The Game Changer: A Memoir of Disruptive Love by Franklin Veaux

Author:Franklin Veaux [Veaux, Franklin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw
Tags: Non-Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9780991399758
Amazon: 0991399757
Goodreads: 25403882
Publisher: Thorntree Press
Published: 2015-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

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When my friend Guy moved to Tampa, a new chapter opened in our friendship. Before long, we had launched several joint business projects together. In 1995, we founded a small-press magazine called Xero, filled with fiction, articles, and artwork about cyberpunk, BDSM, tech, poetry, and anything else that attracted our interest. We adopted the slogan “the color of television, tuned to a dead channel” as the magazine’s tagline, a reference to the first sentence of the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer by William Gibson. Xero was a modest success, by the standards of small-press ’zines. We never made any real money on it, and we struggled to break even on some issues, but it generally paid for itself—a rarity in the ’zine community. We kept at it, publishing a few issues a year, until it gained a small but ferociously loyal following. More importantly, Guy and I discovered we worked well together, and our friendship grew closer still.

I had been a hobbyist computer programmer since starting with that TRS-80 my aunt had bought me in 1977. It was less powerful than what you’ll find inside a microwave oven today, but it set me down the path of fascination with all things tech. I spent vast quantities of time teaching myself how to program it, first in the limited and slow BASIC language it shipped with, later in Z80 assembly language. I took it apart and put it back together countless times, learning the function of every chip on the board, teaching myself to modify it. I designed and built new peripherals from scratch. That tiny, underpowered computer started my lifelong relationship with computer programming.

So in 1995, I decided to teach myself Macintosh programming. I had been using Macs for a while. At first, desktop publishing was purely a Mac industry, so working prepress meant working on Macs. I was familiar with them, but I had never learned to program them.

I designed a computer game called Onyx as a way to teach myself Macintosh programming. True to my interests, it was a sex game, designed to be played by two to six people. Players would move around a virtual game board on the screen, buying and selling properties. The game kept track of the players’ sex, orientation, interests, and limits; when a player landed on a part of the board controlled by another player, he or she would have to pay rent or, if their sexes and orientations aligned, “work off” the debt. If players chose to work off a debt, the game would examine their state of undress, their sexes, and the limits and boundaries they had entered in their profiles, then randomly choose an appropriate sex act for them to perform. That meant I needed to create an enormous library of different sex acts, all categorized by sex of the participants, number of participants, degree of kinkiness, and more.

It turns out that building a library of hundreds of different sex acts, all neatly cataloged and described, is harder than it sounds. For a long time, I carried a small notebook with me wherever I went.

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