I’m hoping to revive my blog as my new semester begins. I’m starting on my PhD here at Georgia Tech with a lot of cool things on the horizon. This summer I began co-authoring a book on Newsgames with Ian Bogost and Simon Ferrari. I was tasked with writing the infographics and platforms chapters, while also contributing a bit to the chapter on documentary games (though we have Simon to thank for most of that). It’s been a pretty cool experience and definitely the best way to spend a summer. We’re continuing to work on the Newsgames project, adding to the blog and seeing what a whole new group of students has to say about this topic we’ve been entrenched in for the last year.

I’m also the research-wrangler for a new group in the Experimental Games Lab! It’s being coordinated by my advisor Celia Pearce and will involve anyone who is interested in any aspect of the topic. We’re researching spaces–game, virtual, physical–from all sorts of angles. The topic is pretty broad, so it’s going to start with areas that further the group’s individual research needs. I’ll be posting about some of the research here while also working on a website for the research group.

Eventually I’m going to put my thesis online, which I promised back in the spring. I still believe it needs a professional edit, just to ensure there are no dumb mistakes I missed in my 100+ pages. I’ll be pulling papers out of it to submit to journals and conferences, as well as some more blog posts like the one on public and private spaces.

Oh! And the Low Score podcast continues to roll on with it’s 27th episode. I always forget that I can post that here, so you really should give it a subscribe!