I have a few projects I’m working on.

Apologies for the secrecy- for most of my personal projects it’s unwarranted but I don’t think I really like my effort being too apparent in the things that I do. It’s an odd behavioral tick that was rewarded in college.

Anyway, in the immediate future I’ll be posting about the following projects:

• My girlfriend and I just started developing a sort of strategy game. We have put a larger cinematic platformer (think: old Prince of Persia) on hiatus because I thought this strategy game could produce some quick wins sooner, being easier to animate for and having more recyclable assets.
• I’m working with some colleagues to assemble materials and do a test run for a podcast/video series on Game Studies. We came up with this idea for a few reasons: For one, there isn’t much accessible stuff out there on serious game studies. There are a few series about game criticism or game design, and even they tend to be more about the craft and the culture. There’s a lot of academic literature out there, though, and it’s mostly poorly publicized and understood. Second, it seems like a great niche to dig into and develop some expertise (and ideally attract some attention to that expertise)- we’re all interested in that side of things. Third, for me anyway, a deeper exploration into the field could inform my work and reading in my usual blog topics- the intersection between people behavior and system behavior.
• I will probably not talk much about my actual job, or the healthcare startup I’m driving. I don’t think that’s terribly appropriate.
• I have many friends also doing interesting work. With their permission I might scribble on lessons I learned from their adventures.
• Maybe I’ll be more granular about my progress on my Five Week Plans that I set out dictatorially at the end of every month.

I think that this part of the site will be distinct in tone and theme from my other blog, probably, although my daily goings-on obviously will feed into both. I’ll see how this goes as I do it, and later I’ll evaluate how I’m doing with this, or if it’s necessary, or if it should feed back into the main blog.