Signal Loves Noise
Multimedia story, interactive entertainment, and creative technology. Contents include neurodivergent creativity, careful disorderliness, willful misreadings, and imperfectionism.
Workshop Contraptions and Wind-Up Keys
I often work in games and games-adjacent media. But I’m a terrible player of games. It takes me an unreasonably long time to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing. I never remember what all the buttons do. My approach to controllers could be charitably called “flailing.” So I often quit on games. There are usually two points when that happens. The first is early on. The beginning of playing a new game is always a struggle, as I try to push through all of my confusion, while a voice in my...
We Are The Robots
Yes, this is yet another piece about AI. It's not like people have been coming up to me on the street crying, "Sir, Sir! I must know what you think!" But for a long time I've made my living at the intersection of technology and storytelling, and so debate and worrying and prognosticating about AI has taken over all the conversations in just about every creative community I'm in for the past couple of years. Especially among writers. Of the creative communities I'm a part of, some are...
Declaration of Principles
Hello friends! If you’re used to getting a sporadic Substack from me, don’t panic! You’re in the right place. I hope you’ll continue with me on this new platform, but I won’t be upset if you choose to unsubscribe – if your inbox is anything like mine, it takes drastic measures to deal with. It's the only way to be sure (about your inbox.) But if you do stick around, I’ve got some new things planned that I’m very excited about. Especially one new project that I'm cooking up right now. More...
Multimedia story, interactive entertainment, and creative technology. Contents include neurodivergent creativity, careful disorderliness, willful misreadings, and imperfectionism.