[sean-duffy]

Interesting to see that this seems like it might be a theme at game dev places. I remember reading in Masters of Doom about developers constructing similar makeshift structures to shield their workspaces from light at John Romero's company, Ion Storm.

[egypturnash]

Id and Ion Storm are/were both in Texas. There’s a lot of sun there. Enough that you can afford to hide from it.

Anecdotally, I was a lot more nocturnal when I lived in New Orleans than when I lived in Boston and Seattle. It’s impossible to get too much sun up here, but down in the tropics, that’s a definite problem.

[db48x]

Also, weren't they on the top floor with a glass ceiling? Direct sunlight glaring down on me is very annoying, but sunlight that has reflected off of the grass or filtered through the trees outside my window is fine. It not all coming from the same direction, and all the infrared has been absorbed.