I sat in front of Mat, idly chatting about tech and cuisine. Before now, I had known him mostly for his cooking pictures on Twitter, the kind that made me envious of suburbanites and their 75,000 BTU woks. But now he was the test subject for my new project, to see if it was going to be fruitful or a waste of time. “What’s your job?” “Right now I’m working on microservices for a social media management platform.

One of the main technical goals I set for Galactology was to fully support user mods. The core of the game is written in C++, and asking for mods to be delivered as native DLLs is a mess and also non-portable, so it was clear to me early on that the best would be to enhance the existing Scheme scripting support, to the point I wanted to use it instead of C++, and then rewrite most of the game in Scheme, as if it was collection of mods.