Ten years in 📍remote🚧
I started my first remote job
in April 2011 and have worked that way ever since. This post is about how I've communicated with my team and shipped product while sitting in my living room.
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From the vault: Skeletal animation process
A brief look into the skeletal (or bone) animation process used in many mobile games and how the parts (bones) are defined in the script such that the engine knows what animations belong to which rig.
From the vault: Production buffet
An introduction to the use of rigging templates, which are reused to keep build sizes small (less than 50MB) in mobile games.
From the vault: Feature requirements in games
Feature requirements in games are refined through constant playtesting and prototyping, as illustrated in this old article I originally wrote for Gamasutra way back in 2015.
The persistence of Vim: a personal story
Vim is a rare near-constant in an inconstant industry, given its thirty-year track record and appearance in some form within many modern IDEs. What gives Vim its legs? This post examines Vim through how I've used it for both programming and writing.