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Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 5:36PM This episode of Scruffy Thinking features Mary Rose Cook, the mastermind behind Pistol Slut. She talks about falling in love, fakery, text editing and making music.
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Alternate Show Titles
- Slut Windows
- Rubbing my hands together
- U2 and Cure covers?
- Emacs as a lover
- Frustrating and weird
- Smash your teacup (and your favorite glasses)
- Love letter to BBEdit
- Kinetic Slut
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Kanen Flowers
Kanen is the troublemaker behind Scruffy Thinking. He writes a blog, writes code and generates too much content for one sane person. You can follow him on twitter or check out his company at Scruffy.TV.
Mary Rose Cook
Mary Rose Cook is the mastermind behind Pistol Slut, a very retro 2D platform shooter written in some form of JavaScript. She is also a hacker, a musician and a person who lives in London. She works for Pusher.
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Music
Outro Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"
Show Notes
Mary Rose Cook on Uses This (the Setup) as well as her impressive Music and the JSConf presentation on blip.tv.
Make a custom t-shirt at Neighborhoodies and sport some LISP or Ruby love (but, mostly LISP).
I totally use newLisp and BBEdit for editing, along with AutoPairs on the Mac (to keep me from going insane when using parenthesis).
Metal Machine Music is Lou Reed's experimental album.
Mary learned about Behavior Trees for her game and wrote machine.js for others to use in their games. It has a JSON backend for the logic.
The Incident, a fast-paced, retro arcade-ish game for iPhone and iPad.
Canabalt on the internet, as a Flash-based game (boo) and Canabalt on the iPhone or iPad (yay!).
The amazing Pistol Slut, which should only be opened in Google Chrome.
The Editor War explains vi against Emacs. We verge into a discussion of Sublime Text and then into TextMate, before talking again about BBEdit.
That game Mary couldn't think of is called Space Miner, by the way...
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