About My Brain
I have Dyslexia and
Aphantasia, these
conditions have had a negligible impact on my life, personally and professionally. They are, however, interesting, and I suspect, in their way, they provide me with an atypical perspective on the world and the way I see and solve problems.
Video Games
I have been playing video games my whole life and show no
signs of stopping anytime soon. The interplay of technology, narrative
and art never fails to inspire, intrigue and delight.
Making games
I have spent some time learning to make my games both with web technologies and then later GameMaker Studio, Unity (Although only very briefly), Unreal 5 and then finally.
Godot, where I fell in love with the spirited little open source underdog.
Japan and Japanese
My wife is Japanese, and we lived together in Japan for six months. We mostly lived in Osaka but also travelled a fair bit to places such as Kyoto, Nagasaki, Nara, Hyogo and Okayama. I am (very slowly) learning Japanese. (わたし の にっぽん ご のうりょく は ひくい です).
Japan profoundly influenced me. As a modern culture that
evolved without the classical western heritage of Rome and Jerusalem it
acts as a fascinating counterpoint to established attitudes and ideas I have grown up with.
It's easy for a foreigner to fall in
love with Japan and its people, and whilst there are
certainly some aspects of the culture that are not to be entirely
admired, the sense of dignity, pride and respect that
permeates Japanese culture is something I wish we had more
of in the West. The ownership that the Japanese seem to take
in everything they do is something I will never forget, and
I seek to embrace it in my own life and inspire those I
mentor.
