Bienvenido!
After 5 years in New York I have moved to warmer and sunnier pastures in southern Florida and thus a refresh of my website. I’ve recently joined the faculty at the University of Miami’s School of...
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Introducing UM’s SoC New Faculty
UM’s School of Communication welcomed 4 new faculty this academic year, and the South Florida Business Journal was kind enough to consider us and our research and creative interests as integral to...
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Humans vs. Mosquitoes at DCGames
Clay Ewing and I ran Humans vs. Mosquitoes at this year’s DC Games Festival held in West Potomac Park (just south of Lincoln Memorial and west of MLK Memorial). It was a pretty nice backdrop with the...
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Humans vs. Mosquitoes to attack Come Out & Play San Francisco!
Humans vs. Mosquitoes is making its way to a third outdoor games festival this year. After creating quite a commotion at Come Out and Play in New York this summer, HvM will be buzzing about SoMA...
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UM launching MFA in Interactive Media in 2013
It’s official, the University of Miami is launching a new MFA in Interactive Media program starting in the 2012-13 academic year. There’s also an Interactive Media minor for undergraduates. I know I’m...
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Pouring on the Queso at www.conque.so
Clay Ewing, my game design partner, has just launched a pilot for his latest project, Queso. I just finished working on a logo that I believe complements the project and will appeal to its target...
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Tying the Knot? There’s an app for that.
I remember when I was in undergrad a team of classmates and I made a wedding planning app for a friend, who had just started a side business. Back then there were no smartphones and web apps were far...
View ArticleVideo highlighting The New Challenge Finalists 2012
I feel very fortunate to be among the finalists who received seed money from The New School’s The New Challenge. This video captures the essence of what TNS is achieving by providing its students with...
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Cops & Rubbers Goes Dutch via Hivnieuws
Ejay de Wit, a Dutch reporter, interviewed Rachel Thomas from Open Society Foundation and me at the International AIDS Conference (IAC2012) for an article in Hivnieuws. Thanks to the article Hivnieuws...
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Forbes & NPR Support ROC United’s fight for fare wages
We all enjoy eating out. Unfortunately, the workers who cook, prepare, and serve our food suffer from poverty wages, a lack of basic benefits like paid sick days, and often have little or no chance to...
View ArticleSummer 2013 Conference Schedule
This summer I will be presenting my game-related work at Games+Learning+Society, Games for Change, Allied Media Conference, and DiGRA. Please let me know if you’ll be at any of these conferences or...
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Creating Crowdsourcing Mobile App to Monitor Water Quality in Ghana
Article sourced from UM Interactive website (September 2013) With the global population booming and water-borne diseases on the rise, developing nations are faced with the serious challenge of...
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Put Yourself in a Sex Worker’s Shoes – and there might just be a condom in it
Now everyone can put themselves in the shoes of a sex worker – just don’t get caught with a condom in your shoe like Naomi here. Cops and Rubbers is now available for free PDF download or you can...
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Extreme Candy wins Best Game at Global Game Jam!
I teamed up with Clay Ewing (@claytical), Joel Acosta (@LoseTV), and Brian Deltoro in this year’s Global Game Jam from January 24-26. FIU’s Game Developers Guild kindly hosted us and got sponsors to...
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Vanity 2.0 now available
In Fall 2013 Clay Ewing and I went back and did some tweaking to the original Vanity game. Some of the changes were to make the gameplay more user friendly, like eliminating the moles all together and...
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UM Interactive Media MFA Among Princeton Review’s Top Graduate Game Design...
The School of Communications Interactive Media Master of Fine Arts program has earned a No. 24 ranking on The Princeton Review’s 2014 list of the best graduate schools to study video game design. The...
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Make a Move (“Toma El Paso”) is officially available on The Game Crafter
For those who have been following my Gaming the Immigration System project and the status of Make a Move (Toma El Paso in Spanish), I’m happy to announce that the game has been translated into Spanish...
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Invoking the Pause selects “Games for the Caribbean Climate” as 2014 Grant...
I’m pleased to announce that my proposal for “Games for a Caribbean Climate” – joint with Red Cross Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Reference Center (CADRIM) and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate...
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Cops & Rubbers video is now live!
Have you played Cops & Rubbers? Watch this video to learn more about my Cops & Rubbers game project with Open Society Foundations’ Public Health and Rights Project, which is based on OSF’s...
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SIGGRAPH DAC Aesthetics of Gameplay exhibit of indie games available online
In early 2014, the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community (DAC) launched the Aesthetics of Gameplay online exhibition. Ian Bogost captures what this exhibition aims to showcase in his article entitled...
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