Choosing Controllers for Younger Players
Like any hobby, the type and quality of the tool used to interact with that hobby can make or break its enjoyment. A dull knife makes cooking tedious and frustrating. So, too, can the wrong controller contribute to a distasteful experience with games.
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The Swords of Ditto: Mormo's Curse
The short of it: if you take a Zelda game, replace almost all items with toy-themed objects, make it rogue-lite, and add a time-based reset loop, you get Swords of Ditto.
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Learning to Be a Tech Lead
For most of my career, I’ve been an individual contributor: focused on the tasks at hand, writing code, among other things. All of that changed about six years ago. I found myself managing products, releases, infrastructure, and making many software decisions. As a result, I was promoted to “Lead Software Engineer.” Other developers were looking to me for answers, and I was involved with high-level decisions for products and features, so it seemed like a natural progression. However, I was ill-prepared for what it takes to be a lead engineer.
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Meta: How this blog is built and deployed
It is an unspoken rule that if you utilize something other than Wordpress for a blog that you must include an article on how it is built. This is that article. I’ve gone through several renditions of this site over the years starting with a custom PHP site, moving to Wordpress, Jekyll (Github pages), raw HTML, Medium, and finally what it is today: Hugo. With the history enumerated, you might be wondering, why expend the effort on changing technologies for a blog? Continue reading
Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony
Jamestown, released back in 2011, falls under the “shmup” (Shoot em’ Up) category. It is a top-down shooter hearkening to the days of Galaxians set in a “17th century” British colonial Mars. This is one of the first games that Sam and I played cooperatively.
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