I have returned from Washington, D.C., and am (as expected) having one of those days where there’s something that has to be done everywhere I look. I am therefore going to be largely unavailable all day while I catch up client stuff, answer emails, tidy house, work out, etc. Sheesh.
On the upside, I may finally be within sight of finishing up a couple of things that I’ve been working on for years, so that has me excited. Also, in an explosion of complete lack of self-control, I stopped at The Apple Store on the way home from O’Hare last night and picked up my own copy of Tiger. So far it’s pretty cool, with the biggest improvements for me being Dashboard and the new Dictionary tool, wherein one selects an unfamiliar word and presses control-command-D and a definition appears. I’m sure I’ll post more about this as the week goes on. Right now, though, there’s a huge G signal up in the sky. I’m needed – in way too many places at once!
Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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