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Current stack of reading and drinking

No One Belongs Here More Than You – Miranda July (tomorrow I’m going to give it to Julia, who isn’t expecting it) Game Feel – Steve Swink (though I told him I can’t progress until he finishes his code examples) Paso Robles 2003 Zinfandel Port Non-Programmers Tutorial for Python – Josh Cogliati Geometry and Meaning [...]

blastos from the past

A recent conversation with progrium reminded me of an academic paper I wrote in 1994 about “the network” as a recurring metaphor in feminist philosophy.  I dug it up off my old 286 archives and cleaned it up here for your amusement (sans a few citations). The Network: modulation of a feminist metaphor Among other [...]

Quick catchup (incomplete)

There’s so much to talk about; I’ve become a bit immobilized!  It always takes a few days (weeks?) to recover from GDC, and since like most of us I came down with a cold as soon as I returned, it’s only now that I’m resurfacing a little.  I promise I will soon upload the slides [...]

gaba aba

EMERGENCY.  TANK AND CHOPPER CAN DESTROY THE CALCULATOR IN WHICH THE BEE FARMERS ARE HIDING, THEN RUN OVER THE BEE FARMERS AND SHOOT ALL THE BEES. THE ROBOT SPIDERS, WHO ARE FRIENDS OF THE BEES, CAN BE DESTROYED. THE SOUND OF THE EXPLODING SPIDERS ATTRACTED THE STEALTH SHIPS. THE BOSS HAS THREE EYES SEPARATE FROM [...]

Adventures of a third wheel

Sorry for the lack of updates! I just gave my keynote presentation (subject: how games can motivate social change) at the Nordic Game Jam, the biggest event of the Global Game Jam happening this weekend.   After 2 days in airports waiting for bad weather to clear, I’m running on 2 hours of sleep, 2 cuban [...]

What this is

I will write about the various projects I am working on, in a public sort of way.  I will be mostly candid, but protect the innocent.   I might get bored and go away some day; it happens.  But until then…. I crave rapport.