More About Me
This blog is sparse on posts; I blame it on doing and then trying to life afterwards.
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 fuelled storyteller.
- My DnD character has a ton of charisma and many situational debuffs to it.
- Comfortable in n-dimensional complexity.
- Pushing for wise, loving, and painless disruption.
- Creative at heart but specced with hard science and bitter optimism.
- Hyperawareness & hyperfocus are the opposite of numbly desiring to bathe in louder signal.
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:
- unique stimulus scapes;
- full stack escapism design;
- juicy feedback, visuals, conveyance of feeling;
- clear but high-bandwidth input;
- liberating mechanics;
- emergent multiplayer shenanigans;
- fanbase meta and/or para social engagement;
- game feel, mouth feel (taste);
- bringing new ideas to life, non-derivative work;
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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