About

I’m a Senior Product Manager at a serious game company, which basically means I’m a Game Designer. A Game Designer by day, an aspiring screenwriter by night, and in my spare time I try to merge the two into something new – interactive drama.

Of course I’m not the first to try this; the pursuit of interactive drama is paramount to discovering the Northwest Passage.

That imagined route came to be known as the Northwest Passage, a myth that would beguile explorers for centuries.

What looks simple in theory proves very difficult in practice. However I think we’ll be able to break through that with more experimentation and given the incredible growth of social games I think we’re about to see hundreds of explores in search of that Northwest Passage. Social games have found a captive audience looking not for just games but for interactive entertainment and I’m guessing developers will eventually begin to experiment with more story based products like visual novels and dating sims – already popular in Japan. Being impatient however I can’t wait and have begun working on my own twist on a dating sim. But more on that later.

Interesting Facts

I’ve been through every town in Iowa – Rode RAGBRAI for a couple of years as part of Team CO2
Played paintball on the competitive circuit – Mostly just picked up MVP and Sportsmanship awards
Once worked as a junior whiskey distiller at Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey – Despite the fact that I don’t drink whiskey
Built snowboards for B-Line – All before all the industry consolidation