Books Masters of Doom Hewlett and Packard. Jobs and Wozniak. Gates and Ballmer. High-tech success stories often revolve around a notable duo, and in the computer game industry, there is no more better-known story than that of id Software, creator of the Doom and Quake series of first-person
Books The Art of Darkwatch Written when I was still on twitter. I don’t know if it’s my lack of inspiration or the power of twitter, but lately most of my blog ideas have stemmed from twitter threads. The latest was a tweet lamenting the lack of
Books Console Wars The most entertaining part of Blake J. Harris’s Console Wars is the forward by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. That isn’t a knock on the book — the forward is just really entertaining banter. The rest of the book is entertaining, too, and
Software Lisp Led Me to Texas, Outer Space, and Game Development Occasionally, I see the question “What led you to gamedev?” (on twitter, for example). I didn’t start out as a game developer, but rather stumbled into it later in my career, so my default answer is that it’s because I worked at
Apps HyperBowl on the Small Screen Published earlier on Gamasutra and the Unity website. Game Data Publisher: Technicat, LLC (Fugu Games)Release Date: July 2009 (App Store) and May 2011 (Google Play)Number of Developers: 1 (not counting all the original HyperBowl developers)Number of Contractors: 0Length of Project: 6
Books How I Met Unity This is the preface I wrote for the first edition of my game programming book Learn Unity 4 for iOS Game Development. My preface was removed in the second edition, so here it is for posterity. Technically, I first started programming on a TRS-80
Books Slay the Dragon! I got around to reading Slay the Dragon! Writing Great Video Games a little while ago because I’m interested in writing, I work in game development, I met one of the authors when he was a producer at Crave Games and I worked