hot sauce. 🔥