Alex Hartford | now | games + music + films + words

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My favorite things


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

One Hour, One Life | Jason Rohrer

Books

Being Myself | Rupert Spira

How to Live | Derek Sivers

Twilight of the Idols | Friedrich Nietzsche

The War of Art | Steven Pressfield

The Courage to be Disliked | Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

Siddhartha | Herman Hesse

The Art Spirit | Robert Henri

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