I’m beginning to think that I should schedule all my business meetings for the morning. Today I had a really great meeting with a client I hadn’t seen face-to-face in way too long, a fellow who I really respect and with whom I really enjoy chatting – at 10 AM at the local coffeeshop. This left the afternoon for going to the bank, getting groceries, talking to people online about the next Inkblots (which is shaping up to be quite a fantastic issue, if all the people who have agreed to contribute stuff send in things a third as cool as their usual output)… It was beautiful weatherwise to boot, and I got to walk around for a while in the early afternoon with a friend. All in all, a really good day, and it’s ending way too quickly.
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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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