Grant HowittInterview
RPG designer (Rowan, Rook and Decard)
Adapted from Grant Howitt's interview on Uses This, published 15 June 2023. 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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We put a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 in there, which runs most things fine.
Anyway.) There were multiple options for Razer mice available but I chose none of them because they all look like something the baddies would build in Command and Conquer so I use a ratty old Logitech one - it has two side buttons, which I like to use to navigate webpages and reload in video games, so I'm happy to have it.
I use two monitors (a new MSI Optix MAG271C and an old AOC) which proves invaluable in allowing me to split my attention to the point of uselessness.
I have an ancient Tully desk that I got free off a friend of a friend when I was living in New York eight years ago, and I've used the blasted thing pretty much every day since.
Sometimes I work with physical media, especially when I'm making one-page games, so I print out sheets on nice paper through the Epson XP-960 (which is fine as far as printers go but it kicks up a stink about my third-party cartridges every time I try to use it) and use Swann-Morton scalpel blades to cut stuff up and pritt-stick to stick it back together.
Communication
Comms-wise, we rely on Discord to handle our remotely-distributed office.
Productivity
I use Google Docs for about 90% of my work.
Browser
I use Chrome as a browser and have, at time of writing, 29 tabs open - each of them a task or a document I'm working on.
Design
I experimented briefly with Affinity Publisher to do layout, but there's too much to learn and I'm too indifferent to learn it.
I've found that Canva handles what little layout needs I have admirably.
Media
I like playing games to relax and I use the Xbox Game Pass to have a rotating cast of titles, so I want to be able to have a go at anything which takes my fancy.
(At present it's Hi-Fi Rush, which is great.)