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Favorites

A list of things I enjoy


Films

Mind Game | Masaaki Yuasa

Wolf Children | Mamoru Hosoda

Five Centimeters Per Second | Makoto Shinkai

Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa

Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson

Mulholland Drive | David Lynch

The End of Evangelion | Hideaki Anno


Games

Spelunky | Derek Yu

Everyday Shooter | Jonathan Mak

Morrowind | Bethesda Game Studios

Into the Breach | Subset Games

The Witness | Jonathan Blow

The Beginner’s Guide | Davey Wreden

Dark Souls | From Software


Books

The Book of Life | Jiddu Krishnamurti

Being Myself | Rupert Spira

How to Live | Derek Sivers

The War of Art | Steven Pressfield

The Courage to be Disliked | Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

The Art Spirit | Robert Henri


Fiction

Siddhartha | Herman Hesse

Elric of Melnibone | Michael Moorcock

Swords and Devilry | Fritz Leiber


Albums

Hejira | Joni Mitchell

Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying | Labi Siffre

Beyond the Fleeting Gales | Crying

Grand Ledge | Paul Baribeau

Dion | Dion

Teens of Denial | Car Seat Headrest

Hosono House | Haruomi Hosono

Modern Lovers ‘88 | Jonathan Richman


Talks

“There’s not enough innovation in games!” | Jonathan Blow

Innovation in Games panel, GDC 2007 | Jonathan Blow, Jenova Chen, Kyle Gabler, Steve Swink, Jonathan Mak

The Dragon Speech | Chris Crawford

Deep Work - GDC 2014 | Jonathan Blow

My Product is my Garden | Herman Martinus