Chris DahlenInterview
Video game writer, coder
Adapted from Chris Dahlen's interview on Uses This, published 7 March 2013. 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
My favorite pen is the Pilot Precise V5, in black and red: black when I'm taking notes or jotting down ideas, and red when I'm marking up a piece.
Productivity
I just need a computer that boots in under five minutes and gets me to a browser and Microsoft Word.
Notes
My go-to simple text editor is NotePad++.
Coding & Development
Storage
All my stuff lives on Dropbox now, where anyone could just hack in and find a really bad first draft of a short story about a toilet overflowing on a space station.
Other
I'm Chris Dahlen and I write for videogames, including Klei Entertainment's Mark of the Ninja.
I haven't used a Mac since I was in college and using PageMaker.