About

Posted by Chief Experimenter on September 1, 2006.

Alien Experiment Laboratories is a one-man software studio (literally back-bedroom) founded in 2006 and based near Roanoke, Virginia.

Our aim is to produce fun stuff (games, mostly) for the Linux and Sinclair ZX Spectrum platforms. Some of this may be open source, some proprietary/commercially released. It all depends what I feel is appropriate or reasonable in each case.

Don’t expect a high output of projects here. This is strictly a hobbyist effort, to give me a creative outlet in the one area where I’m a competent creator.

I won’t be developing for Windows. Ever. I don’t support companies which use bully-boy tactics, blatantly rip off ideas, and make unfounded accusations just to create doubt in the marketplace and try to stifle competition. I’m with the innovators and inventors here (or at least I aspire to be), and companies like Microsoft are a threat to every software developer who wants to do those things. I guess they hate what they can never be…

The Journal is intended as a sort of rolling commentary on the development of whatever I’m working on, and as a place where I can post small items of note (like bits of code) or news updates in general.