Projects

Projects with pages here:

• New Interfaces for Textual Expression (my masters thesis project at ITP)
• APxD mkII: Autonomous Parapoetic Device
• Legend of the Tomb of Fate: a generative old-school BBS door-style dungeon crawler
• twbasic: a BASIC interpreter for Twitter

Other projects in my portfolio:

• Earl Grey, a game about word play, co-written and developed with Rob Dubbin (Baf’s Guide review)
• Frotzophone: making music with interactive fiction
• Byte Organ (with Andy Doro): making the structure of data audible
• Critical Responses to Cave of Time: What would a Choose Your Own Adventure book look like without the choice? What would it look like with too much choice?
• twitter.com/everyword: twittering every word in the English language (or, at least, every word from an extensive English word list). At the current rate of one word every thirty minutes, the project will be completed in about six years.
• Analog Text Display: an experiment in alternate text display and encoding technologies
• Texty Text: one experimental text a day during the month of February, 2008
• The Invention of Murder: a Big Game
• Rewordable: freely available word-building card game

Game design-related one-offs and bagatelles:

• Sexy Windsurfing, an automated agent for playing popular word game Apples to Apples
• Subwoofer Tactics (with C. Anderson Miller): a game of ear protection and loud noises
• Humans Hanging Out (with Rob Dubbin, Jelani John and Tim Gardner): a conversation game wherein a robot must convince humans that it has passed the Turing test (made for the 2010 Global Game Jam)

Here are some cool projects I’ve helped create as a collaborator or hired hand:

• Tagnic, a Twitter game about building a friend folksonomy (as programmer)
• Kriegspiel, a videogame adaptation of a war game desiged by Guy Debord (as programmer)
• Kitchen Caravan, an online cooking show and food blog (as programmer)

For information on other stuff I’ve been working on, see my portfolio site or my ITP blog. I also occasionally upload video of works in progress to Vimeo.

Press:

• Frotzophone: Rocketboom, Networked Music Review, The Fiction Circus
• Autonomous Parapoetic Device: Make: Blog, Grand Text Auto (Frank Lantz: “It’s a suspicious device.”)
• New Interfaces for Textual Expression: Grand Text Auto (Ian Bogost: “These are just excellent.”)