About

I’m a 26 year old video game designer, programmer and web developer from Illinois. I graduated from UAT with a Bachelor of Arts in Game Design. I am currently working as an independent/freelancer. I work primarily with PHP, jQuery and Objective C, but am familiar with an extensive number of languages.

I’m a strong supporter of web standards and rabid consumer of Penguin Mints.

I have a passion for adventure and puzzle games, and am a long time MMO player. Like many in my field, I started young. Oregon Trail on my second grade classes Apple II got me hooked. After I got my first PC and discovered MYST and LucasArts classics like Monkey Island and Loom, I realized that as much fun as these worlds were to play in, it would be so much cooler to build them.

You can find me on Twitter and Google.

Contacting Me

I prefer to be reached via Twitter for general questions, or email for support or work-related inquiries.

Random Facts

I ran an e-zine in the mid 90s for WorldsAway, an early graphical MUD on Compuserve.
I’ve previously held news editor positions with Stratics and RPGDot.com.
I wrote for Lockergnome.
Chris Pirillo once referred to me as one of the “better web designers on the planet.”
I was a programmer on UOX3, a server emulator for the MMORPG Ultima Online.
I was a GM on RyNet Worlds, the most popular Ultima Online shard of it’s time.
I built a proprietary MUD server in the early 90s, and operated a fairly successful fantasy world using it. It was a fun distraction from my homework at the time.
In 2007 I developed a Twitter bridge for Second Life, and later added support for Jaiku, del.icio.us and several other social media sites. It was highly regarded by popular blog sites like Mashable and Read/Write Web.
I was asked by InformationWeek and Dr. Dobb’s Journal to speak at a Second Life conference of the “best gadget makers in Second Life.”
I have a makeshift shrine of monkey skulls and human hair in my closet, dedicated to Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer. OK, that one was a lie. Still, I think they’re awesome.

About This Site

My site was established in August, 2000, and was assigned ISSN #1948-9560.

It runs on the fabulous WordPress platform, and is hosted with Linode. It’s running Ubuntu 9.10 on a Linode 360 image right now. Pages are served up using lighttpd.

Legal

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