(2005)

In 2005 I founded The Independent Gaming Source (TIGSource.com) as a community website for indie game developers focused on the “arthouse” side of game development, because most of the communities I encountered at that time were centered around making casual games and I wanted to see indie games take more creative risks. TIGSource went on to become the birthplace of a generation of innovative indie titles, including Fez, Spelunky, Papers Please, and Minecraft, and was named as a “best of the web” site by such mainstream news sources as Newseek and The Guardian.

(2010)

In 2010, after a successful Kickstarter campaign (the campaign was featured as a "project we love" on the front page of Kickstarter.com), I set out to travel long term on a shoestring budget with the goal of making little videogames and "notgames" along the way about the things I was seeing and experiencing. The idea was to use videogames as a kind of travel writing, mainly because I had never seen anyone try to do that before. Gametrekking.com continues to host the interactive creations and travel writing that emerged from that project.

(Prototype in Progress)

An experimental site which aggregates critical writing about videogames for search purposes, and performs quantitative analysis of language, social metrics, and backlink data in an effort to discern trends and tendencies within the space, and to highligh underepresented voices. The current prototype was partially supported by funds from UCSC's IDEA Hub.