Acknowledgments

Noble Carrots is a solo work, but it owes its continued existence and relative quality to many predecessors, competitors, patrons and friends. The site is hosted by Laughing Squid and written in TextEdit and Coda.

The World Wide Web, the Internet, HTML, CSS, PHP and Perl are the sine quibus non of Noble Carrots. I owe everyone who has worked on these systems and languages, just as I owe Matt Mullenweg and the extraordinary WordPress community for providing me a publishing platform.

I can't thank the designer of every game I have enjoyed, but a particular thank you to Gregg Mayles, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Shigeru Miyamoto, Hirokazu Yasuhara and Yuji Naka for sculpting worlds which changed mine.

I owe Michael Abbott, Chris Dahlen and N'Gai Croal for their early (even premature) patronage.

My greatest debt is to those who have read my work and given me feedback on my ideas, habits, style and tone. Thank you to Ben Abraham, Tom Armitage, Corvus Elrod, Daniel Golding, Stephen Greenwood, Peter Hindle, L.B. Jeffries, Alex Myers, John Puddephatt, Kate Simpson, Henry Stanley and Nick Stylianou.

I also owe thanks to those who have influenced my work less directly. Thank you Naomi Alderman, Leigh Alexander, Steve Amodio, Regina Buenaobra, Anthony Burch, David Carlton, Denis Farr, Matthew Gallant, Jerry Holkins, Henry Jenkins, Justin Keverne, Deirdra Kiai, Martin Kitts, Mitch Krpata, Aleks Krotoski and Alex Raymond.

Finally, and crucially, thank you for reading my work. It does not exist except when it is consumed.