Chris Knowles
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Chris Knowles
@tarrenam.com
Christian, indie game developer of optimization puzzle game Hexahedra. Blogs about geekery and Christianity at the same time.

Former RuneScape engine dev at Jagex.

Hexahedra: https://s.team/a/1248420
Blog: https://blog.tarrenam.com
Found room 46, immediately stopped, because my goodness puzzle games do NOT get better if you add RNG and grinding.
January 10, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Yuri Gagarin went round the earth once and was made Hero of the Soviet Union. I go around the sun every year and all I get is a cake.
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 PM
December 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I'm desperately hoping this is an Adobe Illustrator gag.
December 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Oof! I sort of regret letting my parents get rid of mine (and the Acorn Electron), but to be honest the odds I'd ever actually crack it out are pretty slim. I do still have my Mega Drive but I never turn it on.
December 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Oh, yes, the battery life. And some pretty weak soldering that meant the mains input would break after a while. I remember that one of the tensest things about playing on mine was not moving too much and joggling the cable, causing it to reset.
December 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I'm confused that programming is in S but specific, hard bits of programming, like online multiplayer, are in A 🤔

But I do love that quaternions are some sort of weird alien creature!
December 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Particularly when McClane has no shoes!
December 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
So this is essentially a 1% rev share (though with some annoying stepping) once a game's revenue hits $25m?
December 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Is "DevPods" another name for those little coffee capsules you put in the machine?
December 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I know Bluesky has a tendency to make people post in a way that sucks the fun out of everything, but please make sure there's enough room for an ambulance to get through.

My wife has a rather hairy story about pointedly parked cars producing exactly that situation.
December 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM