John MurphyInterview
Game designer (Young Horses)
Adapted from John Murphy's interview on Uses This, published 17 May 2018. 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 use this little white babycube PC that I built in May 2015.
While I work I listen to music on these Sennheiser HD 598 headphones that look like they are from the 70s.
When I'm standing, I stand on this.
When I'm sitting, I sit on this.
When I take breaks, I sometimes play around on this.
I use my iPhone to take notes during meetings, document inspiring things in the world, and as a general repository for all of the things that my shitty brain can't remember.
Communication
For moment-to-moment communication, mostly of amusing online content, I use Slack.
I very occasionally blog on Medium.
Productivity
I then take a photo of the board with my iPhone and attach it to a Trello card.
I store things I want to read in Instapaper.
If a document has a lot of text, requires a lot of collaboration and feedback, or is otherwise too cumbersome to be in Trello, I use Google Docs and link those docs to any relevant Trello cards.
Notes
I use Notepad++ for editing XML files.
I use the default notes app on iPhone to take notes during playtests and meetings, which I then convert to checklists on Trello cards.
Security
I use LastPass for password management.
Media
I listen to music on Spotify.
I use Pocket Casts because it allows me to continue where I left off at the office or in the car when I get home and connect to Sonos.
Other
I'm a co-founder of Young Horses and one of the creators of Octodad.
We use TortoiseSVN for version control.
I send my Kindle notes to Evernote with Clippings.io.