My name is Matthew Gallant. I occasionally use the handle “Gangles” online, the ghost of a nickname from my days as a gangly teenager. I am a Canadian citizen (from Montréal, Québec) living abroad in Austin, Texas. I studied software engineering at Concordia University, and am currently working as a game designer at LightBox Interactive.
I started writing The Quixotic Engineer as a student in June 2007. I tend to write about game design, programming, music and projects I am currently working on. The word “quixotic” is derived from Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote; it describes “a person or an act that is caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals. It also serves to describe an idealism without regard to practicality.”
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