Waltzing Mehtilde

In the early 2000’s, I discovered a piece of software that changed the way I thought about procedural systems and virtual worlds.

As engineers move into senior roles (title dilution not withstanding—”senior” here means many years of practice), their work becomes less and less about writing code all day.

Raph Koster is reaching for the stars with a big idea called Stars Reach.

Brad Feld once wrote a little gem called Something New is Fucked Up In My World Every Day.

The scene is all too familiar: A whiteboard (real or virtual), a distracted interviewer with little time or patience, and a contrived problem to solve in thirty minutes.

Jaron Lanier has another great piece called “How to Picture A.I” in the New Yorker.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo.

I grew up in a little town in the western part of Kentucky, in a stereotypical farm economy just east of the breadbasket.

Newzoo has mobile gaming on track for an estimated $70 billion in global revenues this year — 51% of the total game market.

Growing up in Kentucky, I fell in love with video games, one coin at a time, in arcades.