Escape Rooms and Puzzles

I craft digital and live interactive escape room puzzle games and creative adventures for global clients with Timberview Productions and in Portland, Oregon at Meridian Adventure Co.

We recently retired our award-winning online time-travel comedy adventure: The Traveler’s Guide to Little Sodaburg.

Sign up for news on our upcoming Portland projects: a crime scene investigation game and pop-up jubensha tabletop sessions.

Immersive and Game Design

My immersive installations focus on storytelling through ephemera, environment, performance, interaction, deduction, and personal reflection.

My game design, narrative design, and world-building includes digital work, interactive fiction, street games, Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), and digital/tabletop board and card games.

See more of my work here.

Non-Fiction Writing

I write about games, film and culture for several outlets and have published two books, Katamari Damacy and Planning Your Escape.

I recently curated a year-long series of dates in films with Letterboxd.

Community Development and Engagement

As a long-time community manager, I’m committed to inclusive and safe community spaces. I proudly serve on the board of the Portland Indie Game Squad (PIGSquad).

Immersive history and archiving

The Center for Immersive Arts is my project dedicated to preserving, exploring and educating about the history of immersive arts. For our first project, we restored the Unfiction.com forums as a static archive.

Want to support this work and help preserve the history of immersive art and entertainment? Join the Patreon now!

Speaking and Workshops

Want me to speak at your event? Reach out here.

I do public speaking, appear on panels, and host workshops on the topics of escape rooms, environmental storytelling, immersive design, narrative puzzles, and immersive history, including the origins of alternate reality games (ARGs) and immersive theater.

…and more!

You can hear me on the podcast Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games, a group of game developers who have candid conversations with game creators that dive deep into the art, craft, and process of making games.

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Is it possible to find a man based on his photograph and first name? The Find Satoshi project, about a puzzle finally solved after 15 years, proves that the answer is, “Yes!”