Spring wrap-up

Whew. I feel like the last half of spring was quite a sprint! Only now coming up for air enough to post a little update. Several terrific events happened post GDC that I’ll mention: AnyKey went to PAX East again where we got to spend a great weekend in the diversity lounge hanging out with…

Twitch talk

It’s no small thing when the platform you’ve been studying for quite a few years invites you in to give a talk and leaves it pretty open as to what you speak about. The invite said “We like to hear about how successful individuals got to where they are today and what they’re up to…

Lecture at Swedish Technical Museum

Having lived in Sweden for many, many years I’m always thrilled when I get a chance to go back to my second home :)  This summer I not only got to go to DreamHack again (my 4th time!) but started off that trip with a stop in Stockholm to give a lecture. I was fortunate…

Twitch Creative launch interview

I was happy to get a chance to talk to Nora Young again over at the CBC’s Spark program about the recent launch of Twitch Creative. There have been a lot of interesting channels percolating on the platform that go beyond the bounds of strict gameplay and Twitch seems to be slowly integrating them. From…

Old (2013) live-streaming lecture

Found a recording of a talk I gave on live-streaming back in 2013. Definitely some tweaks I’d make to the argument now, but a lot of the core stuff still holds for my current thinking. McGill Participatory Condition conference lecture.