The Talk Show With John Gruber

346: ‘Like Neo Dodging Bullets’, With Zach Gage

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Zach Gage joins the show to talk about game design and creativity, including his new game Knotwords.

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    • Links
    • Knotwords.
    • Zach Gage’s portfolio website, with a full list of games.
    • Really Bad Chess, which is actually, of course, really good.
    • SynthPod, Zach’s first iPhone app.
    • HyperStudio — a classic developer tool like HyperCard, but with color support.
    • Apple’s original “Cocoa” — Stagecast Creator/KidSim.
    • Zach Lieberman’s OpenFrameworks project from 2010.
    • Lights Off — the first native iPhone game, nearly a year before the App Store. (I mistakenly called it “Lights Out” during the show.)
    • CandyBar — Mac utility for customizing icons, including, back in the day, the icons for the system itself.
    • Threes, a great puzzle game of iOS from 2014. (App Store link.)
    • 2048, a free Threes knockoff.
    • Texas Instruments TI-83 Graphing Calculator, and games written for it.
    • PICO-8 fantasy console.
    • Playdate Pulp, and Bitsy, Pulp’s inspiration.
    • Sol LeWitt, conceptual artist.

      • This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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