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CITY MOTION: Transforming Cities One Game at a Time

CITY MOTION: Transforming Cities One Game at a Time — A board game that reimagines urban spaces for a walkable future.

Climatebase Fellowship and Vetting a Carshare

Climatebase Fellowship and Vetting a Carshare — From carshare idea to founding?

Uprising Chess

Uprising Chess — the pawns rise up

Class Warfare Chess Prototype

Class Warfare Chess Prototype —

Building a Virtual Black Rock City

Building a Virtual Black Rock City — When Burning Man announced that they were canceling the party in the desert this year, they hinted that they wanted to try to make an online Black Rock City experience. But as others have mentioned, ...

Quantum Multiverse Bifurcator Installation

Quantum Multiverse Bifurcator Installation — For the past few months, I've been working on a series of interconnected projects and thought experiments centered around the concept of the quantum multiverse, a theoretical interpretation of quantum mechanics that implies that many ...

Gmail Auto-Responder for AI Robot Party Game

Gmail Auto-Responder for AI Robot Party Game — I'm a big fan of immersive social games! Last fall, I built an escape room for the engineering social at my company. For the three prior organizations I've worked for, I've also run a social ...

Experiential Puzzle Narrative

Experiential Puzzle Narrative — I recently completed a long-time dream of building my own experiential puzzle narrative, also known as an escape room. I ran it as an engineering social (not this) at my current place of employment, Color. ...

Indiana Jones and the Elusive Promo Code

Indiana Jones and the Elusive Promo Code — In a lot of ways, my brother and I share a lot of the same opinions, but there are a few subjects where we disagree vehemently. One of the places where our difference of opinion ...

Star Wars Themed Settlers of Catan

Star Wars Themed Settlers of Catan — I have been wanting to get a Settlers of Catan game for ourselves ever since I played it for the first time a few months ago. It looked like an incredibly simple game setup so ...

Paper Chess Set

Paper Chess Set — I've recently started playing chess with the students at the after-school program where I volunteer. It's fun, but we only have one chess set so only two students get to play at a time. Since ...

Procrastinating with a Time Optimization Game

Procrastinating with a Time Optimization Game — I've got to admit, I'm majorly busy at this time of year. But today, I'm deciding to procrastinate by writing a post on—ironically enough—a game about optimizing your use of time! The Background If you've ...

#ActsOfSuperness Twitter Game

#ActsOfSuperness Twitter Game — Three days ago at about 3 a.m. I woke up with an idea to make people be nicer to each other. I know it might sound kind of corny, but I wanted to build a ...

Quantum Gambling Game

Quantum Gambling Game — Have you ever heard of quantum computing? Know what makes it so special? Well, many scientists (and their funding agencies) are hoping that quantum computing's secrets just might help get them rich. I can't promise ...

A Simple Anagrammer

A Simple Anagrammer — A while back, I wrote a little python code that takes in a word and spits out a list of anagram words. It kind of takes the fun out of generating anagrams, but it puts ...