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Why We Sleep

Ironically, I found Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep a bit of a snooze. It's one of those books that took me a long time to finish because I kept nodding off every couple of pages. It's partly because it cites study after study, which sounds good for science, but also,

Wikipedia

My latest distraction was a three-day wikipedia editing binge. It's addictive: you see something to fix, then see some interesting related articles which also have items you can fix, and so on...kind of like coding. For example, I started out editing the article on the Salt Lake City Chinatown,

Comic-Con@Home

If you've been having trouble getting Comic Con tickets in recent years or just couldn't handle the crowds when it got mainstream popular, pandemic Comic Con, now streaming, is the Comic Con for you. View from home, any session, no more waiting in lines or having to choose among talks.

Really fun game!

Latest review for HyperBowl on Steam.

My GameDev Career

I've been cleaning up my github repos and found this slide presentation of my gamedev career I made for some students last year. I hope it was inspiring!

A Retro Review

When you work on a remake of an old game, you get people complaining about things that aren't like the original, but that's a good thing. It shows you have a built-in audience, and it's useful feedback. It's hard to reconstruct a game from memory and YouTube videos. I could

The Pinball Hall of Fame

Now that I live here, I have little interest in the Las Vegas Strip, with the exception of the new Pinball Hall of Fame location, bigger and better with more machines. They don't call it a museum, but really it is, just one where you can play all the exhibits.

Happy HyperBowl Birthday!

I'm not as diligent as I used to be about googling for reviews of my apps and games, so I only just found this hour and a half(!) walkthrough of HyperBowl on Steam made a few weeks ago. Happy Birthday, gamer CJ!

Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid

One cool aspect of the indie game portal itch.io is the occasional game bundle for good. The latest is this bundle for Palestinian aid, proceeds going to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Over a thousand indie games for $5 (or more, if you want to donate extra)

As a game, this sucks

At first, I thought this latest review for HyperBowl on Steam was a bad one. But after the first sentence, it seems to be a positive review.