Whew! So, on Friday night Jenny, Nick, Nick, Lisa and her boy Eric (who is a quite cool fellow, I should say) all gathered at the house for pizza and movies to help me celebrate the big 2-5. Most excellent conversation and camaraderie was enjoyed by all. Then, on Saturday, my folks came out from Ohio and took a handful of us out to dinner at Legal Sea Foods, one of my favorite restaraunts down here. And then today, my folks and Nick Ferraro and I all went out to the International Spy Museum, over to the Old Post Office for lunch and then down to Georgetown and The Art Store, where I picked up a really, really cool desktop easel to help me do some new drawings for my portfolio and my Christmas cards and so on. What a great weekend. Thanks, everybody – you guys rock.
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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