

The Spot: Catalyst of Change
On my last day of vacation, I find myself experiencing extreme anxiety about returning to my routine - making up for my absence at a stressful job, working with an indie start-up, getting back into exercising, apartment hunting, social media management, writing targeted blog entries. But as I sat down to tackle some work just now, I realized that I'm sitting in the very chair where I wrote my GDC narrative analysis and my Conference Associate application essay just 5-ish mont


Narrative Design Panelist & 3 Games Featured at Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festiv
This past weekend, the following three games on which I worked were featured at the event: Relic, Miraculous, and Lightmare. In addition, I was a panelist on a game design panel at the Seattle Transmedia & Independent Film Festival, called, "So You Want to be a Game Designer?" Here are some clips of my contribution to the panel: why I decided to pursue game design: here the influence of narrative in games & practical applications of AR and VR: here ideas about how to use game

Chapter 1 of Opal's Imagipen (children's story)
Excerpt from Opal's Imagipen http://www.desktopwallpapers4.me/artistic/girl-painting-the-rainbow-8623/ Chapter 1 The Questionable Sincerity of Gentleparrots “Just a few minutes more,” Opal said, tossing back her blond hair and adding the finishing touches to her most recent easel animal – a triceratops, which was having an uncommon amount of trouble keeping still, as far as triceratops went. Its blue tail and green horns dried more quickly than its orange body, so blurs of b