This weekend I have been partly celebrating my indpendence from the keyboard. Hence, few updates, and some storytelling to do this evening when I get a chance. Still, for those of you surfing my way on a lazy Sunday wind-up to the holiday weekend, may I heartily recommend Counting Flags, a Fray story by my friend Kevin Smokler. Great story. Go to, go to.
As a sidenote, I should start officially plugging the fact that Inkblots will be participating in Kevin’s first ever Virtual Book Tour, coming up right quick. Our Summer edition, slated to launch in like two weeks, will include an excerpt from the book of choice (which I’m not sure if I’m allowed to plug yet or not). More soapboxing on that to follow.
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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