So for various reasons, my brain has been moving further and further from web development and closer and closer to storytelling. This is fitting, seeing as how I’ll be starting classes in Cambridge in three weeks, but it’s problematic since I’m also feverishly trying to cram in all the stuff I want to do here in Chicago before I go and polish off all my client stuff. Jeezus. So it didn’t help when this morning I stumbled across the weblog of John August, who happens to be the screenwriter for Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Big Fish. The next thing I knew, it was 11 o’clock and I’m still sitting in my bathrobe going click, click, click. Rats.
Fascinating, fascinating stuff, but do not start reading unless you have a little time on your hands. You have been warned.
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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