Bodhidharma, Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1887.
Month: February 2016
Bodhidharma, Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1887.
His analytical tendency, along with the huge hat collection that resulted from it, would obliterate him.
“The Philosophers” by Adam Ehrlich Sachs (2016)
His analytical tendency, along with the huge hat collection that resulted from it, would obliterate him.
“The Philosophers” by Adam Ehrlich Sachs (2016)
On the local radio show a man who won a Pulitzer prize in fiction explained that one must write every day because if a person does not write everyday a person forgets how to access the subconscious. If one did not write everyday then whenever a person comes back to writing she would have to learn to write from the beginning again. This has always been my plan. I would like to not know how to write, also to know no words. I believe this prize winning novelist believed that the mind had two places, the conscious and subconscious, and that literature could only come out of the subconscious mind, but that language preferred to live in the conscious one. This is wrong. Language prefers to live on the Internet.
from “the innocent question” by anne boyer in garments against women (via nogreatillusion)
On the local radio show a man who won a Pulitzer prize in fiction explained that one must write every day because if a person does not write everyday a person forgets how to access the subconscious. If one did not write everyday then whenever a person comes back to writing she would have to learn to write from the beginning again. This has always been my plan. I would like to not know how to write, also to know no words. I believe this prize winning novelist believed that the mind had two places, the conscious and subconscious, and that literature could only come out of the subconscious mind, but that language preferred to live in the conscious one. This is wrong. Language prefers to live on the Internet.
from “the innocent question” by anne boyer in garments against women (via nogreatillusion)
QA Lead – Double Fine – 2013-2017
Keep on dreamin’!
I’d been a fan of Double Fine’s games since I first played Psychonauts in 2005. While at Vivendi, we had the opportunity to do some marketing for Brütal Legend, a game the company was set to release until they closed down and EA took on publishing duties. That meant I had the chance to see the game again while it was in test at EA, and it was the heavy metal RTS I never knew I wanted. I didn’t get the chance to contribute to the game at either juncture, but I sure started to feel like I wanted to work on anything Double Fine could create!
While I missed my first chance when I interviewed in 2007, I applied again and got hired as a tester in 2013. This gave me the chance to work on nearly every game the company ever made as they re-released games on PC, and by 2014 I was hired as a full-time QA Lead. There was a brief stint where I worked in production or wasn’t at the company, but I got the chance to resume my QA Lead role and work on recent projects such as Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin and Headlander, both games I’m incredibly proud of. The company’s slate of games continues to showcase the unique qualities that made me fall in love with the company over a decade ago.
As I continue at Double Fine, I also aspire to expand my responsibilities and skill set beyond a typical QA Lead role. I regularly contribute in a release management capacity for a variety of the company’s game releases, and I’m taking classes in some of the tools our artists, animators, and designers use in order to better understand the process of making our games.
It’s been a wild dozen years in this industry. I’m happy to find myself in a place where creativity and business come together in such an amazing way!