I’m a Senior Software Developer. I love what I do!

Word Search Books

My wife and I started with some Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), and looked to make some medium content books to see how this whole thing works. We accidentally created two new word search books and they’re for sale. Please give them a go. They are certainly our first foray into the world of publishing and word search books. I think we did okay.

The Technical Details

We didn’t want this to be a time consuming thing. We really wanted to see if we could get some books published with as little effort as possible (hence medium content books like word searches; they are often books that can be generated algorithmically). This means that we can figure out a theme or idea and get it published in a few hours. How did we do this? A little coding of course.

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Getting back to enjoying games by looking at the past

I finally set up my arcade machine. By machine I mean “a Windows PC running Maximus Arcade and an X-Arcade joystick, sitting in the corner of the office”, but hey, it’s close enough. I know some say that Maximus Arcade is dead, but I have a license, and it works out of the box with my X-Arcade joystick. So I’ll use it for now.

I have fond memories of so many arcade games when I was younger. I lived during the arcade peak, and they were at every corner café and arcade in South Africa. I played lots and spent money to match. We actually drew inspiration from the arcade era for our own game, Toxic Bunny.

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