JayAlexMexican food outside San Diego (Having lived in Colorado, Ohio, and now Melbourne)Releasing my first commercial video gameThe being an uncle of campingSkyscrapers by Matt Haighttps://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/QM4hPodE.jpgAttempting to preserve 40 years' worth of dataA puzzle adventure game starring a ferret.DROD-likes.Sending an envelope full of guacamole to a food lab so they can tell you a list of ingredients.Reaching in the window so you can finally drive a million dollar Porsche.Letting the Ewok sit in the driver's seat but not actually letting it drive the car.Whether Ewoks get old enough to drive.Throw Rock.Making a game by first making your own level editor, image editor, audio synthesizer and music composition tools.Finding playtesters by letting them come to you.An eyeball that charges a laser when you step in front of it.Deliberately optimizing your game to take up as little disk space as possible.A project that starts moving much faster when you figure out what kind of project it should be.Writing a 3D modeler so that you can get your 2D game on Steam.Working with a professional artist.Rendering fur.Games with turns that represent less than a second of in-game time.The mind-feel of a turn length.A game that was so good that the developers went back decades later to make it playable.The Mud and the Slime.How to play DROD without any roach timers.Which DROD is the best one to start with.Sokoban with swordplay.The level in King Dugan's Dungeon that's nothing but roach queens.Optimizing your sword movements well enough that you can move forward while fighting.Puzzles that are just hard enough to engage your mind while you do something else.Visiting someone who is camping and then going home to sleep in your own bed.Building a fire and making s'mores in the bathroom.Camping expenses.Giving gifts to adults who can already buy whatever they want.Deliberately choosing a vacation that is especially exhausting.Spending two days each visiting seven different family friends.Your grandparents taking you camping and they sleep in the RV while you have to sleep in the tent.Buying an onion bloomer for $600 and insisting that your family eat a blooming onion every night to justify the purchase.Skyscrapers made out of words Training yourself to visualize words in the wrong orientation.Puzzling out what the title of the poem would've been if the typesetter hadn't messed it up Cross-sectional art.Poems that are intended to be viewed rather than read aloud.Anti-poem poems.Every project you've ever worked on (on a computer)Good usable archives.The unique digital footprint of your life.Getting the bits from a SCSI hard drive in an old Mac that doesn't boot up.Apple Desktop Bus Connection.The miraculous ubiquity and longevity of USB-A.Figuring out how to hook up a digital video player that requires a Firewire connection.The MacOS resource fork.What the .sit and .hqx extensions meant.Gamma Zee.Using social media to actually do things.
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