Chet FaliszekInterview
Writer of games (Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2)
Adapted from Chet Faliszek's interview on Uses This, published 28 March 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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Productivity
For Portal 2 the script was written mainly in Word.
Notes
It depends on the project but for all projects, Evernote is required.
Coding & Development
The Left 4 Deads have so many lines that need to fire under certain conditions; we track it all in database software - Visual FoxPro 6.
Most of this is automated with little programs we wrote in Foxpro but whenever I need to edit something by hand I use Editplus 2.
Other
So I mainly work on one of two machines that are filled with a bunch of cores, 12 gigs of ram, a good video card, 30 inch monitor, and runs Windows 7.