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parisidau

718 karma · joined April 14, 2014

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

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No AI data centres in my backyard, please

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Our 2D game character grew 3% taller every time he walked

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Show HN: Tarot for Yarn Spinner

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We built a museum exhibit about a 1990s game hint line, with a physical binder

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Why we don’t use AI

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Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

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Australian bank gives out customer phone to another customer by asking ChatGPT

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Anti-pornography lobby forces small gamedevs off storefronts

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(Gradient) Descent into Mediocrity

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Marcus compressed all human knowledge into one word

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Wise refuses to let us access our $60k AUD

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Show HN: Mass Effect 2 for Yarn Spinner

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In narrative games, constraints are the point

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The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity

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Show HN: Yarn Spinner 3 Beta 1 is out

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Show HN: Yarn Spinner for Books

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Seeking submission to “FOSS at Play” track at FOSSY

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Show HN: Try Yarn Spinner, open source narrative game dev tool, in a web browser

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How live games monitor and change with millions playing

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Show HN: Friendly tool for writing game dialogue (we just hit 1.0!)

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DevWorld 2018 – Australia's longest running iOS/macOS dev

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Student Survey on the Information Behaviours of Cinemagoers on Websites/app

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/dev/world/2017 – iOS/Swift dev conference in Melbourne – Early Bird tickets

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Call for Presenters at DevWorld 10th year AUs oldest iOS/macOS dev conference

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/dev/world/2016 – 9th year of Australia's oldest iOS developer event –– CFP Open

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/dev/world/2015: Australia's oldest iOS dev conf returns to MEL for 8th year

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Brand design secrets

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/dev/world/2014 – Australia's oldest iOS and Mac developer conference

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How not to respond to Heartbleed – CBA, an Australian bank (read the comments)

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