A while back I was contacted by Christiano Lima Santos, who helps run a Brazilian game developer community called Programadores e Desenvolvedores de Jogos. He asked for an interview, which I gave. The second issue of their truly fantastic newsletter PDJZine is out, and it contains the interview — in Portuguese, of course.

I am blown away by the quality of this ‘zine — it’s practical, detailed, and just really impressive. My Portuguese is more than a little rusty, but I was able to follow it anyway. Anyone know of comparable resources in English? I’d love to point to them. Just recently I was reading David Brin’s article about why kds don’t learn to code today, and it hit home for me (David had actually asked me for recommendations on languages a while back, so knew this rant was coming). The days of being able to type in listings are gone, but they were so important — so it’s great to see this ‘zine full of actual code blocks, and just as importantly, pseudocode.

Anyway, there’s two issues posted; if you read Portuguese or even Spanish, check it out. My interview is in Issue 2 (PDF).

In the meantime, here’s the interview I gave, in English, so you can read it. 🙂
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