Have you ever worked on the same side project for almost a decade? Have you ever entirely rewritten a side project before you released it? Have you ever done that twice? All before your 26th birthday? Yeah, me neither. Zach has been writing and refactoring code on the same personal project for awhile and it's a very compelling, very ambitious project which is the kind thing that only someone equally passionate about gaming and coding would even try to attempt.

We have a far-ranging conversation about many things, including what game development was like in the early days of Steam, Final Fantasy Tactics, abusing your parents' printer, the single most important thing you can do to succeed in college computer science classes, a rare shoutout to Darthlupi, and a ton of insight into both the technical aspects and personal realities of working on a side project for a really long time.