My favorite web-dev shop in the world gets a nifty writeup in today’s NYT: History and Science: The Video Games profiles Second Story, as “how it invents techniques to use these platforms, and who it recruits to do that work is a journey that large media companies should watch”. Just yesterday I was making up a list of possible options for life post-THESIS and Option Four was to return to the web development industry. If that happens, Second Story is one of the companies I’d love to work for – despite its requiring a relocation to the Pacific Northwest. It’s not Ohio, but I do love me some Portland – and hey, I’d get to spend copious amounts of time (and money) at Powell’s, so how bad could that be?
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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