Alex EvansInterview
Co-founder of MediaMolecule (LittleBigPlanet)
Adapted from Alex Evans's interview on Uses This, published 14 August 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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At home, I have a 13" MacBook Air; all of LittleBigPlanet's servers were written on its predecessor, an 11" Air.
At work, I have a couple of home-brew PCs with multiple Dell 27" monitors, and a stack of Playstation 4 devkits, at least one of which is connected to a large LG telly.
I have a monome 128 which I adore from afar - it is as yet unused, as it arrived at roughly the same time as my first child.
I also long for an Ableton Push.
Leap Motion Controller+ 1 other
Call me a luddite, but touchscreens and even touchless interfaces like Leap Motion leave me a bit cold; a physical push button, slider or knob is a wonderful thing to touch, especially when it 'magically' controls an explosion of digital colour and sound.
Coding & Development
I'm not a Mac expert, and I loathe Xcode every time I try to use it.
At work, I almost exclusively use Microsoft Visual Studio to write PS4 code, along with MediaMolecule's in-house tools.
Design
I've really enjoyed relaxing creatively by using ShaderToy as a sketchpad - the process is really iterative and live, due to its (wonderfully tastefully chosen) extreme limitations.