--- title: "Video: (part 2a) Building a Go Game Engine with TDD and Pair Programming" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2012/6/26/video-part-2a-building-a-go-game-engine-with-tdd-and-pair-pr.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2012/6/26/video-part-2a-building-a-go-game-engine-with-tdd-and-pair-pr.html" published: "2012-06-26T20:06:42" updated: "2012-06-26T20:06:42" tags: ["Unit Testing", "video", "Raymond Lim"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I’ve put the whole list of continually updating videos on this Go game over here , so you can watch them form the beginning. There is still much to do, but this is starting to get fun! In this 30 minutes video, Raymond…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Video: (part 2a) Building a Go Game Engine with TDD and Pair Programming By Roy Osherove June 26, 2012 In [Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/unit-testing), [video](https://osherove.com/blog/category/video) **Historical article** · Originally published June 26, 2012; technical details may be outdated. I’ve [put the whole list of continually updating videos on this Go game over here](http://artofunittesting.com/), so you can watch them form the beginning. There is still much to do, but this is starting to get fun! In this 30 minutes video, [Raymond Lim](https://twitter.com/#!/rayylim) and I continue to work on the Go Game Engine, but this time we : - Start with some simple drawings of our wanted feature set, and create a simple backlog - We decide where we want to go next in terms of features - We start writing the feature that determines the winner of the game and “[komi](http://gobase.org/studying/rules/?id=6&ln=uk)” You might ask “why are you pairing with Raymond on this anyway?” It’s simple: Raymond was kind enough to send an email with a question about how to proceed in a specific part of his Go Engine, and in turn I felt it would make an interesting problem to solve as a pair. I did not know Raymond before, but I like to take a risk and meet someone new every once in a while, and pair with them on something I’ve never done before. This time I also got permission to record it. So there. [![](https://osherove.com/img/video/yt-fCgCp4Bc-Sc.jpg)Play videoTDD Pairing Session 2a: A Go Game Engine with Raymond Lim](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCgCp4Bc-Sc) - [#Raymond Lim](https://osherove.com/blog/tag/raymond-lim) ## More in Unit Testing [All posts in Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/unit-testing) - Jun 27, 2012 ### [Video: Part 2b : TDD and Pairing on a go engine with Raymond Lim](https://osherove.com/blog/2012/6/27/video-part-2b-tdd-and-pairing-on-a-go-engine-with-raymond-li.html) - Jun 26, 2012 ### [The future of Isolation frameworks, and how Moq isn't it (for now)](https://osherove.com/blog/2012/6/27/the-future-of-isolation-frameworks-and-how-moq-isnt-it-for-n.html) - Jun 26, 2012 ### [FakeItEasy or NSubstitute? 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