Bennett FoddyInterview
Moral philosopher, game developer
Adapted from Bennett Foddy's interview on Uses This, published 10 August 2012. 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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There are some things you can't do like that, though, so sometimes I'm forced to use an old Wacom tablet for painting, or a Samson C03U condenser mic for recording sound effects.
I backup to a Time Capsule and to an external drive that lives in a different building, ever since I met photographer Finn Taylor, who literally takes two full backups every 20 minutes even when he's in the field.
I love my iPhone 4S even more than I love my Mac, and as a frequent traveler it has completely changed my life.
I have a Nikon D90 camera which I love, but I feel less compelled to lug it around since I got the new iPhone with its competent camera.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Notes
Coding & Development
Elements on the iPhone is in many ways better than any of the word processors I've used on the Mac or PC.
Design
For graphics I use out-of-date versions of Photoshop and Illustrator, which are fine, but only more impressive than the preceding versions in that they crash every time you try to quit.
Media
For making games, I'm using Audacity for editing sounds, which somehow manages to be less usable than Sound Forge was ten years ago.
I bought Apple's Aperture for photo editing, which is nice to use until it insists on using 6GB of RAM just to copy photos from an SD card, even if your system only has 1GB free.
Storage
Other
My hobby is writing videogames for the web and the iPhone, and maybe I'm best-known on the Internet for writing the game QWOP.
My website runs on a Serverlove.com cloud-based VPS, which means it feels more like software than hardware.