Another very fun client project this year was a consultation with AKQA, developing concept, design, user experience, and story for an escape room at New York Comic Con 2017 for Amazon. Continue reading
Category Archives: things I made
Emoticode Call Of Duty: WWII Twitch Streaming Cipher Challenge
My team and I created a cipher challenge created in partnership with Twitch and Activision to promote the upcoming video game Call of Duty: WWII. Continue reading
Ephemera-Based Storytelling at Now Play This Games Exhibition in London

(Photographer: Ben Peter Catchpole)
In April, I had the privilege of creating a newly-commissioned art/play piece, “The Silence in Room 1258” for Now Play This, a games festival in London. Situated in an antique desk, the game is a self-paced examination of ephemera from a 1930s Hollywood hotel after a paranormal incident. Continue reading
GDC 2017 Talk on YouTube
My 2017 GDC talk on how the physical and cognitive experiences of escape room game players applies to VR is now on YouTube!
Now Play This Festival—This Weekend!
If you’re in London this weekend, you can now play The Silence in Room 1258, the small, quiet sort of thing I made for the Now Play This 2017 exhibition! It was created for people who, like me, enjoy nosing through dusty old letters, and piecing stories together from what they find there.