Tamas KemenczyInterview
Game designer (Kentucky Route Zero), web developer (Pitchfork)
Adapted from Tamas Kemenczy's interview on Uses This, published 20 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
I also work on a homebrew Arduino VGA synthesizer for Arcanebolt, a video/noise project.
My tattered pair of Sony MDR-7506 headphones are a classic and they have good audio response.
On input devices: I use an old school optical 3-button/wheel mouse and an Apple Wireless Keyboard with the caps lock remapped to control.
While I depend on a multitouch trackpad/Magic Mouse for day-to-day use, I find that it's just a bit too fuzzy and error-prone for the production tools I use.
Communication
I often end up with with long email chains talking through various game mechanics and possibilities so I guess Gmail could count towards a project management tool.
Browser
Coding & Development
Emacs is home sweet home and I use it across the board for development and pretty much anything text-related.
Design
Blender is my jam for computer graphics - fullscreened on that 27" display with the Elsyiun skin.
Media
Other
Right now I'm collaborating with Jake Elliott on Kentucky Route Zero, a Cardboard Computer game, as well as working as a developer for Pitchfork, most recently working on the Bat for Lashes cover story.
For Arcanebolt, I use a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge running some bygone version of Ubuntu for flashing the Arduino boards.
I jot down text snippets with Gist.