Wow, I absolutely pwn a Google search for Geoffrey Long. Almost the entire first two pages are me. This makes me feel better about one particular aspect of my future professional path: the rising popularity of another writer, Jeff Long, who actually writes the same kind of stuff that I do! His novel The Descent is especially up my alley. I’ve been wondering about what would happen if a would-be reader walked into a bookstore, walked to the L’s , and then saw books by Jeff Long and Geoffrey Long right next to each other. At first I was concerned that they’d get us confused, but the more I think about it the more I think that it’ll be fine as long I don’t start publishing as Geoff Long or he starts publishing as Jeffrey Long. What do you guys think?
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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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