This weekend I availed myself of Dotster’s Memorial Day sale – half off all .com, .net and .org domains with the right code, and please don’t start in with the “Yeah, but so-and-so is always cheaper, blah blah” because I’ve used Dotster since like 2002 and am a faithful customer, so there – and now a couple of long-term oddities have been rectified. First, geofflong.com now redirects people to the appropriate site, geoffreylong.com, and (thank you, Ivan) tipofthequill.com now redirects people here. Similarly, bonesoftheangel.com, neverjack.com and winterchildren.com all redirect people to my Writing page. These little domains may not mean much now, but if I ever turn these stories into full-fledged books, games, movies or whatever, I’ll have my bases covered.
Aside from that, I spent my day dealing with little projects that had been piling up while I was otherwise occupied with school stuff – primarily cutting articles out of magazines, scanning them, adding them into my database and chucking the remains. I figure I’ve reclaimed several feet of shelf space today alone. Go me.
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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