Author: PatientRock

An Adventure, Lab

Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019 by PatientRock

I was awarded an Adventure Lab! It’s a new project and app from Geocaching for location-based adventures. Casting about for ideas, I set my sights on a nearby infamous dueling ground.

Déjà vu and Men in Black: Global Invasion

Posted on November 15, 2019March 25, 2020 by PatientRock

I’ve been playing the augmented reality-tinged location-based game, Men in Black: Global Invasion and can’t help but feel a tremendous sense of déjà vu. I feel like I’ve played this game before.

Pinball is new again (to me)

Posted on October 11, 2019March 25, 2020 by PatientRock

There’s nothing I love more than gaming, maps, and lists I can check off. The new age of pinball has embraced those things and I’ve joined the hunt.

It’s a dirty job.

Posted on August 17, 2019August 17, 2019 by PatientRock

The heroes are gone, leaving a mess of blood and alien body parts. The video game Viscera Cleanup Detail has hired me to get things back into shape.

Narrascope Presentation_Location Based Game

Video of my NarraScope talk!

Posted on July 24, 2019September 9, 2021 by PatientRock

My Narrascope conference presentation about writing and developing location-based games and experiences is now available for your viewing pleasure.

Visiting the VoxPopcast!

Posted on July 8, 2019November 16, 2022 by PatientRock

I joined the lovely folks over at The VoxPopcast to talk about augmented reality and location-based gaming.

Out of energy with Wizards Unite

Posted on June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 by PatientRock

The Harry Potter-themed Wizards Unite takes Niantic’s city bias up a notch in this location-based game follow-up to Pokémon Go.

Jurassic World Alive location based game

I like making the dinos fight in Jurassic World Alive.

Posted on June 11, 2019June 11, 2019 by PatientRock

The weather is warm and dinosaurs are running amok in my neighborhood. It was time to try out Jurassic World Alive, a prehistoric location-based game.

Bustin’ makes me feel… ok?

Posted on April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 by PatientRock

I reluctantly started the location based game GHOSTBUSTERS WORLD and came to enjoy it more than the game it copies, despite some glaring issues.

Wolverine: The Long Night

Posted on March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 by PatientRock

A long drive for work today meant I could finally listen to the Wolverine: The Long Night podcast produced by Marvel and Stitcher. It’s really, really good.