Code Is Just is now on Kindle

No posts for months and then two at the same time, you can tell I’m from London!

No apologies though, I’ve been building things. One of them is finally ready. The other I hinted at yesterday is called Reverie, and will be out soon.

In September 2021 I started a Twitter thread listing my old game credits, so my family would know the work I’d done. By day two it had become something else — the story of a teenage bedroom coder in early ‘80s Britain, and what happened when the rejections kept coming and my mum told me to just make another game.

A lot of people were kind about that thread. Some called it the greatest ever written. A production company optioned it. And then Twitter, in its decline, destroyed it. The original tweet got deleted, and they refused to restore it. Then the threading got trashed, and insult to injury, I lost access to my DMs, some of which brought tears to my eyes. The record I’d made so the work wouldn’t be forgotten was trashed by the platform that hosted it.

So I’ve restored it properly. Code Is Just: The Compiled Edition — compiled, lightly corrected, with images and footnotes, and the immediacy of the original intact.

If you’re in the UK, get it here.

If you’re in the US, get it here.

It’s available elsewhere too, please search for it and tell others.

£6.99 / $8.99. No DRM, because a book with this title could hardly ship with a lock on it, and as I’ve been saying for years, the only people who see the piracy warning intro on a Blu-ray are the ones who paid for it.

If you’d rather buy direct, it’s the same price at Gumroad, where every penny that doesn’t go to a payment processor comes to me, and you get both the PDF and ePub versions.

Code doesn’t lie.

Code doesn’t cheat.

Code is just.