Batten down the hatches, me hearties — there’s a massive hurricane rolling its way into Boston as I type this. Am I worried? Hells no — I ran out to the store first thing this morning to stock up on milk, batteries, and, um, a copy of Day Watch (which I never got to see in the theaters and have been dying to see ever since, thankyouverymuch). And, if the power cuts out, I have a great whopping pile of books that I happen to be in the middle of to finish. How this will affect my admittedly meager labor on the NaNoWriMo front is anybody’s guess, however.
Still, this is my first weekend at home in nearly a month, and I’m so completely and utterly thrilled to do as little as possible. I still have a bunch of little loose ends to work on, like my presentation for Futureplay and various and sundry other projects, but still… No travel for me today! Woo!
Bring on the rain!
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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