David SirlinInterview
Game designer (Sirlin Games)
Adapted from David Sirlin's interview on Uses This, published 22 May 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
My main tool is a 2009 iMac, with whatever the highest specs were available at that time.
I also have a mid-2011 13" MacBook Air.
For that I use an HP LaserJet CP2025dn printer.
For backups and as a router, I use the Apple Time Capsule.
Communication
Productivity
For page layout I use Apple's iWork Pages.
For spreadsheets I sometimes use Apple Numbers, and other times Google Spreadsheets.
For stuff involving PDFs, Adobe Acrobat Pro.
Coding & Development
Design
One is for data and the other is a scratch disc for Photoshop.
I also use Illustrator occasionally, but I try to avoid it.
InDesign confuses me, so I don't use it.
Storage
I have two 2 TB G-Tech external hard drives.
For backups, I use Apple's Time Machine.
I use Dropbox a lot as well.
Other
I'm using a Diablo 3 mouse.
To make contact sheets of card images, I use Adobe Bridge CS6 even though it's old.