More About Me
This blog is sparse on writing; I blame it on doing and then also trying to life.
Here’s a 2021 list of excellent/dumb philosophical things that rhyme with me:
- Proponent of egoless individuality, awareness, interestedness.
- Computer scientist chaotic-pensively converging to the ground truth.
- Confidence comes from deconstruction, understanding, doing. Not surface level shortcuts.
- Engineer of feeling, soul, style.
- Indie director of feature and circumstance.
- Business-principles-aware but impatiently so.
- 50-50 logic & feelings fueled storyteller.
- My DnD character has a ton of charisma and many situational debuffs to it.
- Comfortable in n-dimensional complexity.
- Co-lead of wise, loving, and benign collaborative disruption.
- Hyperawareness & hyperfocus is the opposite of being comfortably numb to signal.
- Creative at heart but specced with hard science and bitter optimism.
Check my portfolio for some projects and game-y things.
Some words about what I encourage, do, or appreciate:
reason, humour, imagination, nerdiness, talent, equal poise, flexible mindset, exponentiality.
And Dunny krugs vs ego.
Here’s what I like in gamedev:
- clear but high-bandwidth input,
- juicy feedback / visuals,
- unique stimulus scapes,
- liberating mechanics,
- emergent multiplayer shenanigans,
- fanbase meta and/or para social engagement,
- new ideas / approaches.
- game feel. mouth feel. (taste)
Random list of vidya I like, for reference:
| Baldur’s Gate 3, | Clair Obscur, | Like a Dragon, | Dead as Disco, | Phantom Liberty, | Outer Wilds, |
| Ikumi Nakamura, | Valve stuff, | Kamyia stuff, | Shadow of the Colossus, | System Shock 2, | Gish, |
| Rebecca Ford, | Tiny Glade, | Mirror’s edge, | Guilty Gear, | Street Fighter, | Legacy of Kain, |
| Kojima stuff, | SureAI (eg Skywind) | Katamari Damacy, | Majora’s mask, | Thief 2, | N++ & Flat Heroes, |
| Warren Spector, | Devil May Cry, | Jet Set Radio, | Echochrome, | Gang Beasts, | AVGN Adventures, |
| Carmack stuff, | Overwatch 1, | Beyond Good & Evil, | Jazz Jackrabbit, | Lethal League, | Skullgirls, |
| Titanfall 2, | Watchdogs 2, | Frog Fractions 2, | Grim Fandango, | Monkey Island, | Obra Dinn |
Here is a brief list of things I approve of:
- Making Business Personal
- Astronaut requirements == Job requirements
- John Cleese on Creativity
- Gabe Newell: Reflections of a video game maker
- John Carmack and SMU LYLE School of Engineering
- SIGGRAPH
- Octane Renderer for MRT light fields (VR)
- Art and Technology at Pixar
- Feng Zhu Design Cinema
- Jennifer Doudna
- Super Best Friend Zaibatsu
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