I am an ex-MSFT bum.
I was a proud member of
Microsoft's
Research's Virtual Worlds Group (now Social Computing Group) which did cool
work and was throttled in the cradle by politics.
On June 15, 1999 I returned to independence.
I was recently selected to participate in the
2002 Clarion West Writers Workshop.
These are some Post-MSFT projects:
Synopsis of Book.
Browse around:
My Computer Games
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- Chipwits. (designed with Mike Johnston), 1984
Macintosh (published by Brainpower), 1985 C64 (Epyx), 1985 AppleII
(Brainpower)
- The King of Chicago, 1986 Macintosh, 1987
Amiga, 1988 AppleIIGS (all Cinemaware)
- Free D.C.!, 1991 MS-DOS (Cineplay Interactive)
The Battle of Interactive Fiction (A talk given at
the '89 Computer Game Developer's Conference)
Working notes for my talk at the Spring '95 American Assoc. of AI Symposium
on Interactive Story Systems:
Working notes: MS Word Version
Working notes: HTML Version (missing
some figures).
I build Birthday Helmets with my daughter,
Margaret.
A few things I've done in my life:
- Taught 5th grade
- Studied Joyce at Oxford as an academic tourist
- Soloed a sailplane and crashed a homemade hang glider
- Hitchhiked around England and Europe
- Ridden a bike from Minneapolis to Philadelphia
- Have a delightful 15-year old daughter,
Margaret.
- Spent 10 years as an independent game developer and
designer
- Fathered a wonderful daughter, Margaret
- Written a few unpublished novels. (My current one,
Hel's Bet, will be published, damn it.)
- Worked at Microsoft since May, 1993
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Any book by P. G. Wodehouse
- CJ Cherryh
- David Brin
- Iain Banks
- Greg Egan
- Mark Leyner
Some of my buddies singing opera at Weird Lake.
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