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Let’s Play Kentucky Route Zero 13 May 2013 | 08:38 pm
I was lucky enough to be on the narrative jury this year for the Independent Games Festival. One of my favourite games was Kentucky Route Zero, a lovely point-and-click adventure with an anachronistic...
Wonderland: A Solvitur Ambulando Mystery 7 May 2013 | 04:52 am
Do you know the Latin phrase “solvitur ambulando”? Used by the wandering scholars of medieval Europe, it means “walking solves it”. It’s always been true for me, as someone for whom walking is both wo...
Untitled 19 Apr 2013 | 02:25 am
Heading to Chicago next week for a cool Let’s Play game event (organized by the designer of the amazing Kentucky Route Zero) and the Q&A for the Chicago Anarchist Film Festival screening of GHOSTS.
Take Your Seashells Out of Your Ears! 2 Apr 2013 | 10:34 pm
Today is the launch of KTR 451, a game I developed for the Toronto Public Library. Drawing on the themes and characters in Fahrenheit 451 (the TPL’s One Book this year), it’s a simple alternate realit...
Pipe Trouble 6 Mar 2013 | 10:39 am
Pipe Trouble is an arcade-style game like many of the “pipe-connecting” genre — except you’re connecting natural gas pipelines in Alberta. Build too close to farms and livestock and risk incurring an ...
Why Q&A’s are Eff’n A 13 Feb 2013 | 05:54 am
Heading to the west coast this Friday for the San Francisco Indie Film Fest screenings (as well as doing a reading and then a talk at UCLA). At this point we’ve attended almost a dozen screenings of G...
GHOSTS Plays Cloud City: iTunes, Amazon, Xbox & PS3 15 Jan 2013 | 04:29 am
Put your trillion dollar coins away! Ghosts With Shit Jobs is available to rent for as little as $4.99. Our lo-fi sci-fi mockumentary about the slums of Toronto in 2040 is now in wide digital release ...
GHOSTS screening and Q&A, Vancouver 6 Dec 2012 | 05:03 am
Just booked the Vancouver screening for Ghosts With Shit Jobs (Tickets | Facebook) for two weeks hence — that makes it a round dozen! Been a while since I been in the city, looking forward to it. Clic...
Award Loot and Undoing the Ending 11 Nov 2012 | 07:18 am
The verdict is in: people really liked Guilded Youth (it just took 3rd in the Interactive Fiction Competition, and 1st in the Ms. Congeniality competition) but hated the ending. Of the fourteen or so ...
Guilded Youth, a text game with ASCII animation 4 Oct 2012 | 03:01 am
I’ve just submitted a game to the Interactive Fiction Competition that you can play now if you like. You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. ...
