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    I’m one of the author’s in the 2022 opdc (didn’t win anything, still trying to bear up under the shame…

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    Thank you for this very interesting collection, and for wrestling with the obviously mixed feelings on this anniversary. And thank…

Category: Writing

  • SHOOTER in StoryBundle

    A few months ago I was honored to be invited by Reid McCarter (@reidmccarter) and Patrick Lindsey (@HanFreakinSolo) to contribute the foreward to an anthology they were editing called Shooter. It's a collection of essays about first-person shooters and their place and relevance within the larger context of media and culture. The fifteen chapters are contributed…

  • Ten Years Down

    I realized earlier today that it’s been ten years since Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory shipped. Obviously, a lot has changed in that time, but I’m not going to wax nostalgic about that. I thought instead I would regale you a never before made public tale of what that game meant to me. Chaos Theory was…

  • IFOG Symposium

    Last week I was able to attend UCSC's Inventing the Future of games Symposium in Mountainview. Overall, I foudn the conference to be super interesting as it brought together a diverse range people who are working on the problems of dynamic narratives using a wide range of approaches. I gave a short presentation (slides and…

  • Guitar Hero III – Dole Nostalgia

    So I finally managed to find Guitar Hero 3, and started playing it yesterday. It’s tight and polished and I’m really enjoying it so far. It seems a little tougher than Guitar Hero 2, but that’s okay… I find Hard to be too damn hard and Medium on GH2 was a bit too easy, so…

  • Ninjas, Witches and Bubble Universes

    Decided to post another of my short stories; The Enigmatic Orb of Doctor Makharov or A Late Lunch at The Apologetic Gaijin. Some things I really love about this story, but some experimental elements that I never really got to work right. Not as funny as the last one I posted – but a lot…

  • blood and clowns – together at last

    So since I haven’t kept up my end of the bargain in terms of putting up new posts, I thought I would at least upload some more free stuff. For those of you too intimidated by the shocking brilliance of my thesis novel and looking for some more ‘entry level’ Hocking material I have uploaded…