Laura and I arrived safe and sound in Boston late last night, with little to no trouble from Fawkes the Benz (that we didn’t *totally* bring upon ourselves, anyway). I am now sitting in a mild disaster of a house half-disassembled from one roommate leaving, staring at today as the one day that serves as the empty square in one of those tile-sliding puzzles. Today my goal is simple: move as much of my stuff into its new homes to clear room for the other stuff to slide around afterwards. Hopefully this will not be as nightmarish as it sounds; mercifully I’m only moving rooms inside of one house this weekend, as opposed to actually swapping entire houses; one suspects this will make life exponentially easier, but one has certainly been wrong before…
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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