Emily ShortInterview
Interactive narrative consultant
Adapted from Emily Short's interview on Uses This, published 7 February 2011. 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
When I'm working off-site, a MacBook Pro, 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB of memory, 320 GB hard drive.
For reviewing purposes, I also have an Xbox 360.
For travel: a 64 GB iPad, no 3G.
To go with that, a pair of Sennheiser CX 300 II in-ear headphones.
I also go nowhere without my iPhone, now several generations old, but still so effective and faithful that I can't bring myself to upgrade.
Communication
Productivity
I also use BBEdit for composing reviews and articles, as much as I can get away with, and turn to Microsoft Word only when it's professionally necessary.
Browser
Coding & Development
I frequently brainstorm on paper or in BBEdit.
I've dabbled in Processing, and thought it was awesome, but haven't had enough time to devote to doing anything significant with it so far.
For assembling research for academic purposes, I like Scrivener.
Design
Inform is the interactive fiction development system I've been helping to develop for the last few years.
To visualize complex puzzle or narrative structures, I rely on OmniGraffle.
Media
Other
I do the lion's share of my work in Mac OS X, but I have a Bootcamp partition (33 GB of the whole) running Windows XP for game reviewing.
Academic PDFs I organize with Papers.