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1. YesBoxDec 2025
   This year I've been diving into Game dev books and Harry Potter fan fiction. There's a lot of great reads out there. I assume having an entire world built for you removes a lot of the heavy lifting (as a writer).

   GameDev:

   - The Masters of Doom

   - The Doom Guy

   - Play Nice

   - Press Reset

   - Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

   - Console Wars

   - Ask Iwata

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   HP Fanfic:

   - All The Young Dudes (by MsKingBean89) [student life of the Marauders]

   - Grey Space (by noaacat) [Pre Hogwarts. Focuses on parental abuse. One scene I'll never forget (paraphrasing) is when another student at school notices Harry's bruises, slides up her sleeve, and implies she slipped too]

   - Just started the Glasslight series (noaacat).

   I also reread the entire Harry Potter series, and revisited a handful of Redwall books. I find it interesting how I loved RW as a kid/teen, was bored out of my mind with it in my 20s, and now I love it again.

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