Playing From Another Room
I’ve been obsessed with TRNTBL, a clever website that streams music modified to sound like it’s playing from another room. There’s something voyeuristic about it. It’s annoying even, as you may love a song but when someone else is playing it from afar, like some idiot neighbor, it forms some other meaning. Something interesting is […]
I actually finished a fairly new game.
I just finished THIMBLEWEED PARK, the new adventure game from the makers of MANIAC MANSION, the game that probably kept my local video store afloat.
GeoGearheads Podcast
I was a guest on the GeoGearHeads podcast to talk about the intersection of geolocation gaming and storytelling! Please give it a listen.
Origins and running code
I started my illustrious geocaching career on a whim, sparked by CODERUNNER, a game that I didn’t even play until five years later.
Doodling Vignettes
The release of the HIDDEN FOLKS game took me on a whirlwind nostalgia tour of Where’s Waldo, Richard Scarry, and more. It’s a cute little game.
Ill-thought Hidden
I explore the OUTTHINK HIDDEN augmented reality, location-based app built to promote the HIDDEN FIGURES movie.
Geocaching Robot
I’ve created a Twitter bot about geocaching! Also wrote a quick post about how the idea came to be and lessons learned.
Turning any page
I recently finished a book, ARCADIA, by Iain Pears which turned out to be astonishingly good. A bit about it and the accompanying interactive fiction app.
I’m keeping a list
I’m supremely jealous of BLACKBOX, a puzzle game on iOS. It uses every sensor in your phone to maximum effect for some ingenious puzzles. I wish I had thought of it first.
Don’t pick up the phone
I dove into the Mr. Robot TV show after learning that an app, a work of interactive fiction, was being released as a promotion for the show. I downloaded Mr. Robot:1.51exfiltrati0n.ipa to my phone and got to hacking.
