Curtis Herbert

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Living in Philadelphia Boulder.

Fact #31: My top 5 video games? In no particular order: Sonic 3 + Knuckles, Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Burnout: Revenge, Horizon Forbidden West.

  1. Fact #13: Growing up I snuck downstairs past my bedtime to watch reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This probably explains my love for Earl Grey tea.
  2. Fact #5: I lived in Okinawa Japan for half a year in 2006. Want to become best friends? Find me a bottle of Awamori, the local Sake brew.
  3. Fact #7: Through middle school I assumed I'd be some kind of sketch artist, at least until I was handed a programmable TI-82. That little calculator changed my life.
  4. Fact #3: I play D&D weekly. I'm that guy who impulsively pushes big mysterious red buttons, much to my party's dismay. Somehow I've only killed one teammate so far.
  5. Fact #1: My nickname, Parrots, has absolutly nothing to do with my opinion of the species, despite what some accidental Twitter followers may assume (boy they must be confused by my tweets).
  6. Fact #11: We weren't allowed to own a video game system growing up so my grandmother bought “herself” a NES. She ended up rocking at Super Mario Bros 3.
  7. Fact #17: I watched a lot of anime in my 20s, even going to Otakon for 6 years straight. Unfortunately I haven't found as many series I enjoy as of late.
  8. Fact #19: I enjoy most things table-top: RPGs and board games alike. I go to Gen Con every year with my friends as a pilgrimage to appease the dice gods.
  9. Fact #23: ๐Ÿ‚+๐ŸŒฒ=๐Ÿฅ My only major surgery was in early 2015 when I broke my femur in half, requiring a rod to be permanently installed in my bone. I was (awkwardly) walking just a week later, though.
  10. Fact #29: I was in a music video for a rock band. I was “grocery-guy”, where I carried bags of groceries into an elevator where the drummer was playing. You might say I โ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜Ž โ€ฆ had that role in the bag.
  11. Fact #31: My top 5 video games? In no particular order: Sonic 3 + Knuckles, Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger, Burnout: Revenge, Horizon Forbidden West.
  12. Fact #37: I proposed to my wife over Twitter. I was sitting across from her at lunch, and I knew she always checked it then. Of course she decided to wait 5 minutes to actually open the damn app.

Iโ€™m usually building

Slopes on the iPhone and Apple Watch

Slopes

Passion project turned business.

The #1 app for skiers and snowboarders to track their days on the mountain. Winner of an Apple Design Award.

Learn more: getslopes.com.

Slopes on a macbook pro

Sim Genie

Sim Genie unlocks all the hidden secrets of the Xcode simulator, unlocking new development / testing / marketing workflows to make our lives easier.

Learn more: simgenie.app.

But you'll also find me...

Playing

  1. Aliens: Dark Descent
  2. Diablo 4
  3. Star Wars: Jedi Survivor
  4. Need for Speed Unbound
  5. God of War Ragnarok
  6. Metroid Dread
  7. Cyberpunk 2077
  8. Cult of the Lamb
  9. Tiny Tina Wonderlands
  10. Horizon Forbidden West
  11. Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart
  12. Kena Bridge of Spirits
  13. Deathloop
  14. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
  15. Control
  16. Wolfenstein: New Colossus
  17. Wolfenstein: New Order
  18. Star Wars: Squadrons
  19. Miles Morales
  20. Hades
  21. The Last Campfire
  22. Ghost Of Tsushima
  23. The Last of Us Part II
  24. Doom Eternal
  25. Dead Cells
  26. Borderlands 3
  27. Cadence of Hyrule
  28. Spider-Man (PS4)
  29. God of War 4
  30. Kingdom Hearts 1.5
  31. Celeste
  32. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
  33. Breath of the Wild
  34. Axiom Verge
  35. NieR:Automata
  36. Pyre
  37. Doom
  38. Horizon Zero Dawn
  39. Rise of the Tomb Raider
  40. Civilization 6
  41. Uncharted 4
  42. XCOM 2
  43. Uncharted: Nathan Drake Collection
  44. StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void
  45. Journey
  46. Heroes of the Storm
  47. Child of Light
  48. Dragon Age: Inquisition
  49. Civilization: Beyond Earth
  50. Borderlands The Pre-Sequel
  51. The Last of Us: Remastered
  52. Transistor
Find me on Steam, Battle.net, or PSN

Writing

  1. Slopes Diaries #43: Chasing a Goldilocks Business
  2. Slopes Diaries #42: Building Ramps, not Walls
  3. Slopes Diaries #41: Asymptotes
  4. Slopes Diaries #40: The Droid (Stats) You're Looking For
  5. Slopes Diaries #39: Risky Business
  6. Slopes Diaries #38: Android
  7. Slopes Diaries #37: A Commitment to Y-Axis Values
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