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Mark Schulz
@markschulzwriter.bsky.social
✏️ Head of Words at True & Good, the brand language & tone of voice agency: www.trueandgood.com

🌎 Global freelance

🪶 Collaborator with Ellen von Unwerth on “Heimat” 📕

https://www.taschen.com/en/limited-editions/photography/06355/ellen-von-unwerth-heimat
That's fabulous. I wrote a 64-screen game in BASIC on my C16, and remember sketching all the screen designs out a page-per-screen in pencil, filling up my entire bedroom floor. UGCs looked good too, but played too slowly to be much fun. A stepping stone... Still have it on cassette tape.
December 12, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Always loved the box artwork. Great graphics & sound in all their games too.
December 11, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Try the 20:20:20 rule. Every 20 minutes, focus on an object 20 meters away, for 20 seconds.

Or follow the Pomodoro method, and simply do it every time the tomato 'tings' 🍅
December 10, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Hi Oviya. I am a brand language consultant with 20+ years' experience. My company develops brand voices; defines verbal identities & creates tone of voice guidelines. And runs linguistic audits within organisations, as a way to steer and shape culture.
Oviya.am
December 4, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Well, that's a good point, Keith. This advice only works for people who can read their own handwriting (and are struggling to write in the first place).

For anyone else, yes, keyboards, dictation, carving runes – whatever works.
December 3, 2024 at 7:26 AM
The statue of Johnson outside his birthplace in Lichfield has him sitting on a chair – held up by books. I can see the sculptor had probably never tried this: it makes far more sense to stack the books horizontally than to stand them vertically, as they're shown here.
December 2, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Commando! Great game, but tough.
November 29, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Don’t get me started on true quotes versus primes.
November 27, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Hello Jack, do you have a link you could share to the full report by any chance?
November 26, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Very cool, I like it.
November 26, 2024 at 6:09 PM
So clever to just swap the room colour as a way of making it seem like a completely new location. Saves a ton of memory. Not quite sure why the sprites are so flickery though?
November 26, 2024 at 6:02 PM
I had (still have!) a Commodore 64. But there's something about the vivid colours on a Spectrum I always liked. Pity it didn't have sprites though 😀
November 26, 2024 at 5:48 PM
More adventure games, please 😀
November 24, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Possibly the best arcade game ever, when played with friends on the full-size machine.
November 24, 2024 at 10:10 PM
@michaelbierut.bsky.social and the inspiration behind our corporate logo at True & Good:
November 24, 2024 at 11:08 AM
That's me, @susiedent.bsky.social! Currently enjoying Boswell's Tour of the Hebrides – with our “illustrious friend”.
November 24, 2024 at 11:04 AM