Me and My Work
Lone Wolf Anthology: Volume Two - Echoes of the Past is now available for purchase. In it, you'll find my illustration Jupe (2024) along with Mark Baumann's story, The Legend of Vynar Jupe. If you'd like to hear glowing praise heaped upon us by the editor and a the two hosts of the Journeys Through Magnamund podcast, it starts at 23:30.
4th Wall Games is my company with Dr. Mark Baumann. Our innagural game, Harrowing Adventures is sadly no longer in production. It was fun while it lasted and our demo got a great reception where we showed it, but we are no longer working on that project. But, we keep kicking around ideas for carving it up and using its bones in other projects, because there was a lot of cool stuff there. I make make a post about this.
The Chronicle covered the return of Staple! and yours truly was mentioned.
The Lindenbaum Prize Competition is an annual competition for short gamebook fiction generously hosted by Stuart Lloyd. Here are links to my official entries for the 2022, 2023, and 2024 and 2025 competitions.
One of my early mods, Even Stranger Adventures in Infinite Space, which is a mod for Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, is still downloadable! Working on this is what kept me going through my undergraduate physcis degree (with a side order of translating ancient Greek). If I were a little smarter, I probably would have realized that this is what I should be doing. It was met with a glowing reception by the developers, and some of the ideas I came up with showed up in their next game, Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space. I also made a mod for that, can you guess what it was called? That game was more complex and interesting, but was pretty limited in terms of modding.
Current Obsessions
Video Games: I was looking for another game and discovered there's a whole second world in Freeways, so I've been trying to get all the stars in that world. But I'm probably going to make a switch and start playing a lot of grid-based dungeon crawlers soon. I played Vaporium, and didn't like it.
Board Games: While visiting my cousin Keri, I started playing Vlaada Chvátil's Space Alert. I love it. It takes about ten minutes to play and another ten to sort out what happened, which is generally that things got confused and went hilariously awry.
TV/Film: I've been watching Severance and The Pitt, but I'm dying for the second season of Andor since that musical trailer came out.
Podcast/YouTube: I've been watching that Jenny Nicholson Star Wars Hotel video again, but I also discovered Angela Collier recently. She has some Jenny Nicholson vibes, but is also a physicist, so that part of my brain gets to be activated while listening to her, which I love.
Links for Students
If you're in Austin, you should be keeping a close eye on @atxgamedevcal.bsky.social to know what's happening.
IGDA Austin has been an incredible help to me in my career. They host events and sometimes even provide booth space at local events. I can't begin to express how helpful that was to me early on.
Game Worlds is an awesome local business and summer job opportunity for students. They also host Portfolio Posse North.
The Museum of Human Achievement is a "community-driven space grounded in affordability, inclusivity and access for artists." Importantly, they filled the role of local indie developer event host after the dissolution of Juegos Rancheros. Games Y'all is their monthly indie game event, and they've even brought Fantastic Arcade back.
Just to round out the Austin links, check out ATX Game Makers, Austin Glitch State, and Austin Game Dev Beer Night. Beer drinking is not required for that last one.