Mat DickieInterview
Game developer
Adapted from Mat Dickie's interview on Uses This, published 15 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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My current laptop is a high-end Microsoft Surface Book because I liked the idea of it being touch-screen (although that has yet to manifest itself in any meaningful way).
As a developer of touch-screen apps, I'm a firm believer in that technology - so much so that my car is even touch-screen since I got a Tesla!
I also grudgingly keep a MacBook Air for uploading iOS apps, but I wouldn't choose to use it for anything else as I find Apple products to be a "closed system".
I developed my first app on a Samsung Galaxy S II, so my career has grown alongside that range.
Coding & Development
As much as I like it personally, it seems to be falling behind the rest of the industry and is not widely supported anymore - so I may need to jump to a more stable platform like Unity eventually.
Design
Wrestling Revolution 3D (Android)
The most popular is Wrestling Revolution 3D, which recently became the first game of its kind to reach the milestone of 50 million downloads.
My mobile apps are developed in Flash, which is now known as "Animate CC".
Media
For my sound engineering, I use WavePad Sound Editor.