Jim CrawfordInterview
Game developer (Frog Fractions)
Adapted from Jim Crawford's interview on Uses This, published 29 November 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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I've been borrowing a friend's MacBook Pro to do iOS development on.
It's a Samsung 2333HD, a 23" 1080p display that's sort of a monitor/TV hybrid.
On the audio side, I've been using a Zoom H1 field recorder for almost all my recording work.
Whenever I have to use QWERTY, I revert to a wrist destroying three-finger method I taught myself on the Commodore 128, in which my left pinky stays in contact with the tab key at all times.
Communication
Productivity
Coding & Development
If that's not hip enough for you already, I actually type in a Dvorak variant that a friend of mine came up with, a compromise between Dvorak's letter placement and QWERTY's punctuation placement, which is better for programming in C-like languages.
Lately I've been putting the occasional project in Git to try to get the hang of it, and while it's still confusing, at least one advantage is already clear to me: when I use Git I commit after every distinct change, because commits don't feel as significant.
Media
When I'm in a chiptune mood I'll pull out Schism Tracker, though it's been frustrating me lately since its interface is not a very good fit for a laptop keyboard.
Storage
Other
Lately I've been making games under the name "Twinbeard," and the thing I've done that you're most likely to have heard of is Frog Fractions.
I ended up wiping the disk and installing Windows 7 fresh, and it's been treating me fine ever since.
For version control I use TortoiseSVN.