parisidau
- Karma
- 707
- Created
- 12 years ago
About
I'm is co-founder of Secret Lab, the oldest game development studio in Hobart, Australia.We're best known for working on "Night in the Woods", which won a BAFTA. Now we make Yarn Spinner, the best dialogue tool for games: https://yarnspinner.dev
I formerly worked as mobile product manager for Meebo (acquired by Google) in the US, have a PhD in Computing, and write technical books (around 20 so far!) for O’Reilly Media.
I can be found on BlueSky at @hey.paris and online at http://hey.paris and on Mastodon at @parisba@cloudisland.nz
You can email me at paris@hn.why.wtf
Secret Lab can be found at http://www.secretlab.games
I also run the oldest iOS/macOS developer conference in Autralia/New Zealand, /dev/world: http://www.devworld.au
Recent Submissions
- 1. ▲ Our 2D game character grew 3% taller every time he walked (hey.paris)
- 2. ▲ Show HN: Tarot for Yarn Spinner (yarnspinner.dev)
- 3. ▲ We built a museum exhibit about a 1990s game hint line, with a physical binder (yarnspinner.dev)
- 4. ▲ Why we don’t use AI (yarnspinner.dev)
- 5. ▲ Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help (hey.paris)
- 6. ▲ Australian bank gives out customer phone to another customer by asking ChatGPT (hey.paris)
- 7. ▲ Anti-pornography lobby forces small gamedevs off storefronts (hey.paris)
- 8. ▲ (Gradient) Descent into Mediocrity (hey.paris)
- 9. ▲ Marcus compressed all human knowledge into one word (hey.paris)
- 10. ▲ Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD (hey.paris)