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?
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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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