I just wanted to post a quick note here to say that if it seems like I’ve been extraordinarily quiet lately, it’s because most of my writing hasn’t been for public consumption. Today saw the publication of a 3,800+ word piece for the members-only C3 Newsletter titled “Winning the Console Wars with User-Generated Content”, last month I wrote an 1800-word piece called “Uncommon Wiisdom” and C3 just published my first white paper, which was a beast of a mini-book on, um, an emergent media form that wasn’t video games. I’m never quite sure how much I’m allowed to talk about C3 work here, to be honest, but I don’t think the titles of two articles will get me in much trouble. I just wanted to say that I have been writing, just not as much on this here blog. Hopefully that will change soon, in some way, shape or form.
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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