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Daniel Strano's Blog

I'm a self-motivated student who reads in many different areas of study and writes creatively. I want to understand 'everything,' and I want to do and create things of practical value for other people with that understanding. During my formal studies in physics, I realized that one of the most practical things of value I could create could be games that entertain and engage people's minds in the process.

I'm a very haptic learner, and I realize that games like Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Portal, and Braid helped me explore my universe and my identity. I want to help people recognize that we can understand basically any topic in human experience when we poke it with a controller, from a quantum cosmos to where we fit within it.

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High road and low road: Why Android SDK developers should take off the kid gloves  Featured Blogs
Posted by Daniel Strano on Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:13:00 EDT in Programming, Smartphone/Tablet
Today's smart phones out-power the supercomputers of the late 1980s, but Google's SDK developers still haven't found the right middle road between high and low level design.
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Latent potential: How souped-up physics engines could transform gaming  Featured Blogs
Posted by Daniel Strano on Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:41:00 EST in Programming
At the "sweet-spot" between the cost of hardware and the demands on programmers, the platforms we use to run today's software have the latent capacity for direct modern physics simulations, while modern physicists use hardware that's just as inexpensive.
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Forever NES: Video Games as a New Classical Medium
Posted by Daniel Strano on Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:26:00 EST in
Video games integrally reflect our zeitgeist. In games, we find a perfect mirror to our culture and the ubiquitous effects of Moore's Law on us. This post is a literary personal perspective on life as a gamer at the knee of the exponential growth curve.
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