Fiction author and contract writing and design consultant; currently full-time Lead Designer for HumaNature Studios (not the Nexon one that died -- name coincidence) in Berkeley, CA working in long-term partnership on youth-focused MMOs for Dreamworks. Eight years' experience in the games industry. Focus on storytelling, world building, and programmer-artist-licensor-publisher translation and peacekeeping; variety of skills including Photoshop, Illustrator, programming (light), scripting, databases, web design, music composition and arrangement, sound formatting. Always in search of tasty tasty learning opportunities.

I recently completed editing an essay collection with Erik Bethke called _Settlers of the New Virtual Worlds_. If you're interested in the massive online space and its implications in the lives of modern and future gamers, check it out. We have top-level contributors including Julian Dibbell, Raph Koster, Sean F. Kane, and more. Go to www.bettereula.com for more details, and www.bettereula.com/wp/settlers for links to advance praise for the BetterEULA Project and links to the book on Amazon.

For further information, please see my website, http://www.philomathgames.com . Nextcat has a kind of weird way of listing credits that would make my full profile too bloated -- for a full CV (at least when I can manage to update it), see this one on my website.