Renaud BédardInterview
Game developer (FEZ)
Adapted from Renaud Bédard's interview on Uses This, published 14 November 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 ↗
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I do all my work on a PC laptop, an Asus N51Vn that I bought in 2009.
I have pretty standard/crappy Altec Lansing 2.1 speakers hooked up, but usually listen to music/game sounds with my trusty eggshell Panasonic RP-HTX7 headphones.
I own a slow-ass iPhone 3G, 8GB.
I sit on an Aeron Chair, probably the best sitting-all-day chair I've sat on.
Communication
Productivity
I like to use Google Docs to share task lists and track stuff.
Browser
Notes
For HLSL, XML and the such, I like Programmer's Notepad.
Coding & Development
When I don't work on FEZ and still do game development I use Unity because it's so easy to work with and also supports C#, which is my language of predilection.
We rent an SVN server from SourceRepo, for no particular reason.
Design
Media
Storage
Other
My laptop runs Windows 7, Macs aren't really an option when you work with XNA or the Xbox.
I gave the SciTech .NET Memory Profiler a shot but haven't come back to it in a while.
I recently found the Zeta Resource Editor to play with .resx resource files and many languages at once, it's free and quite handy.