- P=R=O=G=R=A=M=M=A=T=O=L=O=G=Y. E-poet Cayley is coming to MIT this fall.
- The Majestic Documents. ‘Majestic’ is apparently the US UFO program.
- Three Rings’ nautical office. Looks like an awesome place.
- Because We Can. The geniuses responsible for said office.
- NYT: No Thanks, Mr. Nabokov. Great rejection blunders in publication history.
- The Anime Bento Festival. FMA on the big screen! Cool!
- Kazu Kibuishi’s Amulet. Can’t wait – I’m a big fan of Copper.
- New Uru ep coming to GameTap. Self, check this out.
- NYT: Warner shifts course on online video. Promising.
- NYT: Ashbery named the MTVu Poet Laureate. Odd but cool.
- Knytt Stories. Very sweet-looking indie game.
- Lost Garden on Knytt Stories. Analysis of said game.
- Darth Totoro. *cackle*
- Play This Thing. New game-critic blog… ‘Metroidvania’?
- Metroidvania. Huh.
- Denis Dyack: The Media is the Massage. Possibly the best new friend I made at AGDC.
- Celia Pearce. Another contender for best new AGDC friend.
- Valkyrie of the Battlefield. Maybe I do need a PS3.
- Hiromichi Tanaka at AGDC. I missed this one, alas.
- WETA gear. I so want a WETA scarf.
- The Atlantic: Quirked Around. Still chewing this over.
- NYT: Can the Mortgage Crisis Swallow a Town? Save Cleveland!
- Native iPhone apps. I gotta get Zork on this thing.
- Zork on the iPhone. Exactly.
- Coraline poster. *covet*
- Jason Mittell on tenure and online publishing. Hrmmm.
- CFP: ELO 2008 Conference. Hrmmm.
- CFP: Eludamos. Hrmmm.
- CFP: GDC Lyon. Hrmmm.
- London Games Festival 2007. Hrmmm.
- Gaiman’s teaching at Clarion!? Whoa.
- Brautigan on nature and technology. Again, exactly.
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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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