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Since I announced my transition to Microsoft, I’ve gotten two specific questions a lot from people. The number one question was if I was relocating, which, I am not. Though I do hope to get around a lot this year, I am settled back into the Reading, PA area. The number two question I seem…

My survey on Moral Choices in gaming turned out very interesting and I wanted the results to be shared as widely as I could. I submitted a writeup of the results to the Journal of Games Criticism, and after peer review it was accepted! Please go check it out and read all the other interesting…

This morning I realized that I should dig out of my inbox. So I’m working on checking out things that I prioritized for myself to do last year, but never got around to. A lot of it – a lot of it – is playing new or pre-released betas of indie games that I’ve been…

I’m still writing this week at Tap-Repeatedly. In particular, I put together a long essay on Bioshock Infinite: http://tap-repeatedly.com/2013/12/bioshock-infinite-literacy/ My thesis here, since the article gets a bit rambly, is that there’s pretty good reasons for the violence in the game and why it needed to be a shooter. I actually really liked Infinite, but…

Thanks to a little bump from Reddit my survey got popular! I have almost enough results to call it good. If you haven’t checked it out yet, I would be very happy to have more responses at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GamesMoralChoices I will be shutting the survey down November 15. Thank you!

I’m doing some research about how people tackle moral choices in games. If you’re seeing this, it would be very helpful to me for you to fill out this survey, and pass it on to other gamers that you know. I plan to leave it up for at least a month. Signal boosts are appreciated.…

Just a note to officially announce here that I am speaking at the IGDA Summit: http://www.igda.org/summit/speakers/ Scope that awesome speaker lineup! I’m doing a talk focused on student issues for those who are still nervous about “breaking in” (or those considering becoming a game dev student, or those without a degree that might feel nervous…

A YouTube has been set up showing the talks from the Gotland Game Conference! Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-uLI3C6lyvSvXmwnk1aGXS8qU-HTnxXN Some great talks today from Sara Lempiänen and Tobias S from Stardoll, Tom Abernathy from Microsoft, Heidi McDonald from Schell, and Will Bonner from Yeti CGI. My talk should go up there sometime tomorrow (after I give…

I have a new post on Tap-Repeatedly about Let’s Plays: http://tap-repeatedly.com/2013/05/lets-watch-lets-plays/

We went live yesterday with the new site, and I’m really excited! Check out what we’ve been working on at http://www.gamesprout.com The goal: transparent crowd-sourced game design. I’m excited about the possibility of hearing from some new voices and helping people to refine their game ideas into something tangible. Regular blogging will resume… probably after…