I've asked ChatGPT what it thinks about playing games on retro/old hardware vs. emulation: Playing retro games today is super easy: for many games, there are remakes that still run on modern computers or consoles - you can find them on your favorite gaming platform, like steam, which has a "Retro" tag for search, or … Continue reading Playing on real retro hardware
Telemetry and insights into your product
Something that's quite incredible in this modern, ever-connected world, if you're working on a product team, is that you could be getting a wealth of insights from the thing you're building. It must have been hard in the days where you had your product run on isolated machines and never heard back from it after … Continue reading Telemetry and insights into your product
Guiding a user through a story
I am playing Maniac Mansion on my C64 at the moment. After I've successfully found and purchased it off of ebay, in a very good condition with all of its original big box, including its contents: Box Manual Poster of announcement board Response card for purchasing merch The 5.25" disc - still working! …I wanted … Continue reading Guiding a user through a story
Upgrading how video from the Amiga 500 is displayed
I have been looking into improving the video output on my Amiga 500 that I use for playing, capturing screenshots and capturing video. Not that the video quality was bad, but you could notice that there were distortions in the screenshots and the captured videos. It was more noticeable on my 1080p monitor that I … Continue reading Upgrading how video from the Amiga 500 is displayed
Learnings from Maniac Mansion
Ron Gilbert talked about Maniac Mansion in a classic game postmortem at GDC. I've watched the recording for a second time now. Aside from the obvious fact that Ron is an excellent story teller, there's a few learnings and notes that I took away again. Some of the things he learned and mentioned were processed … Continue reading Learnings from Maniac Mansion
I asked ChatGPT a few very relevant questions…
And it did well, I think: Until it tried to sell me quotes from the Beetles:
Product Management gone missing
I follow the unfolding Twitter story with great curiosity. I am shocked there's this many layoffs, and many people that helped grow the company and the social platform were let go. I won't go into detail, but I am not buying the narrative that all those that were let go were "bloat" or "unessential" or … Continue reading Product Management gone missing
Give me my tech map
I am playing this new game that's a city builder. The idea is that you build... a city. A very modern, complicated Sim City. Think "the settlers" or "Anno", but newer. It's "Farthest Frontier" - find it on your favorite game distribution site. I mostly like it, 10 hours or so in. What I am … Continue reading Give me my tech map
Speaking engagement
I had the pleasure to speak in front of ~120 very skilled security professionals the other day. I am not a very experienced speaker, so these types of engagements wear me out until after the presentation is over - and then I feel energized. The talk wasn't about a feature or component I work with … Continue reading Speaking engagement
Bucketizing backlog
I am trying to bucketize things. Structure helps me reduce chaos and tackle things and get things done efficiently. Buckets help with clarity. At least for me. When I look over the backlog, and what to focus on next - and this is for product work as well as for structuring my day, I am … Continue reading Bucketizing backlog
FRICKELSOFT 